Editing Strategic depth (section)

===Accusations against the Pakistan military===
The term "strategic depth" has been used in reference to [[Pakistan]]'s utilization and contact with [[Afghanistan]] following the neighboring country's [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan|Soviet intervention]], to prevent encirclement from a hostile [[India]] and a [[USSR]]-supported Afghanistan.<ref name="DIIS">{{cite web|url=http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/Reports2011/RP2011-08-Pakistans-future-policy_web.pdf|title=Pakistan's future policy towards Afghanistan|last=Siddique|first=Qandeel|work=Danish Institute for International Studies|access-date=3 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105160647/http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/Reports2011/RP2011-08-Pakistans-future-policy_web.pdf|archive-date=5 November 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Some sources state that the policy to control Afghanistan was formulated by [[National Defense University, Islamabad|NDU]] professor, General [[Mirza Aslam Beg]],<ref name="TSR20100517">{{cite web|url=http://bellum.stanfordreview.org/?p=2184|title=The Afghan Taliban and Pakistan's 'Strategic Depth'|date=17 May 2010|work=[[The Stanford Review]]|access-date=3 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101108184525/http://bellum.stanfordreview.org/?p=2184|archive-date=8 November 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> and an Indian source claims this was continued as an active policy by the [[Pakistan Armed Forces]] until the policy was "de jure abolished in 1998 and de facto abolished in 2001", period when General [[Pervez Musharraf]] was the [[Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee|Chairman joint chiefs]].<ref name="Hindu">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2001/11/07/stories/05072523.htm|title=Strategic depth in Afghanistan|date=1 November 2001|access-date=3 October 2011|last1=Raghavan|first1=V. R.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017211658/http://www.hindu.com/2001/11/07/stories/05072523.htm|archive-date=17 October 2011|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to [[Richard G. Olson|Richard Olson]], [[U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan]], Pakistan military's doctrine of "strategic depth" is a concept in which Pakistan uses Afghanistan as an instrument of strategic security in ongoing tensions with [[India]] by attempting to control Afghanistan as a pawn for its own political purposes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/07/the_elusive_alliance|title=The elusive alliance|last=Imtiaz|first=Gul|date=7 August 2012|work=Foreign Policy|access-date=7 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808230145/http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/07/the_elusive_alliance|archive-date=8 August 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

It has been speculated that the [[Pakistan military]]'s "strategic depth" policy is either military or non-military in nature. The military version would state that the Pakistan military wishes to use Afghan territory as a "strategic rallying point" where they can, in the event of a successful Indian attack, retreat to and re-group for a counter-attack. The non-military version would be based on the idea that Pakistan can improve relations with other Islamic countries and [[former Soviet states]] such as [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Kazakhstan]], developing improved economic and cultural ties with them and thus making them into strong allies against India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/aziz-hakimi/af-pak-what-strategic-depth|title=Af-Pak: what is strategic depth?|last=Hakimi|first=Aziz|date=4 February 2010|publisher=opendemocracy.net|access-date=20 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816004718/http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/aziz-hakimi/af-pak-what-strategic-depth|archive-date=16 August 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>