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India-Pakistan
State failure or failed state?
2014-10-26
It's Pakistan, so whatever the details the answer is yes
. [DAWN] That Osama bin Laden lived in urban Pakistan undiscovered by the authorities or with their connivance was bad enough; that the US Special Forces were able to find and eliminate him deep inside our country was clearly an intelligence failure for which heads should have rolled.

But, of course, since the blame for this failure could be laid squarely on the countryâs so-called premier intelligence agency, as such matters are its responsibility alone, the then director-general made a perfunctory offer before parliament to resign.

This particular officerâs claim to fame to this day is his disdain for civilian politicians and the elected set-up. So, our elected public representative saw an opportunity to keep him onside by pleasing him. They didnât accept his offered resignation. In fact, he was lauded for the âunprecedentedâ gesture.
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