Pakistan wakes up to the hatred within

The Daily Times, Pakistan ^ | 15 July | Ahmed Rashid

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For the past two decades a small number of militants have killed and maimed their fellow citizens in the name of Islam, various Islamic sects or self-created concepts of male honour. These killing fields in the name of Islam, abhorred by the majority of their fellow citizens, were then exported abroad where Pakistani militant groups supported fellow extremists in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Chechnya and the former Yugoslavia.

Pakistani extremists have been closely linked to the army which saw in them a cheap and non-attributable opportunity to keep India at bay, maintain the country’s Islamic influence abroad and undermine any chance of civilian democracy at home.

This “military-mulla” alliance is widely assumed to have been born in 1977 after the army coup that bought General Ziaul Haq to power. However in a new book called Pakistan — between Mosque and Military, scholar-diplomat Hussain Haqqani shows how the alliance goes back as far as 1951..

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Wouldn't want Musharraf's job or GW's dealing with him. A slamist nation that's always on the edge of civil war. We have to do what we can, I guess. We can't invade. We know they have nukes. Try to keep him in power, the alternative isn't pretty. Course India is looking friendly and are arch enemies of crapistan, which squeezes them in the middle. I know that we are doing a lot more in the border region than the media tells you.