Increasing number of policy makers, and opinion makers in the US are demanding that the US review its bogus position of Pakistan as a frontline ally against terrorism and demand a firm deadline by which it can reign in its military and intelligence agencies.

Researchers have repeatedly shown that Pakistan’s army and the dreaded Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operate as a “state within a state” and actively recruit, train, fund, and arm the Taliban for attacks on US and allied positions in Afghanistan with impunity. Several senior US Government functionaries starting from President George Bush have privately delivered a strict message to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf who consistently denies allegation that he meddles in terrorism activities within Afghanistan.

A recent spate of Taliban activities which include full-scale attacks to hit-and-run insurgency tactics have caused the deaths of hundreds of civilians, Taliban cadre, and allied soldiers. While the Taliban have scant respect for the lives of the civilians, they glorify their own death in order to infuse more illiterate population into their ranks.

Hoover Institution Fellow Paul Sperry who is now in Quetta, called the new capital of the Taliban, says that the Pakistani Army is actively providing Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and shoulder fire Stringer Missiles to the Taliban to attack convoys. Sperry points out that all the major criminals and terrorists in the world have been found in Pakistan and not in Iran or Iraq.

Pakistan itself is under attack from a new brand of Taliban that seeks to cleanse Pakistan. Analysts say that the military and ISI is turning them against the “infidel” army across the border instead of domestic targets so they do not have the face the ire for mis-management.