Ultimately, the Bonn conference ended up being about empty platitudes, not serious policy decisions. The US and its allies pledged to support the civilian set-up in Afghanistan while Karzai in return said that his country would need at least $10 billion a year in aid for the next decade. But events have a way of overtaking talks at a summit. Nato states will find that once they no longer have boots on the ground in Afghanistan, their ability to influence events there will be greatly diminished. After international forces withdraw, the Karzai government’s survival will be even more precarious and the Taliban will be strengthened. Conferences can try to hide that reality but there is nothing they can do to change it.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 8th, 2011.
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Did any serious person think otherwise ???
Newtons Third law: will apply here between Pakistan and US-NATO. The mutual forces of action and reaction between two bodies are equal, opposite and collinear The Third Law means that all forces are interactions between different bodies ( Pakistan and Rest of the World -NATO are two different bodies) and thus that there is no such thing as a unidirectional force ( Pakistan Force alone) or a force that acts on only one body. Whenever a first body (Pakistan) exerts a force F on a second body (USand NATO), the second body exerts a force −F on the first body. F and −F are **equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.(Force from US and NATO)
So just do not think that Pakistan action will not have reaction ,Write about time when you will have REACTION from WORLD.
Until and unless america doesn't pull out each and every one of it's troops, there will never be peace in Afghanistan because the taleban will never talk unless foreign forces get out.