Twirp : Terrorist Wahabi Islamic Republic Pakistan 3

[Naresh]

<b>Alarmism does not help</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is impossible to do away with the Taliban now just because we are worried that they may soon encroach into our own spaces. <b>It is necessary instead to recognise that the Taliban's accession to the position they occupy today is a logical culmination of the Pakistani state project as it has been conceived and executed since at least 1978.</b> As I have repeated ad nauseam on these pages, the state ideology is projected through the educational curriculum, the popular media, the systematic dismantling of organic bases of politics, and many other, structural, factors.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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