Ironically, Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani had recently informed an audience comprising senior officials of the State, Pentagon, Homeland Security and intelligence agencies that the cooperation between the security forces of Afghanistan and Pakistan had never been better.
He even boasted of the improving relationship "between the Pakistani intelligence service and the US intelligence service in terms of cooperation in counterterrorist operations."
"The Pakistani military has done more fighting in the last seven months than it did in the preceding seven years in terms of operational engagement," Haqqani said, and talked of successes in Bajor and Khyber "as examples of Pakistan's military and intelligence services working together."
"The crisis in Swat is being addressed militarily and will be addressed with a combination of political and military means, as well as the insurgency everywhere," he had added.
Barely a week later, in a major setback to the war on terror, the Pakistan government was forced to sign a peace deal with Taliban forces in Swat and impose Sharia in the valley.
Image: Delegation members of Pakistani Islamist leader Soofi Mohammad from the Swat valley attend a meeting with government officials, political and religious leaders in Peshawar.
Photograph: Ali Imam/Reuters
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