For anyone who's wondering how the Taliban manages to successfully destabilise Afghanistan despite the presence of 34,000 US troops and 26,000 troops drawn from other countries, a study by the RAND corporation, an influential US think tank, provides an answer.
According to the study, members of Pakistan's intelligence services and its paramilitaries are supporting Taliban insurgents as they enter Afghanistan to attack Afghan, NATO and US forces.
The report warns that unless Taliban bases in Pakistan can be eliminated, the inter-national effort to stabilise Afghanistan cannot succeed.
But the fact that radical Islamic militants find refuge in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan is not a problem for Afghanistan alone.
According to US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Michael Mullen, if the US gets hit in a terror strike again the attack will originate from the Al-Qaida leadership in FATA.
http://newageislam.com/pakistan--the-real-threat/islam,terrorism-and-jihad/d/91
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