In the past few years, slain Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud and his successor Hakimullah Mehsud
launched a "war against the Pakistani security forces with the
help of the Mehsud tribe, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and some other
sectarian groups".
The killing of Osama bin Laden in a US raid in Abbottabad
on May 2 strengthened American decision to pull out its troops
from Afghanistan and political advisers like US Vice President
Joe Biden have advised President Barack Obama "not to go
against the withdrawal roadmap" announced in 2009 if he wants
to save the US economy from disastrous effects, the report
said. The deadline and increased pressure on Pakistan for a
military operation in North Waziristan before starting the
withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan will serve
several purposes, the report claimed. The killing or arrest of some of the most wanted
terrorists by Pakistani and US security forces will "boost the
morale of the American people". Such a move will also shut up critics who "might say the
withdrawal decision was taken by an exhausted nation and a
defeated military". "On the other hand, the Haqqani network and the al-Qaeda
and Taliban commanders, allegedly based in Pakistan, and
guiding the Afghan Taliban to fight the foreign forces,
would not claim the US withdrawal their success," the report
said. PTI