Bad day for war on terrorThe questions to which answers must be sought are: one, why were not the tribal elders able to pre-empt the attack, whether by foreign or Pakistani militants?The Nato-led forces and the American military have between them completely failed to crush the insurgency. They and the host government have nothing to show by way of concrete results. The only point on which they seem united is to blame Pakistan for their own failure to develop a comprehensive politico-military strategy that could give results. In spite of having the most modern war equipment, the coalition has failed to check the two-way infiltration across the borderIslamabad has rightly protested to the coalition forces for the attack on the Shawal checkpost in North Waziristan, killing one soldier. Pakistan must tell its partners in the war on terror that such incidents do not serve the common cause and could, besides outraging the public opinion in Pakistan, derail the war on terror.
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