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Pakistan’s cooperation is crucial to the success of the current US and NATO strategy in Afghanistan. Yet, as this paper argues, the Pakistani military not only has misgivings about the NATO surge but also about its own agenda. Central to the discord is the military’s view of the Afghan Taliban as assets to counter-rival India’s spreading footprint in Afghanistan. There is, the author argues, little indication that Pakistan is willing to undertake campaigns against militants in the tribal areas, or play the role of anvil to the US hammer along the Afghan-Pakistani border.