| Skipping through a very interesting Pakistani editorial on the ramifications of the recent amnesty ... |
But the problem with this approach is that local abettors like Nek Muhammad are actually a part of the Taliban-Al Qaeda network. As disclosed by PTV, Nek Muhammad was commandant of a guerrilla training camp in Afghanistan before he decided to take his trainees, most of them from Chechnya and Uzbekistan, to South Waziristan, to use as a launching pad for attacks inside Afghanistan. Talking to a newspaper reporter after the ‘pardon’, Nek Muhammad still swore allegiance to ‘Amirul Momineen’ Mullah Omar rather than Pakistan — because the Taliban leader was ‘the caliph of all Muslims.' |