Taliban bases in Pakistan must be eliminated or the counter-insurgency war being fought by American, Canadian and other allied soldiers in southern Afghanistan is doomed, a U.S. Defence Department-funded study by the RAND Corporation warns. "The United States and other international actors need to eliminate the insurgents' support base in Pakistan," the report concludes. "Failure to do so will cripple long-term efforts to stabilize and rebuild Afghanistan." The report also accuses Pakistani...
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