U.S. Training Pakistani Army
Although the relationship between the United States and Pakistan has deteriorated in recent months, the two sides are still working together in the war on terrorism.
According to recent media reports, the U.S. military has, for instance, started training Pakistani soldiers to fight militants in the country’s tribal region.
CNN reported Sunday that ‘[t]he Pakistanis trained by the U.S. contingent — which includes Army Special Forces troops — will in turn become trainers for Frontier Corps troops on the front lines fighting the militants.’
Pakistani Lt. Col. Attique Rehman confirmed the same details to CNN on Saturday.
‘Members of the Frontier Corps are ethnic Pashtuns recruited from Pakistan’s tribal region. They are on the front lines in the fight against militants along the Afghan border but they’ve long had a reputation of being poorly trained and underfunded,’ CNN said in its report.
It is an important development: the U.S. has threatened to fight against Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Pakistan, regardless of what Islamabad would think about such cross border operations, but the best solution for all involved is, of course, to have the Pakistani army fight said militants.
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