Pakistan - News and Discussion -7

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/world/eu...12pakistan.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Pakistan’s Help in Averting a Terror Attack Is a Double-Edged Sword

...For Pakistan, success of this kind is a double-edged word. It allows Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to exhibit the country’s importance as a front-line ally in the global war against terror. It is also a tacit acknowledgment that Pakistan remains a nexus for would-be terrorists from halfway across the world.

...General Musharraf’s vocal support for American counterterrorist efforts has not always been matched by action. But the administration is reluctant to do anything that might add to the pressure on the Pakistani president, leader of an impoverished nuclear-armed nation of some 280 million people.
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280 million, how fast they are breeding <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->“The Taliban go to Pakistan for resupply, with their wounded, they have good cross-border communications, that is established intelligence,” a Western diplomat in Kabul said, asking not to be identified for fear of upsetting Pakistan. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->