Re-modelling Af-Pak policy

US president Barack Hussain Obama has announced to send 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan to clear it of resurging Taliban and Al-Qeada. After eight years of the mismanagement of Afghan Affairs, President Obama chalked out a new strategy to clear the malaise set in there in only 18 months as he announced after that the withdrawal of soldiers would begin from Afghanistan.But President Obama must ensure peace and the finish of Taliban and Al-Qeada before the start of the withdrawal process of soldiers from Afghanistan. It may be possible that the Taliban and Al-Qeada may shift their activities to Pakistan for the period soldiers stay in Afghanistan. At present also, Afghan-Pak border area is the hub of terror practised by Al-Qeada and Taliban. And this area is the epicentre of terrorism, which President Obama has also accepted in the policy statement on Af-Pak. After one year of presidency, Obama has come to realise that the epicentre of terrorism is Afghanistan-Pakistan and from here the plot to attack US and other countries were hatched, and it is being practiced presently also. Al-Qeada and Taliban are always on look out for nuclear weapons and Pakistan is a nuclear power state. It is also a fact that the abortive attempts by Taliban and Al-Qeada have been made to attack Pak nuclear installations.Pakistan is itself facing danger from these rougue elements. So, the entire international community is apprehensive of passing Pak nuclear weapons into the hands of Taliban and Al-Qeada elements. The US must take lead in removing this apprehension by crushing the scourge of terrorism without any loss of time. With the reinforcement of 30,000 US soldiers, its number has gone up to 100,000 and they have only eighteen months of time to do their job, which the US and its other allied soldiers have not done. While US military commander in Afghanistan had asked for 40,000 more soldiers. So far the US military operation in Afghanistan has been a failure. When Obama assumed the office of US presidency, it was expected that he would do something different in Afghanistan from his predecessor George W Bush. Because Bush had been a failure there. But only after a year he had also to tread the same path. He has said about the training of local Afghans in security and instructed President Karzai of delivering good governance. Obama wants the participation of local Afghans in the military operations against Taliban and Al-Qeada. But he has completely lost sight of the fact that the task which the US-led allied forces could not do in eight years, how will it be done in 18 months? Here it is every possibility that the Taliban and Al-Qeada would lie low for the eighteen months and after that they would appear in full strength.Though Obama this time announcing the new strategy on Af-Pak has consulted the major world powers,including India, he must concentrate on Pakistan to ensure that it acts against the militants sincerily. Otherwise, Obama's new Af-Pak strategy with meet the same fate.