Raja Mandala: General Bajwa in his labyrinth
With Trump administration testing the limits of coercive diplomacy, he must choose between handing in terrorists or facing America’s wrath.
The talking heads on Pakistani television are outdoing each other in the denunciation of President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend a billion dollars of aid.
Hand in the Haqqanis or hang on to them? That is the dilemma before the Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, so aptly summed by a Pakistani columnist for the Dawn newspaper. In the face of unexpected and significant pressure from the United States to deliver some top militants of the Taliban and the Haqqani Network, the generals in Rawalpindi are locked in a serious debate.
That debate behind closed doors is surely very different from the one in the public. The talking heads on Pakistani television are outdoing each other in the denunciation of President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend a billion dollars of aid. Pakistan’s politicians have postured with predictable bravado. The religious groups have burnt the American flag in the streets.
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