Pakistan’s Army Head Visits Afghanistan

August 19th, 2008 By: Michael van der Galien | Tags:
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One day after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation, the head of Pakistan’s army secretly went to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, to talk to high ranking Afghan officials about cooperation between the two countries.

Afghanistan and Pakistan share a border, which is frequently passed by both Al Qaeda and Taliban extremists. They hide in Pakistan, cross the border into Afghanistan where they fight the allied forces and the Afghan government, after which they flee back into Pakistan once again.

The visit may be meant to help the two countries work together to beat aforementioned extremists. It could very well be a sign that Pakistan’s military wanted to take them on more aggressively than Musharraf. If true, this could mean a significant improvement.

On the other hand, it could also mean the opposite.

That’s what’s so beautiful about the region; it’s difficult if not impossible to predict the future.

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