Military brains plot Pakistan's downfall

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The September 13 attack on Zarrar Company's Tarbella Ghazi camp in northwestern Pakistan in which 20 military men were killed raised alarm bells in Islamabad. Zarrar Company is involved in anti-terror operations.

Pakistani jihadis have launched many attacks on the establishment and against Musharraf, but now they face a well-coordinated "guerrilla" strategy, spearheaded by former army officers.

The former military men are operating out of the Waziristan camp of former Pakistani jihadi commander Maulana Ilyas Kashmiri. They are mostly ex-middle cadre (captains, majors, colonels) who resigned upon Pakistan's U-turn after September 11.

Initially, the architect of the struggle against Pakistan's alliance in the US-led "war on terror" and the operations in the Waziristans against the Pakistani military was an ex-captain of Pakistan's Special Services Group (he served in Zarrar Company). Captain Ahmed (not his real name), who also served in Pakistan's peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone, was killed a few months ago in the Garmser district of Helmand province in Afghanistan fighting against British troops.

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