Pakistan Seeks Control of its Afghanistan Endgame Encouraging Taliban attacks on NATO, leaders of the Pakistan military and its intelligence service are impatient for the US to abandon the war in Afghanistan. The Pakistani goal is to prevent a pro-India government in Afghanistan and install instead a puppet Islamic regime. In testimony before the US Senate Armed Services Committee, the outgoing chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, bluntly noted that Taliban leaders and the Haqqani network "operate from Pakistan with impunity." Pakistani military leaders on their part seethe over growing ties between the US and India, and a former ISI chief suggested that the US seeks an Afghan "proxy" for India, explains Bruce Riedel, senior fellow at the Saban Center in the Brookings Institution....
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