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A desire on the part of British and Pakistani officials to negotiate a Taliban-sharing arrangement in Afghanistan may prompt greater Indian, Iranian and Russian opposition and undermine years of U.S. and Indian initiatives there. And such a development could create a rift between Great Britain and the U.S. in efforts to limit Taliban control in Afghanistan, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

But the bigger concern is that the underlying impetus for some of the maneuvers is a direct challenge to the U.S. by Pakistan, according to sources.

For years, India and Iran have provided major projects for infrastructure development in Afghanistan and, like Russia, view the country as a strategic asset to its national security interests.

Indeed, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., Iran and Russia gave tacit approval of U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan against the Taliban.

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At the same time, U.S. and Indian officials see Pakistan as the root cause of the Taliban problem in Afghanistan, prompting hard questions in both countries on how to save it from a Taliban takeover.

Security experts now confirm the potential root of defeat of NATO forces in Afghanistan by the Taliban may rest with Pakistan.

Such talk has given rise to the role of containing Pakistan, even proposing its breakup.

The discussions have emerged in U.S. and Indian circles, given Pakistan's efforts for years to instigate Islamic violence in India. Pakistan regards India as an interloper in Afghanistan, which Pakistan regards as being in its sphere of influence.

One of the biggest fears of the Pakistani military planners is the collaboration between India and Afghanistan to destroy Pakistan, according to a senor Pakistani government official.

"Some people feel the United States is colluding in this."

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Talk of a potential breakup of Pakistan is at variance to long-held U.S. efforts to encourage the country to assist in the "war against terror."

However, Pakistan apparently has been aiding and abetting terrorism from Afghanistan to India for years through its Inter-Service Intelligence agency.

"Pakistan has never invested in Afghanistan's political future or its stability and security," said Subhash Kapila, a strategic affairs analyst with the South Asia Analysis Group.

"Pakistan continues to view Afghanistan as the legatee overlord after British withdrawal and serve Pakistan as its strategic backyard," he said. "The history of Pak-Afghan relations is replete with its continuous efforts by Pakistan to destabilize Afghanistan."

Among security specialists, there is continued concern that Pakistan has regrouped the Taliban within Pakistan with the hope that there will be strategic fatigue affecting NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Indeed, Pakistan is looked upon by some of the specialists as using the Taliban as an instrument of Pakistan's strategic objective to "enslave" Afghanistan.

Consequently, Pakistan has developed an "inspired campaign" to "over-hype" Taliban gains in Afghanistan and minimize tactical successes of NATO forces.

"This inspired campaign has spawned in its wake some dangerous alternatives detrimental to U.S. strategic interests, namely to explore an exit strategy from Afghanistan and secondly to co-opt the Taliban in a dialogue with the Karzai government with the ultimate aim of Taliban sharing political power in Kabul," Kapila said.

Increasingly, critics of a dialogue with the Taliban regard this Islamic group as a strategic asset of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Indeed, it was only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that recognized the Taliban when it took over Afghanistan in 1996.

For these countries, which are Sunni, the Sunni Taliban's presence in Afghanistan is seen as offsetting the increasing Shiite influence on the country from Iran.

Because of Saudi Arabia's support of Pakistan, especially over the contentious issue of Kashmir, India's strategic relations with that kingdom also have been affected.

"Pakistan ensconced the Afghan Taliban hierarchy and the Taliban Shura under direct protection of the Pakistan Army in Quetta where it continues untouched till today," Kapila said.

"Surprisingly, the United States which has now become active in attacking Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaida hideouts within Pakistan … has not touched Quetta where Mullah Omar and the Afghan Taliban are housed and from where all Taliban major operations in southern Afghanistan are launched," he added.

Kapila makes a distinction between the Pakistan Taliban and the Afghan Taliban. The Pakistan Taliban, he said, is a threat to Pakistan's security but the Afghan Taliban is a strategic asset to be used to force the exit of the U.S. from Afghanistan.

"Both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have plans to use the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaida in their future strategic blueprints," Kapila said. "Convergence exists again between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to place a Taliban government in Kabul."

Security experts such as Kapila believe that Pakistan actually is working against the U.S., as some of its recent actions suggest.

"What we are witnessing today in Afghanistan is not an Afghan civil war but a puny state like Pakistan, with its nuclear weapons notwithstanding, challenging the military might of the only global superpower, namely the United Sates, through asymmetric war through its proxy insurgent outfit, the Taliban," Kapila said.

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