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ry as its own in Afghanistan. iban-run state on its border will In the last three months as the a former Central Intelligence
Jane Perlez, in an article in no doubt embolden Taliban and Taliban swept across Afghani- Agency (CIA) station chief in
The New York Times said that other Islamist terrorists in Paki- stan, the Pakistani military waved Pakistan. But, he warned, the
Pakistan’s already shaky reputa- stan itself, said Perlez. a surge of new fighters across Pakistanis should watch what
tion in the West is likely to plum- Pakistan was ostensibly the border from sanctuaries in- they wish for. “If the Afghan Tal-
met now, as the Taliban take over America’s partner in the war side Pakistan, tribal leaders have iban becomes leaders of a pari-
Afghanistan. Calls to sanction against Al Qaeda and the Tali- said. It was a final coup de grace ah state, which is likely, Pakistan
Pakistan have already circulated ban. Its military won tens of bil- to the American-trained Af- will find itself tethered to them.”
on social media. Moreover, amid lions of dollars in American aid ghan security forces, said Perlez. Nobody knows how the situ-
the absence of foreign financing, over the last two decades, even as “The Pakistanis and the In- ation will unfold in the days and
Pakistan will have to rely on a ji- Washington acknowledged that ter-Services Intelligence (ISI) weeks and months to come, but
hadist drug trade encouraged by much of the money disappeared think they have won in Afghan- everyone is watching Kabul with
the new rulers in Kabul. A Tal- into unaccounted sinkholes. istan,” said Robert L Grenier, caution and suspicion.

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