deepak pace
DJ_DEE
Pakistan "just cannot afford to redeploy" large number of its troops from its 'wild' west to its eastern border with India in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks as such a move risks enhanced terrorist activities within the country, leading Pakistani newspapers warned on Sunday.
Pakistan "just cannot afford to redeploy any large number of its troops on the eastern border, leaving the 'wild' west in a free fall," Dawn newspaper said in an editorial amid reports that Islamabad has shifted some 20,000 troops from the troubled tribal areas to the international border with India.
The warning came as a suicide car bomb attack killed at least 30 people at a polling station in Buner district in North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
For Pakistan, the threat posed by terrorists operating out of Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) and from along the western border to the country's internal security and stability is no less tangible, the paper said, emphasising that Islamabad cannot afford to redeploy large number of its troops on the eastern border with India.
"Isn't that the area where the worlds best intelligence says the extremist militants are holed up in significant numbers and planning to strike targets everywhere? They cannot be allowed a breather at a time when military operations are ongoing to clear the area of their roguish presence.
This will serve no ones cause India or the West's," the leading English language newspaper said. "What happened in Mumbai defies all logic, unless derailing the composite dialogue between Islamabad and New Delhi is accepted as an overriding objective of the madness that was unleashed. This is one victory the terrorists must be denied," the editorial said.
Pakistan "just cannot afford to redeploy any large number of its troops on the eastern border, leaving the 'wild' west in a free fall," Dawn newspaper said in an editorial amid reports that Islamabad has shifted some 20,000 troops from the troubled tribal areas to the international border with India.
The warning came as a suicide car bomb attack killed at least 30 people at a polling station in Buner district in North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
For Pakistan, the threat posed by terrorists operating out of Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) and from along the western border to the country's internal security and stability is no less tangible, the paper said, emphasising that Islamabad cannot afford to redeploy large number of its troops on the eastern border with India.
"Isn't that the area where the worlds best intelligence says the extremist militants are holed up in significant numbers and planning to strike targets everywhere? They cannot be allowed a breather at a time when military operations are ongoing to clear the area of their roguish presence.
This will serve no ones cause India or the West's," the leading English language newspaper said. "What happened in Mumbai defies all logic, unless derailing the composite dialogue between Islamabad and New Delhi is accepted as an overriding objective of the madness that was unleashed. This is one victory the terrorists must be denied," the editorial said.
