{"id":22234,"date":"2010-10-07T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_front_page_pakistan_spy_agency_urges_on_taliban\/"},"modified":"2010-10-07T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T15:29:56","slug":"wsj_front_page_pakistan_spy_agency_urges_on_taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22234","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Front Page: Pakistan Spy Agency Urges On Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Pakistan&#8217;s spy agency are pressing Taliban field commanders to fight the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan, some U.S. officials and Afghan militants say, a development that undercuts a key element of the Pentagon&#8217;s strategy for ending the war.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive accusation is the strongest yet in a series of U.S. criticisms of Pakistan, and shows a deteriorating relationship with an essential ally in the Afghan campaign. The U.S. has provided billions of dollars in military and development aid to Pakistan for its support.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Afghanistan have sought to persuade midlevel Taliban commanders to lay down their weapons in exchange for jobs or cash. The most recent Afghan effort at starting a peace process took place this week in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>But few Taliban have given up the fight, officials say&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704689804575536241251361592.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Pakistan&#8217;s spy agency are pressing Taliban field commanders to fight the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan, some U.S. officials and Afghan militants say, a development that undercuts a key element of the Pentagon&#8217;s strategy for ending the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22234\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,503,201,143,144,343,148,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan","category-terrorism","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}