• The tribal agencies of Pakistan, like Bajaur and North and South Waziristan, are kept by the government as a strategic pool of fighters. From these areas the fundamentalists are able to operate.
• Pakistan is nervous at the prospect of Afghanistan becoming a fully independent country. Mr. Saleh points to the influence Pakistan had during the Afghan-Russia war and not wanting to give up that control.
• In 2008, the Taliban fired over 30 million AK 47 rounds and the director believes that this ammunition was provided by the Pakistani Army.
• Mr. Saleh confirmed that his agency has passed intelligence information about training camps, addresses, telephone numbers and names of terrorists groups on to Pakistan. But they didn't act. There was no meaningful response. Many suicide bombers have been arrested before completing their mission and have claimed to have been trained in Pakistan.
• According to Amrullah, "Terrorist elements are ordering Afghans to attack our army units and ISAF convoys or to burn schools. The perpetrators make videos to prove what they have done and once they provide this proof, they are rewarded with money from Pakistan. In the Kunduz area, the plotters of these acts are the Taliban commanders Mullah Rustam and Mullah Salam. Both are Afghans, but they live with their families in Pakistan.....Why is the Taliban commander of Ghormach, whose name is Abdul Rahman Haqqani, currently being given medical treatment at a hospital in Peshawar after he was heavily wounded in recent fighting? Why? It's because Pakistan is his base."

Conclusion  
While Afghanistan faces the problems of establishing order within its country, Pakistan is not offering the type of help that is sorely needed. Mr. Saleh feels that the country is on the right path and will persevere. Whether or not Pakistan continues on its course of creating problems in Afghanistan will have a great influence on when the country can stand against its enemies.