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India-Pakistan |
Lives that mattered |
2014-01-19 |
[DAWN] THE interior minister says efforts aimed at negotiating peace with the Taliban have been restarted and that his counterterrorism strategy is nearly ready. On both these counts, we'll have to take Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan's word as whatever is happening here is happening behind closed doors. Let's look at what is in the public domain: an unchecked existential threat to the country which has claimed thousands of lives so far. Also, while the counterterrorism strategy is nearing its final shape, or so we are told, a series of moves by the ![]() ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... government has filled one with disdain. |
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