Pakistan

[ThomasWach]

Hier mal ein interessanter und auch recht ausführlicher Bericht über den inzwischen eingesetzten pakistanischen Anti-Terror-Kampf.
Der seit September begonnene Kampf der pakistanischen Streitkräfte in und um die Provinz Bajaur wird in all seinen Schwierigkeiten und Defiziten sehr eindringlich geschildert und macht deutlich, dass man so einfach der pakistanischen Führung nicht mangelnde Ergebnisse im Anti-Terror-Kampf vorwerfen sollte, vor allem eingedenk der auch eher marginalen Erfolge der westlichen Truppen auf der anderen Seite der Grenze angesichts ihrer deutlichen technischen Überlegenheit.

Hier aber der Artikel:

Pakistanis Mired in Brutal Battle to Oust Taliban

LOE SAM, Pakistan — When Pakistan’s army retook this strategic stronghold from the Taliban last month, it discovered how deeply Islamic militants had encroached on — and literally dug into — Pakistani territory.
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After three months of sometimes fierce fighting, the Pakistani Army controls a small slice of Bajaur. But what was initially portrayed as a paramilitary action to restore order in the area has become the most sustained military campaign by the Pakistani Army against the Taliban and its backers in Al Qaeda since Pakistan allied itself with the United States in 2001.
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The Pakistanis have also resorted to scorched-earth tactics to push the Taliban out, an approach that risks pushing more of their own citizens into the Taliban’s embrace.

After the Frontier Corps failed to dislodge the Taliban from Loe Sam in early August, the army sent in 2,400 troops in early September to take on a Taliban force that has drawn militants from across the tribal region, as well as a flow of fighters from Afghanistan.

Like all Pakistani soldiers, the troops sent here had been trained and indoctrinated to fight in conventional warfare against India, considered the nation’s permanent enemy, but had barely been trained in counterinsurgency strategy and tactics.
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Quelle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/...anted=1&hp