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Bowing down to the Taliban
Pakistan's military remains more concerned about a conflict with India than about Islamist terror at home. As a result, it accepts Talibanization as a necessary evil, allowing, for example, such changes as women no longer being accepted as customers in restaurants or tailors' shops -- even in Lahore, a liberal major city home to many intellectuals. "The influence of the extremists is being ignored and it's spreading like a virus," observes Gregor Enste, director of the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Lahore.
Pakistan in Peril - The New York Review of Books
The real potential global flash point that is being mostly ignored... and a stark example of the hollowness of the claims that actions since 9/11 have "protected America"
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