In essence, asking Pakistan to redouble its efforts was the flip side of asking “do more” expressing that Pakistan’s efforts though praiseworthy were short of meeting the required targets. Mattis has not conveyed the measure the US uses to judge whether or not Pakistan had been doing more by redoubling its efforts. With Mattis, Pakistan reiterated its demand of giving workable intelligence to act, as Pakistan wanted act on its soil on its own. The tyranny is that despite all objections to “do more” or “redouble”, Pakistan is in no position to end its participation in the war. In short, it is not easy for Pakistan to say “no more” or “no redouble” just because Pakistan is sovereign to do so.

Source: Pakistan Today December 07, 2017 03:22 UTC