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Pakistan’s Betrayal

December 21, 2006 | By Sniper One |

President Bush needs to come to the realization that Pakistan is no longer with us in the fight on Terrorism.

QUETTA, PAKISTAN — At a time when the Taliban is making its strongest push in years to regain influence and territory across the border in Afghanistan, this mountain-ringed provincial capital has become an increasingly brazen hub of activity by the Islamist militia.

Quetta serves as a place of rest and refuge for Taliban fighters between battles, a funneling point for cash and armaments, a fertile recruiting ground and a sometime meeting point for the group’s fugitive leaders, say aid workers, local officials, diplomats and others.

“Everybody is here,” said Mahmood Khan Achakzai, a Quetta-based member of Pakistan’s National Assembly, describing the routine comings and goings of senior Taliban commanders in Quetta, the capital of the Pakistani province of Baluchistan.

The city of Quetta, bottom left of the map, is several hundred miles from the Waziristan areas that Al Qaeda is known to haunt. Quetta has a road that goes directly to the Afghan city of Kandahar.

President Bush needs to make it clear to the Pakistanis that having the Taliban and Al Qaeda running free in their country is completely unacceptable. If Pakistan is going to provide the terrorists with safe haven, they are no longer our friends or allies in the Global War on Terror.

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