Is there a commensurate buildup of development assistance and expertise, in PRTs for example?
The answer to that is yes. It is not a question of the buildup through the PRTs specifically, but more fundamentally it is the realization that the military operations are beginning soon and that they are only there as part of the nexus of security, development and governance. So they are not there for a military purpose, they are there for a collective aim to get to a political goal. That is the fundamental basis with which the campaign will now move forward. Since October of last year General McCrystal has the commander of ISAF, and there was this recognition but there were not the mechanisms in place to do it, be it simply through a result of institutional analysis, a lack of resolve, a lack of understanding at the distance of our capitals, or from problems on the ground in the country itself. Q3. How would you characterize the NATO-Pakistan relationship today, and is the Pakistan government becoming more cooperative in terms of its porous border with Afghanistan? I deliberately wil
