lemontree

http://www.indiareacts.com/nati2.asp?recno=3420
US wants Peshawar corps commander out

9 August 2005: The United States has put pressure on Pakistan to change its Peshawar corps commander, Lieutenant General Safdar Hussein, and some of his subordinate officers, alleging that they were aiding in the regrouping of the Taliban in Afghanistan in the run up to the crucial parliamentary polls in autumn, but General Parvez Musharraf has conveyed it would be difficult to act in this manner, but would try to meet American concerns.

Just before leaving command of the coalition forces in Afghanistan, US Lieutenant General David Barno wrote a damaging report against the Peshawar Corps, saying that its troops were increasingly mingling with the Taliban remnants, and that they had been putting up highly skilled infantry battles with his forces in the past eleven months, describing them, and said that captured weaponry, ranging from AK-47s, mine-laying equipment, to SAMs, all bore Pakistani ordnance markings.

In April, Hussein had clashed with Barno’s statement about probable Pakistani army action in North Waziristan against terrorist networks, calling it a “figment of his imagination”, and now, the Peshawar Corps commander has cried off from anti-Al-Qaeda/ Taliban operations in South Waziristan as well, saying that troops are facing great hostility from local tribals.

Diplomats said Hussein has refused to carry out military action against hardcore Islamists and Taliban cadres, because of the growing anti-Pakistan tendencies of the locals, and he has communicated that officers of the Peshawar Corps would like that Pakistan act for its own interests instead of those of others, hinting at the US.

The US, on the other hand, has been insisting that either Pakistan change the Peshawar corps commander or permit American forces to permanently operate from South Waziristan, and presently, it has three mainly intelligence-gathering stations in the area. Previously, Hussein has even refused joint action by US and Pakistani forces in the region infested with Al-Qaeda and Taliban cadres.

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Cheers!...on the rocks!!

platinum786

Do you have a credible source for that report?
Note i find it hard to beleive that the BBC or CNN would ignore such a headline

lemontree

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...ow/1196217.cms
'Pakistan still exporting terror'
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2005 12:57:01 AM ]
WASHINGTON: A prominent Pakistani leader has embarrassed both Washington and Islamabad by disclosing that Pakistan's military government continues to run terrorist training camps and is infiltrating militants into Afghanistan despite professing to be a US ally in the war on terrorism.

"The rulers are not only trying to deceive the US and the West, but also hoodwinking the entire nation. They must give the nation the identities of the men being moved from Waziristan to militant camps in Mansehra. This is hypocrisy," the Pakistani media quoted Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Secretary General Maulana Fazlur Rehman as saying on Sunday.

Mansehra is the site of one of the alleged terrorist training camps which India claims is being run by the Pakistani establishment. It's existence has also been reported in the Pakistani media. Terror suspects arrested in the west in recent weeks have also disclosed they attended militant training camps in Mansehra, which Pakistan's military government says does not exist.

But the Maulana has said not only does the military run camps but it is also transporting extremists from Waziristan in private vehicles and supervising their trouble-free entry into Afghanistan. Afghan and US officials have spoken in recent times about well-armed and trained militants reappearing on Afghanistan's borders with Pakistan and inflicting heavy casualties.

US administration officials have privately begun to express doubts about Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terrorism although the White House and the State Department publicly continue to certify Gen. Musharraf's bonafides on this count. But American media and analysts have become more skeptical.
"Gen Musharraf seems to invest far more energy in explaining his government's tolerance of Taliban activities than he does in trying to shut them down... (His) aid has been frustratingly selective. He has been an intermittent collaborator in the fight against international terrorism rather than a fully committed ally," the New York Times observed in an editorial last week.

The spurt in extremist infiltration into Afghanistan has also coincided with the spike in terrorists crossing the LoC into Jammu and Kashmir. State department officials did not respond to calls seeking comments on the Maulana's disclosures.

The Maulana's decision to rat on Musharraf appears to be the result of the widening rift in the so-called Military-Mullah alliance that has underpinned Pakistani politics for several years. Under pressure from the U.S and U.K, Musharraf has begun to crack down on Islamic extremists who form the support base of the religious parties, even as the west as put the skids on their travels.

Maulana Fazlur himself was recently deported unceremoniously from UAE with the Pakistan government unable to anything about it. Some months back another prominent politico-religious figure Maulana Samiul Haq was sent packing from Belgium even though he was leading a Pakistani parliamentary delegation.

The result seems to be a public schism between the mullahs and the military, evident in Fazlur Rehman's suggestion that the military is still using terrorism as a state policy while trying to hang the same chanrges on the religious right. "We will have to openly tell the world whether we want to support jihadis or crack down on them. We can't afford to be hypocritical anymore," he said.

generation_x

Man Pakistanis are complicated

VayuSena

Pakistanis post articles from Indian newspapers that criticze the Indian government or military all the time and calim taht htey are authentic...but when someone posts an article from teh same newspapers that criticizes Pakistan, all the Paksitanis say taht it is crap and that the news papers are lieing...what is this double standard?

Hari_Om

IMO “India Reacts” is not exactly the most kosher of sources and I would approach their reporting with caution.

Having said that there are enough reports around of a spat between Lt. Gen Safdar Hussein and Lt. Gen David Barno :

War and peace in Waziristan

US military claim angers Pakistan

A spat added to by Afghan National Army Chief of Operations Lt. Gen. Sher Muhammad Karimi :

Row intensifies over operations in border area

Spat with Afghanistan is unnecessary

That brings up the question has Barno / The American’s asked for the removal of Lt. Gen Hussein ?

There certainly are grounds for speculation in that direction given the allegations of infiltration of Terrorists from Pakistan into Afghanistan but that is a step away from actually asking for his removal an event for which I have seen no other confirmatory source. Then again there are also precedents of the American's demanding and obtaining personnel changes in Pakistan.

Wait and watch..........

Aryan

"Indiareacts"! You must be running out of anti-pakistani propaganda to resort to going to them.

Britain warns Pakistan against strained ties
MI-6 spies on Dawood daughter’s reception (LOL)
Kickbacks pull support for pipeline deal (talking about the Iran-India pipeline deal)

If you check any of those sources, none of them actually have a shred of evidence cited, other than "defence experts", or "government sources". None of the claims are mentioned in any other article or news source anywhere around the world, so it makes you wonder what contacts the guy who runs the website has.

Neither the contact section or the about us section names any names, I bet the site is just a one man show.

lemontree

I agree with you on that. If Jung can survive so can "India Reacts"

lemontree

Its actually run by a guy (some sikh chap) who owns a travel agency. I wonder if he ever gets time to do his real business.