General Jehangir Karamat, former Chairman
of Pakistan's Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 1998, joined the Atlantic
Council's South Asia Center for a discussion on the challenges facing Pakistan's
army. General Karamat was Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States from 2004
to 2006, and he currently heads a Lahore-based think tank called Spearhead
Research, which focuses on social, economic, military and political issues
concerning Pakistan and Afghanistan. The event was moderated by Shuja Nawaz, the
director of the South Asia Center.

Karamat described militant activity emanating from the tribal areas as a
"full-blown insurgency" and predicted a long and protracted, though ultimately
successful, struggle to contain the fighting and bring stability and development
to the troubled regions. He added that the most dangerous threat presently posed
by the Taliban is its potential to establish links with existing extremist
groups elsewhere in Pakistan to carry out attacks deep within the country. Such
attacks could destabilize the civilian government as well as disrupt Pakistani
military operations in the tribal areas.

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