[DAWN] ’THEY are not us, they are them.’ These days, this is the narrative in vogue in Pakistain. But, suddenly, the interior minister evoked an outdated narrative, drawing comparisons that blur the line between our enemy and us: ’The enemy looks like us.’Pakistain’s Senate echoed with this phrase after the minister uttered it once again in his concluding remarks in a debate on the country’s recent security turmoil. He was explaining the reasons behind the slow progress on investigations into last month’s suicide kaboom in Quetta. By saying that the enemy looks likes us and lives within us, he perhaps wanted to explain that even the enemy eats and sleeps like us. However,
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he failed to impress the enraged opposition leaders, who understood similarities between ’us’ and the ’enemy’ in their own way.