What Does Pakistan Want?

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 1:46am |

By Steve Coll, Daily Comment @ newyorker.com, March 29, 2012

Lede: A secret memo based on a briefing by General Ashfaq Kayani may help us understand.

[....] In late February, I travelled to Pakistan and met with a number of military officers there, including several senior ones. They explained how they saw, from their side, the rise and collapse of the strategic dialogue with Washington. [....]

Some of the basics of the Pakistan Army’s arguments about the Afghan war and the struggle against Al Qaeda-influenced terrorist groups are contained in a twelve-page document called “Ten Years Since 9/11: Our Collective Experience (Pakistan’s Experience).” The document, labelled “Secret,” is below; it has not previously been published [....]

URL:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/03/classified-document-our-collective-experience.html