Pakistan wants NATO to adobt its failed deal with Taliban

Telegraph/Washington Times:

Senior Pakistani officials are urging NATO countries to accept the Taliban and negotiate a series of regional peace agreements similar to those that Pakistan has reached in tribal areas along its border with Afghanistan.
Prior to last week's NATO summit in Latvia, Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri told foreign ministers from some NATO member nations that the Taliban was winning the war in Afghanistan and that NATO was bound to fail.
"Kasuri is basically asking NATO to surrender and to negotiate with the Taliban," said one Western official who met the minister recently.
British Lt. Gen. David Richards, NATO's force commander in Afghanistan, and Dutch Ambassador Daan Everts spent five days in Islamabad before the summit urging the Pakistani military to do more to rein in the Taliban, but left less than fully satisfied.
Lt. Gen. Ali Mohammed Jan Orakzai, governor of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, said in an interview with Reuters news agency late last month that U.S. and British military actions in Afghanistan were merely feeding a "snowballing" insurgency.
"Either it is a lack of understanding or it is a lack of courage to admit their failures," he said of the two countries.
Gen. Orakzai also said the Taliban now lead a Pashtun-based "national resistance" movement whose aim is to throw out Western occupation forces.
But his comments have deeply angered many Pashtuns on both sides of the border.
Gen. Orakzai is the mastermind of peace deals between the Pakistan army and fiercely independent Pashtun tribes on the Pakistani side of the border.
While the agreements require tribal leaders to stop al Qaeda and Taliban fighters from crossing into Afghanistan, U.S. commanders in the region say attacks have increased since they were negotiated. Critics also say strict Islamist rule is being introduced in the areas.
Gen. Orakzai has also advocated similar deals in Helmand province, where British troops have been under siege for months.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that such a deal already was negotiated a month ago by Helmand Gov. Mohammed Daud.
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This has to be one of the most ridiculous suggestions since the war began. The Taliban have acted in bad faith from the beginning of the deal with Pakistan and continue to do so today. What should be happening is just the opposite of what these Pakistanis suggest. They should aggressively be going out to destroy the Taliban where ever they can find them. The Taliban have to be one of the most evil group of religious bigots on the face of the earth. Because they are religious bigots, they have no inhibition against lying or murdering to achieve their objectives. Any deal with them is based on hope overriding experience.

Pakistan has become the chief vineyard for the grapes of wrath of a venal religious movement and it does not appear that some of its leadership is equipped to root out those vineyards. If they do not they may get to watch others do it for them. Tolerance has it limits.