Insurgencies in Pakistan- Afghanistan[/caption]Ed.--As the world watches the Middle East boiling over from civil unrest, and one by one civilian protest sweeping that area of the world, in the region of Asia Pakistan is now the big worry regarding the nuclear threat as well as the rise of the Taliban.
Despite the capture of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, recently experts, watching the recent killing of three Americans and 18 others in Afghanistan, observe the possibility that given the increased terror in Afghanistan, that is Pakistan's neighbor, will also follow suit. Other experts worry over the potential of a nuclear threat from Pakistan as well.
Ploughshares, an organization fund that declares its support for security and peace worldwide, declares, "If a regional nuclear war were to break out anywhere, most experts think that it is most likely to happen in India and Pakistan. Such a conflict would have dire consequences in loss of life, food insecurity and direct deaths from the bombs themselves."
Where is the evidence of such a threat?Ploughshares goes on to say that the rising extremism in PATA, The Provincially Administered Tribal Areas with the implementation of Sharia Law in 2007, the potential for threats to security in the region has increased dramatically, underlined as well by the recent massacre of 21 people at a popular restaurant in Afghanistan. Then today it was reported by CBS that a bomb that had been placed by the Taliban exploded through a truck carrying paramilitary soldiers from a Pakistan army compound in north-western Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province bordering Afghanistan. In this attack, 20 soldiers were reported as killed, with another 30 injured.
This recent uptick in violence comes even as the US has promised to withdraw its forces by the end of 2014.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan responded today to these terrorist attacks, and the increased violence in his country and neighboring Afghanistan, by saying that a Joint Intelligence Directorate will be organized to coordinate intelligence gathering among the 26 agencies involved in intelligence activities. Mapping of identity databases of thousands of excerpts of chatter. Some of this is already being secretly undertaken, according to reports.
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