Who’s really harboring al Qaida?

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Pakistan and Afghanistan

Everyone’s pointing fingers at Pakistan, said the Islamabad Nation in an editorial. Just because most of the young men arrested in Britain on suspicion of planning to blow up airplanes were of Pakistani extraction doesn’t mean actual Pakistanis had anything to do with the plot. In fact, Pakistan is doing its utmost to root out terrorists. Pakistan’s security forces and the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) forces have been fighting in our Waziristan province for months. Hundreds of civilians, militants, and military personnel have been killed. Yet these battles “have not convinced Kabul, or perhaps even Washington, of the genuineness of our cooperation in the War on Terror.” Afghanistan keeps accusing us of harboring or encouraging al Qaida and Taliban elements. Our neighbor should look inside its own borders. Just last weekend, U.S. and Afghan forces bragged that they had killed 70 Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan. Obviously, then, that is where those fighters reside.

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