Nothing strange...

I see nothing strange in the news that Pakistan's President, P. Musharraf, has rejected recent Washington's proposal to expand US military presence in his country for executing joint operations with Pakistani military forces against the Taliban and Al-Qaida's militants. To all seeming a former battle-tested soldier and present-day Pakistani dictator, Pervez Musharraf, has succeeded in enlisting British support for making such bold and risky step.
The matter is that shortly before it aides to Pakistani leader have had a number of secret consultations with British diplomats and representatives of UK special services, who in their turn have entered into secret talks with Taliban's leaders, trying to conclude peace with Talibs behind the back of UK overseas allies (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=YVL53CDUOFOSLQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQOIVO?xm1=/news/2007/12/26/wafg126.xml)!
Thus, now we can see another clear example of how Brown's Cabinet continues to follow British neo-colonial ambitions in formulating its foreign policy in the Middle East, aiming for regaining UK initiative in the region, where Great Britain has traditionally high influence.