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India-Pakistan
Our fleeting resolve
2015-02-09
The author notices Short Attention Span Syndrome...Whoa! Was that Elvis?
Wait -- I thought it was only Americans who suffer from that particular problem, because we are such a young nation, and a mongrel nation at that.
[DAWN] "IT'S easier to convince people of something, but hard to keep them convinced ... the crowd is won over by appearances and final results ... and the world is a crowd," Machiavelli had counselled. Let's not hold our breath for final results because if appearances after Shikarpur are anything to go by, our post-Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
 moment of hope and resolve has dissipated. It is becoming evident that our civil-military elite hasn't given up its policy of prevarication on terror, ie some manifestations of it, like Shikarpur, are acceptable and others, like Peshawar, are not.
Posted by:Fred

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