The new Pakistani government has been negotiating with extremists in the NW Frontier Provinces for weeks and are finding the going a little tough.This is the same ground covered by President Musharraf when he was seeking deals with the tribes on sovereignty and infiltration into Afghanistan. Apparently, the same problems that plagued the Pakistani president are cropping up for the new government.From StrategyPage.com:The Pakistani peace deal with the pro-Taliban tribes (particularly with warlord Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan, on the Afghan border) is stumbling over the details. Mehsud refuses to stop sending fighters into Afghanistan. The Pakistani government can't sign a deal that explicitly allows this, so Mehsud is being asked to agree to behave, then do what he likes. Mehsud does not want to lie about such an important item, so negotiations continue. So does a feud between Mehsud and nearby tribal leader Maulvi Nazir, who worked with the army last year to expel several...(Read Full Post)