ON the intensely complex question of adopting a strategy that could somehow break the current stalemate in Afghanistan and reverse the almost certain prospects of defeat for the US-led forces, the Obama administration has, in the fashion of powerful states dealing with weaker allies, decided to use the carrot-and-stick approach towards Pakistan. A letter from President Obama to President Zardari, personally delivered by US National Security Adviser General Jones last week, offers an expanded strategic partnership to Pakistan, including additional military and economic cooperation, but only if it stops hobnobbing with insurgent groups that the US believes it continues to do. The General is supposed to have bluntly told his interlocutors that if Pakistan could not deliver the US would be impelled to use any means it considered suitable to rout insurgents along the border with Afghanistan.

Above is the excerption of a article in THENATION. In my opinion Pakistan should tell Americans to go and rout out Talibans if they could because when ever they had any face to face encounter with Talibans in the past they ran away from the battle field leaving their dead ones behind.