Dengan memuji peranan militer Pakistan dalam pembagian informasi mengenai gerilyawan, Richards mengatakan bahwa alasan Taliban jatuh pada 2006 adalah kerja sama erat antara pasukan-pasukan militer dan kepolisian di kedua sisi perbatasan.
Commending the Pakistani army's role in sharing information on the insurgents, Richards said that the reason the Taliban had failed in 2006 was the close cooperation between armies and police forces on both sides of the border.