Pakistanis in anti-militant pact with border tribe (3rd try)

[maddezmom]

Pakistanis in anti-militant pact with border tribe
17 Mar 2007 11:06:46 GMT
Source: Reuters
More By Anwarullah Khan

KHAR, Pakistan, March 17 (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities reached an agreement on Saturday with tribal elders near the Afghan border aimed at rooting out foreign militants and ending insurgent raids into Afghanistan, a political official said.

The agreement with a tribe in the Bajaur region is the latest that Pakistani authorities have struck in the hope of ending violence in its tribal belt along the Afghan border.

Critics said two earlier agreements in the Waziristan region, to the south of Bajaur, amounted to giving the militants free rein, and U.S. officials say the pacts have not stopped cross-border raids on foreign and Afghan government troops.

The deal was struck in the same district where a U.S. air strike killed 18 people in January last year. U.S. officials later said the strike targeted al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri but he escaped.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL24100.htm

previous LBN article:
U.S. to give Pakistan $750 mln for border areas
15 Mar 2007 13:12:14 GMT
Source: Reuters

ISLAMABAD, March 15 (Reuters) - The United States aims to give Pakistan $750 million over the next five years for the development of areas on the border with Afghanistan, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.

"This commitment to the development of Pakistan, this commitment to the long-term relationship, is another example of the very broad and deep relations that we have," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher told a news conference in Islamabad.

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The U.S. administration will seek the approval of the U.S. Congress for the extra aid, Boucher said.

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[youngdem]

1. While this reads like a truce, it seems more of a merger

The moderates in Pakistan are fast losing ground to militants. He is now forced to negotiate regional peace agreements with war lords to keep 'control' of Pakistan. His security forces are infiltrated and he doesn't have real control of any militant activities.

I predict a militant coup in Pakistan soon.