Frontpage Interview's guest today is Steve Schippert, co-founder of the Center for Threat Awareness and managing editor for ThreatsWatch.org.
FP: Steve Schippert, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I want to analyze the elections and Pakistan and their meaning here with you today. But first, something that I think is just as, or far more, critical, is the new “peace accord” that has been announced in North Waziristan between tribal leaders and the Pakistani government. Let’s start with that. What is to be made of it?
Schippert: The Miranshah II 'peace agreement' signed between the Pakistani government and the majority Wazir and Dawar tribes of North Waziristan appears worth less than the Miranshah I recycled paper it was written on.
For perspective, let's recall the first Miranshah peace agreement, named for the capital city of Pakistan's North Waziristan agency in the rather autonomous Federally Administered (meaning the Pakistani government does not administer governance locally, by the way) Tribal Areas (FATA). Widely touted by the Musharraf government as a peace agreement signed between tribal leaders and the government, it was in fact little more than a surrender as Musharraf ceded the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance the entire agency for promises only to be broken by the 'tribal leaders' who were in fact Taliban. This fact was essentially admitted Monday when the government-fed line was that this time the accord is not with the Taliban but real, honest to goodness local tribal leaders, presumably suggesting anti-Taliban. Read more ...
FP: Steve Schippert, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I want to analyze the elections and Pakistan and their meaning here with you today. But first, something that I think is just as, or far more, critical, is the new “peace accord” that has been announced in North Waziristan between tribal leaders and the Pakistani government. Let’s start with that. What is to be made of it?
Schippert: The Miranshah II 'peace agreement' signed between the Pakistani government and the majority Wazir and Dawar tribes of North Waziristan appears worth less than the Miranshah I recycled paper it was written on.
For perspective, let's recall the first Miranshah peace agreement, named for the capital city of Pakistan's North Waziristan agency in the rather autonomous Federally Administered (meaning the Pakistani government does not administer governance locally, by the way) Tribal Areas (FATA). Widely touted by the Musharraf government as a peace agreement signed between tribal leaders and the government, it was in fact little more than a surrender as Musharraf ceded the Taliban-al-Qaeda alliance the entire agency for promises only to be broken by the 'tribal leaders' who were in fact Taliban. This fact was essentially admitted Monday when the government-fed line was that this time the accord is not with the Taliban but real, honest to goodness local tribal leaders, presumably suggesting anti-Taliban. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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