By Ahmad Majidyar | AEI Online
(June 2010)
(June 2010)
Key points in this Outlook:
- Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan and al Qaeda have teamed up with Punjabi militant and sectarian groups to destabilize Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province.
- Although the militants have yet to assert the same control in southern Punjab that they did in Swat Valley or Waziristan, there are signs that such a scenario is possible.
- Counterterrorism, intelligence, and police operations are more likely to make inroads than outright military operations.
See Also: Press Release RAND 21 June 2010, Failed Strategy to Half Pakistan-Based Militant Groups Has Helped Lead to Rising Number of US Terror Plots; and report, Counterinsurgency in Pakistan. Phi Beta Iota: Pakistan has displaced Saudi Arabia as the primary sponsor of international terrorism (along with the Israeli Mossad that fills in when needed). The US is deliberately blind to this reality.
