Taliban Arrests in Pakistan Amid Talk Of Policy Shift
Mullah Abdul Salam Mir and Mullah Muhammad, the "shadow Governors" of the northern Afghan provinces of Kunduz and Baghlan respectively, were captured in recent days inside Pakistan.
In a stark illustration of the problems facing domestic terrorism in Pakistan, a bomb blast yesterday at a mosque in the north-western tribal belt killed 29 people, including some militants, and injured about 50 others. The explosion tore through the mosque in the Aka Khel area of Khyber, a local official said.
Islamabad has always been viewed as a Reluctant Partner of the West in Afghanistan, as it was believed to be Secretly continuing to support the Taliban leadership and its host is a Pakistani soil, despite officially breaking with the Militant Movement after the 9 / 11 attacks.
But this week it was revealed that Pakistani authorities had arrested the deputy leader of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Karachi and, when news of the arrests two other Taliban emerged, many analysts argued that a new policy in Islamabad could be Crystallising.
A more Cynical interpretation suggested that, instead of turning its back on the Taliban, Pakistan was simply pressuring them to the Negotiating table.Read More Story,http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/19/pakistan-taliban-arrests
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