Lest we forget Paki has been playing the great game since 1813. (USA was involved in the war of 1812, the second American Revolution, when Paki started playing Great Game in the next year 1813. ) The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907.
I suspect the Great Game never quit for Pakistan.
And that means they have been playing for 9 or 10 generations.
USA was shooting cannon at the British in the Great Lakes when they first started the Great Game.
The Paki papers don't call them 'terrorists', they call them 'miscreants'.( Maybe thats a branch of Shia? )
Current value of the Great Game $10 billion usd, what the USA has paid Paki.
Pakistan "not looking for Bin Laden."
Paradigm shift:
Musharraf left Paki at the start of a major push of the Army against the Taliban.
That means something very good, very bad or nothing, which isn't significant.
How ever the paradigm are of interest, advance warning.
Really Good: He left the country to turn loose even more crack troops ( His protection Army ) against Tali.
Really Bad: Something wicked this way comes.
Nothing: CIA gave him some Intel about assassination attempt, eaiser to protect him removed from the threat.
Ok 3 in place lets set back and watch what develops.
We foresee a huge great surge.
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Baitullah warns govt against entering his area
By Alamgir Bhittani
TANK, Jan 21: As troops continued their attacks on militants' positions in South Waziristan Agency, chief of the so-called Pakistan Tehreek-i-Taliban Baitullah Mehsud warned of serious repercussions if the military operations were not stopped.
A man, who identified himself on telephone as Maulvi Umar and claimed to be Baitullah's spokesman, said: "The government wants to enter the Mehsud area by force. But it must take into account the consequences of such a harsh action."
He accused security forces of 'killing innocent people' and 'damaging their homes' and warned that the government would have to "pay a heavy price".
Sources said that security forces shelled the house of militant leader Asmatullah Shaheen in Khech Kali in the Frontier Region of Jandola on Monday, injuring a woman and a child. Local people said that the building had been hit by four artillery shells.
Several houses were damaged in attacks in Makin, Birwand, Chegmalai and Wala in the Mehsud area, damaging several houses. In Makin, a shell hit a house, killing a man and wounding another.
Meanwhile, a jirga of the Mehsud tribe has urged the government to free seven supporters of Baitullah and halt the military operation. The jirga was held in Tank on Monday.
The jirga criticised the damage caused by the shelling and urged the government to initiate efforts for a ceasefire. The jirga also called for lifting a ban on supply of food to the Mehsud area.
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Mehsud's close aide arrested
KARACHI: Police have arrested militant commander Baitullah Mehsud's close associate Younas Mehsud, Daily Times learnt on Monday. Sources said that the police, after arresting Younas, had shifted him to an unknown place for investigation. They said the police had also recovered weapons and explosive materials from Younas who is a 'right hand man of Baitullah Mehsud' and brother of his spokesman, Wahab Mehsud. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C01%5C22%5Cstory_22-1-2008_pg1_4
http://snipurl.com/1xyqz
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Criminal identity of the Pashtun.
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Originally published at https://warintel.blogspot.com/2008/01/paki-and-great-game.html on January 21, 2008.