Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Arnaud de Borchgrave, a CSIS senior advisor, published a commentary in UPI International, "Pakistan: Favorable confusion."
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Arnaud de Borchgrave, a CSIS senior advisor, published a commentary in UPI International, "Pakistan: Favorable confusion."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Free elections in Pakistan Feb. 18 were to be the first step in bringing a dysfunctional nuclear power back to democratic stability. The preliminary first step was a deal with the pro-al-Qaida Taliban chief in the tribal areas. The new Pakistani army chief of staff, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani, and the "amir" of Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, agreed to a cease-fire, as well as the withdrawal of the Pakistani army from South Waziristan, one of the seven tribal agencies along the Afghan border (known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas).
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