Pakistan in danger of being overrun by Taliban
May 4 (The Australian) - AHEAD of his meetings this week with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, Barack Obama is correct in his strategy of considering the neighbouring countries together. As the US boosts its troop numbers in Afghanistan to 60,000, Britain to 9000 and Australia to 1550, the US President is increasingly turning his attention across the Durand line. As he said last week, the West has huge strategic interests - huge national security interests - in making sure that Pakistan is stable and that you don't end up having a nuclear-armed militant state. . . continue reading.
