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Pakistan Demands That Tribal Leaders Police Their Areas, US Merely Wants Them Dead
By therearenosunglasses.com and preliminary comments by Peter Chamberlain in yellow.[This short report outlines the whole problem and the main point of contention between US and Pakistani generals--plans for Pakistan's tribesmen. Pakistan is creating a legally binding arrangement with the tribes, where they police their own areas against the penetration of criminal foreigners, "anti-state or anti-social elements," as well as to protect "roads, government installations and officials." The tribal system will be advanced throughout the region, as the representatives of government in the now lawless region. America's problem with this is that it is the exact opposite of their preferred solution, the total militarization of the zone. To that end, US assets are continually deployed against these pro-government tribal leaders, in an effort to turn them against the (Pakistani) government and to expand the insurgency. (Using the TTP)
(Additionally the drone strikes and TTP also kill a lot of the pro-government tribal leaders. So what we are seeing is a destabilization of Pakistan from about 2006 by the USA, and the Pakistanis close "cooperation" with USA security objectives makes it that easier)
One would think that the US Army would be proud to support this operation, since it is Pakistan's application of its own "Anbar solution" to its tribal problems. In Anbar, Iraq, the US military bought peace with the Sunni militants by buying them off and empowering them as the local law in their areas of operations. This solution cannot be allowed for Pakistan, since US planners have always planned to expand the war there.]
The military operations by the Pakistan military is costly, domestically unpopular....and more often than not creates more recruits for the element of the Taliban created by the USA to join them and fight the Pakistani military......which obviously will exhaust the military and damage moral and weaken its cohesion given that 25% of the military is Pathan.
Instead of fighting ceaseless campaigns against the Pathans in that region, and trying to figure out who is the bad and good Pathan.......the Pakistan military is better disposed to settle for the locals to police themselves as was the original intention of the British Raj, and Pakistan governments up to 1990 in the FEDERALLY ADMINISTERED TRIBAL AREAS.
That is the sensible long term course that should be seriously and earnestly undertaken.
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(PTI) The Pakistani Army will withdraw from trouble-torn Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), close to the Afghan border when its tribal people are able to take up their responsibilities to combat terrorism, Army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has promised.
Addressing separate meetings of Ahmadzai Wazir and Mehsud tribes in Wana and Chegmalai areas of South Waziristan, Kayani said the army had played an important role in eradicating militancy and restoring peace in the region.
“The army will leave the area when tribesmen are capable of fulfilling their responsibilities,” Kayani was quoted as saying by Dawn.com.
Pakistan has deployed over 100,000 regular and paramilitary troops in FATA to flush out the Taliban from the area.
The army chief also blamed foreign elements for the situation in FATA, the report said.
Under the Frontier Crimes Regulations, tribal people have certain responsibilities, including protection of roads, government installations and officials and keep their areas clear of anti-state and anti-social elements, it noted.
The US has been pressuring Pakistan to crackdown on terrorists taking shelter in North Waziristan. Pakistan army had undertaken military operations to flush out terrorists from South Waziristan. However, Pakistan has been resisting similar operations in North Waziristan, saying it will not come under foreign pressure and decide when to carry out any military operation North Waziristan.
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