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AFghan-Pakistan relations impact: Afghanistan stability Afghan-Pakistan relations are key to winning in Afghanistan Washington Post 7/1 [2010, Karin Brulliard and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post, Some Afghan military officers to receive training in Pakistan; A major shift in policy Move shows nations' deepening relationship, lexis] Gen. David H. Petraeus, confirmed Wednesday as the new U.S. and NATO war commander, said this week that the United States wants to "forge a partnership or further the partnership that has been developing between Afghanistan and Pakistan." In addition to taking military action against Taliban sanctuaries inside its borders, Petraeus said, it is "essential" that Pakistan be involved "in some sort of reconciliation agreement" with the insurgents. AFghan-Paki relations high Afghanistan and Pakistan are cooperating over the military BBC 7/2 [2010, BBC Monitoring South Asia – Political, Afghan president agrees to send military offices to train in Pakistan, lexis] Afghan President Hamed Karzai has agreed to a proposal to send a group of Afghan military officers to Pakistan for training. This decision of the Afghan president is being viewed as a clear shift in his //policy//. On the other hand, military experts are also viewing the Afghan president's decision as a victory for Pakistan as Pakistan could prove to be an important ally with regard to winning the war on terror, since its start in Afghanistan. According to high-ranking NATO military officials, the decision shows that the United States and NATO allies trust Pakistan. On the other hand, top political leadership in the United States too while appreciating the decision of the Afghan president has said that it will further improve ties between the two countries. More ev they are deepening relations The Australian, 7/2 [2010, Pakistan to help train Afghan military, lexis] PAKISTAN will begin training Afghan military personnel within months, and has indicated it could hand over several top Afghan Taliban commanders, signalling deepening relations between the traditionally wary neighbours. A Pakistan military spokesman yesterday confirmed the training had been agreed to by both sides, as the US Senate confirmed General David Petraeus as the new commander of US and NATO troops fighting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. A top Islamabad security official also said this week that Pakistan may extradite top Taliban commander Mullah Baradar as part of efforts to help Afghan President Hamid Karzai reach a settlement with the Taliban. Relations between Pakistan and the Western-backed central Afghan government have been tense for years, with Mr Karzai accusing Pakistan security forces of backing the Taliban insurgency as insurance against Indian influence in Afghanistan. But with US President Barack Obama signalling a military withdrawal in July next year, Pakistan is increasingly viewed by Kabul as key to ending the conflict. The US is believed to support a negotiated settlement with the Taliban as a means to end its faltering war effort. AT: Afghan-Pakistan – troop link Keeping troops in Afghanistan drives Afghan-Pakistani cooperation Weekend Australian 6/26 [2010, Pakistani links alarm - US ISLAMABAD READY TO FORGE PARTNERSHIP WITH TALIBAN, lexis] US officials are believed to be worried that Pakistan could exploit uncertainty over the Obama administration's strategy in Afghanistan after the sacking of General Stanley McChrystal. Pakistan is reportedly ready to negotiate a partnership deal with the Taliban leadership and an Afghan faction allied to al-Qa'ida. Any move to exert Pakistani influence inside Afghanistan would depend on the co-operation of President Hamid Karzai, who supported General McChrystal as the top US commander and has had an increasingly stormy relationship with Washington. Reports of the possible power-sharing arrangement between Pakistan and the Taliban came as President Barack Obama conceded yesterday that US troops might need to remain longer in Afghanistan after progress in the war again slowed during a military operation in the city of Kandahar. Mr Obama faces increasing pressure from voters to draw down the US troop numbers, and he chose the unusual ploy of announcing the start of a military withdrawal from July next year even as he announced a 30,000 increase in forces in December. The US President insists he is adhering to his pledge to begin the troop withdrawal, but is expected to come under pressure from his new commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, to recognise that a speedier exit strategy is not feasible. Mr Obama said yesterday that US troops could remain in Afghanistan longer. AT: Afghan-Pakistan relations impacts Too early to tell if talks will happen Washington Post 6/28 [2010, Panetta: Afghan reconciliation 'difficult', lexis] President Obama said Sunday it is "too early to tell" whether reintegration and reconciliation efforts will succeed. "I think that we have to view these efforts with skepticism, but also openness," he said at a news conference at the close of the Group of 20 conference in Canada. "The Taliban is a blend of hard-core ideologues, tribal leaders, kids that basically sign up because it's the best job available to them. Not all of them are going to be thinking the same way about the Afghan government, about the future of Afghanistan," Obama said in his most extensive remarks to date about the reconciliation process. "And so we're going to have to sort through how these talks take place." Afghanistan and Pakistan are already hedging their bets against U.S. withdrawal Washington Post 7/1 [2010, Karin Brulliard and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post, Some Afghan military officers to receive training in Pakistan; A major shift in policy Move shows nations' deepening relationship, lexis] U.S. officials are generally pleased with the rapprochement between Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the rapid progress of the talks has given some an uneasy feeling that events are moving outside U.S. control. Karzai told the Obama administration about his first meeting with Pakistani intelligence chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha when he visited Washington in May, but "he didn't say what they talked about, what the Pakistanis offered. He just dangled" the information, one U.S. official said. That session, and at least one follow-up meeting among Karzai, Pasha and the Pakistani army chief of staff, Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, included discussion of Pakistan-facilitated talks with Taliban leaders, although the two governments differed on whether the subject was raised with a Pakistan offer or an Afghan request. Both governments denied subsequent reports that Karzai had met face to face with Pakistan-based insurgent leader Sirajuddin Haqqani. Hedging their bets Pakistan and Afghanistan have long held each other at arm's length. The border between them is disputed, and Afghans resent Pakistan's support for the Taliban government during the 1990s and its tolerance of insurgent sanctuaries. But as they have assessed coalition prospects in the war, both governments appear to have turned to each other as a way of hedging their bets against a possible U.S. withdrawal. While building Afghanistan's weak army is a key component of U.S. strategy, more than 300 Afghan soldiers are currently being trained under bilateral agreements in other countries, including Turkey and India, Pakistan's traditional adversary. Pakistan has been pushing for months for a training deal, and Spanta said that a "limited" number of officers would be part of the new agreement. Details were still under discussion, but a senior Pakistani government official said the program was expected to begin "soon." Shuja Nawaz, director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington and an advocate of a Pakistani training program, said the plan could expedite joint operations between the two militaries and reduce suspicions about Pakistan within the Afghan army. "This is a major move," Nawaz said. 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