Can the PPP face US pressure, PML fissures, TTL Pakistan bombs & RAW agents?

"US would not countenance the FATA region to be used for mounting attacks on Pakistan itself, Afghanistan and the West" Negroponte

It was easy for the PPP to sit in the opposition and blame everything on the previous government. Now that the PPP is in power, its alliance with the PMLN is in tatters, and the tentative peace deal with the Tehrik a Taliban Pakistan is was shattered by a suicide bomb in Peshawar. The Americans have opened their familiar Indian playbook and have started chanting "Do More" once again.

Baitullah Mehsud is obviously a foreign agent and saboteur. The Afghan Taliban have disassociated themselves from Baitullah Mehsud and his organization.

The rise of Baitullah Mehsud has nothing to do with the history of Afghanistan or President Musharraf. Mehsud is simply an agent whose goal is to listen to his masters in New Delhi and Kabul

Mehsud has no intention of allowing peace in Pakistan. These are agents of RAW whose only aim in life it to bring chaos into Pakistan and to destabilize Pakistan. These are the same people who killed Benazir Bhutto and tried to assassinate Pervez Musharraf. Those who blamed the previous government are now tasked to eliminate the root cause of terror. Putting Kashmir on the back burner and letting future generation deal with it is not the answer. As soon as Kashmir is given up, they start claiming parts of Pakistan as it exists today. Appeasement is not the answer to RAW. Aggressive defense is.

There has to be a massive campaign to detoxify these people. Some of the disgruntled rebels without a cause were withdrawn from Kashmir, are now active in Pakistan.

Pakistan faced Khad retaliatory bombs during the occupation of Afghanistan by the USSR. After that there were no bombs in Pakistan. After the Taliban were removed from Kabul and Mr. Karzai took over, the bombing resumed. Some of the attacks may not have been actually suicide bombs, but the government said that they were.

To eliminate Baitullah Mehsud, the Afghan government and its sponsors in New Delhi have to to be reigned in. Mr. Karzai is the puppet. He has allowed RAW to proliferate Afghanistan. At one point a low level RAW agent scolded Mr. Karzai within earshot of other people. Unless and until Mr. Karzai and Indian agents are not removed from Afghanistan there will be no peace in Pakistan.

US asks Pakistan to live up to 'war on terror' commitment

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States has said it wanted Pakistan to live up to its commitment of urgently bringing security under control in its remote tribal areas allegedly used as safe haven by Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.

The call came amid worries in Washington that the new coalition government led by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, which is negotiating with a Taliban commander, may strike a deal with militants and undermine a long "war on terror" partnership.

Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Islamabad recognized that bringing the mountainous and unpoliced Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) under control was an urgent priority for Pakistan's own sake.

"But let me be clear: we will not be satisfied until all the violent extremism emanating from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas is brought under control," he said Monday at a forum of the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy.

"It is unacceptable for extremists to use those areas to plan, train for, or execute attacks against Afghanistan, Pakistan, or the wider world," he said. "Their ongoing ability to do so is a barrier to lasting security, both regionally and internationally."

Negroponte said Pakistan's government "must bring the frontier area under its control as quickly as possible," pointing out that Washington was prepared to provide "appropriate assistance" in order to achieve that objective.

Gilani's government, formed after the backers of key war on terror ally President Pervez Musharraf were defeated in elections in February, has pledged to completely overhaul Islamabad's counter terrorism pursuit.

It has been trying to reach a peace deal with a Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud accused of masterminding the slaying of former premier Benazir Bhutto in December.

Warlord Mehsud declared a unilateral truce with security forces in the lawless tribal regions last month after officials said the government had drafted a peace agreement with Islamic militants.

But the militant halted talks last week because the government refused to withdraw its troops from his area.

Negroponte warned that Americans "don't want to see the tribal area being used as a platform for plotting and executing international terrorist activity against the West.

"So any kind of agreement or understanding which might be negotiated, we would have to look at in the light of those imperatives for United States policies," he said.

The administration of US President George W. Bush has warned that Al-Qaeda was rebuilding itself in Pakistan's FATA and North West Frontier Province, both on the border with Afghanistan.

The FATA is also seen by Washington as a staging area for Al-Qaeda attacks in support of the Taliban in Afghanistan, where US and NATO troops have suffered heavy casualties battling a long drawn insurgency.

Negroponte said the United States expected Pakistan's civilian and military leadership to be "strong partners against violent extremists in Pakistan's frontier areas."

To help extend the Pakistani government's authority into those regions, he said, the United States was implementing a multi-year program to expand, equip, and train local security forces in the tribal areas.

A successful strategy in the tribal areas, he said, must include not only the possibility of military operations but also a serious and sustained economic development program and improvements in education and governance