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| India-Pakistan |
| What links Kasur, Karachi? |
| 2015-08-15 |
| [DAWN] THE political class in Pakistain is a maligned bunch even where there is no justification but where it falters, people in general and commentators in particular swoop on it with vigour and glee as it is seen as a soft target. Very few among our current crop of commentators trace the roots of the country's current travails to three to four distinct and mostly prolonged periods of military rule during which the corruption, patronage and terrorism that plague us today were institutionalised. Of course once the current military leadership decided that militancy, at least of the denominations it didn't or couldn't control anymore, had to be rooted out, there could be no discussion on how and why terrorism bedded down in the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |