About the open letter from Col. Harish Puri

You have to read this. It came in the Pakistan news dailies recently.
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=172290

I read in Chidanand Rajghatta's column, TOI, that the letter stung the pakistanis so much that the newspaper had to issue an apology for publishing it. :)

Then you have to proceed to the reactions to the letter and to the reactions themselves.
http://ishaal.instablogs.com/entry/you-asked-for-it-col-harish-puri/

I think its foolish to believe Pakistan will vanquish Taliban and walk towards world peace. Even it means its good for the pakistanis themselves first. It works against their establishment.
As long as they have Taliban, they can keep getting funds and military aid from America. As long as they can manage that, they can keep challenging Indian forces and inciting unrest in India.
As it appears, the average pakistani serves the country better by joining Taliban than by working in the fields or industries. Cool proposition!

Not only does Pakistan sustain the battle with Taliban to drive bigger margins from US, it also pushes the wealthy nations to think that they will be worse off, if Taliban gets hold of any of its nuclear weapons. More money then.
Taliban quietly evacuating Buner as quietly as they came and 'seized' control, is one such example.
The world media's reaction swayed from pole to pole, something like, 'oh, Taliban is now just 100km from Islamabad and they're going to takeover Pakistan like they took over Afghanistan' to 'ah, the Taliban retreated. The Army's in control. The nukes are in safe custody.'

Wonder if the Indian and American govts are even sighting an end to this problem.