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Originally Posted by hiredgun
FWIW, the Pak government is finally going with this line:
Notwithstanding my own belief that AQ was involved, one would expect the Pak state to offer this explanation of events anyway, as this is the interpretation whose logical conclusion is the rallying of the population around its leadership and the abandonment or curtailment (for the time being) of oppositional politics.
True or not, I don't think the explanation will be wholly bought, and so for the moment Pakistan will lurch on, a half-crippled body waiting off-balance for the next crisis to knock it off its feet.
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Well, let's just hope there is a body in Pakistan who can waylay such an event. I fear it would bode very badly for temperance in the region...and elsewhere.
And thank you for your posts on this thread.
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