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There are two ways to change the incentives of the many Pashtuns who until now have supported the Taliban based on the reasonable belief that they may someday return to power.
However, a secret NATO report, leaked this week, called "The State of the Taliban", based on interrogations with more than 4,000 Taliban and al-Qaeda detainees, painted a picture of an insurgency that is resilient and likely to remain so for as long as Pakistan believes it is in its strategic interests to give it material and moral support.
Those are among some of the findings of a NATO report, "State of the Taliban 2012," based on 27,000 interrogations of 4,000 Taliban and other captives that portrays a Taliban insurgency that is far from vanquished or demoralized even as the United States and its allies enter what they hope will be the final phase of the war.
This complex and dangerous cooperation between the army and the Taliban was based on a deal: The Taliban, Afghan or Pakistani, might push their agenda in Afghanistan or in the northwest territories in Pakistan, but should not contest the leadership of the Pakistan Army.
Pakistan's military is fighting Taliban insurgents in its volatile northwest, and General Petraeus's challenge is to persuade the country's leaders to also focus on the Afghan Taliban based in Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal areas.
"And there," he said pointing to a Taliban base on a distant hillside.
A1 HEAVY BOMBING -- An American B-52 bomber attacked Taliban bases on the front line north of Kabul, leading the heaviest day of bombing yet against Taliban positions.
An American B-52 bomber attacked Taliban bases on the front line north of Kabul today, leading the heaviest day of bombing yet against Taliban positions here.
Then the fighters were in the village, banging off shots around walls made of mud and straw, before capturing the main Taliban base on the hill.
Earlier in the evening Kazem, a 25-year-old commander here, happily described how an American plane had attacked a Taliban base on the other side of the valley for the first time on Tuesday night.
Though her own years in office were also seriously marred by corruption, Ms. Bhutto is a somewhat more plausible champion of secularism, democracy and a real fight against Al Qaeda and Taliban bases on Pakistani soil.
