ISI Urges Mullah Omar to Leave Pakistan

After Bin Laden was killed in a US commando raid on the 3rd of May in the most protected area of Pakistan, worries have grown immensely in the Pakistani politics controlled by strong establishment led by its spying agency and military of probable chances of losing its final hope and Afghanistan's weakest link in yet another raid of the sort if it targets Taliban's No.1 leader and operative Mullah Mohammed Omar. It's through him (Mullah Omar) that Pakistan is keeping her influence felt all across the political landscape of Afghanistan. It's an unshakable belief in the Pakistani circle of politics that without funding, maintaining, training and equipping Taliban, they have no other choice. It's through the Taliban that Pakistan pressurizes Afghanistan on every forum. Just a week before Bin Laden was killed, for example, Pakistani Prime Minister standing alongside Afghan President in Kabul claimed that Pakistan is not a sanctuary for any terrorist and that Afghanistan has to understand it. This statement in a joint press conference put President Karzai in a very awkward position who had previously rhetorically claimed that it was Pakistan where Taliban leaders have found safe haven.

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The ISI has formally asked Taliban leader through its former chief General Hamid Gul to leave Pakistan for a short period of time assuring him to be safely moved to Helmand or Iran. Now, presumably the Pakistani notorious spying agency ISI is struggling hard to give unbreakable protection to Mullah Omar in a bit to maintain Pakistan's direct influence on Afghan affairs in the long term. However, insiders have learnt that Pakistanis are trying to play yet another game. First they will transfer Mullah Omar to Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand and then give his address to the Americans who will definitely arrest or kill him. This way the pressure on Pakistan for being the sole state on earth to house highly sought terrorists would be relieved to a bearable degree.

For Afghanistan, Mullah Omar has been the weakest link as he is the only person exercising spiritual and moral influence equally on all Taliban fighters and commanders. If he is killed or agrees to direct political talks with the Afghan government, peace is deemed inevitable in Afghanistan but this is not at all advantageous to Pakistan. The graph of pro-Pakistani politics in Kabul has never been good. In the wake of Indian Premier's visit to Kabul and talks of Strategic Partnership with the US and India, Pakistan's trying hard to work out on her final hope in the form of Mullah Omar who could guarantee a durable Pakistani influence on the political affairs of Afghanistan.