Pakistan: Again, Pakistan's Defense Forces Work

Shah, Saeed. "Pakistani tribal chiefs threaten to join Taliban· US warned of uprising if armed incursions continue · New counter-terror policy backfires on Washington." The Guardian, September 15, 2008.

Above all, and now that the "antibodies" are moving around the mountains, do not make the patient worse.

Pakistan's officer class, which may well share much with peers in other modernized military operations, would benefit little, that I can see, from continuing to overlook Al Qaeda or Taliban administrations or operations, however small or few, in its border regions. It has plenty of muscle itself for managing affairs in Kashmir; the timbre of its educational requirements and credits plus adopted hobbies of all sorts would seem to oppose, subvert, or undermine the Taliban's rigid form of authority.

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