Strike at ‘den of Western decadence’

Strike at ‘den of Western decadence’

By Jason Burke

The target of yesterday’s lethal and devastating attack in the heart of Islamabad should not come as a surprise. The Marriott hotel has always been in the sights of militants. For a long time it was the Pakistani capital’s only luxury hotel, and remains the favoured haunt of the capital’s Westernised elite. It stands only a few hundred metres from the National Assembly, opposite a compound of ministers’ residences and next to the new offices of Pakistan state TV. An attack on the Marriott is a strike to the heart of the Pakistani state and the perceived elite of a nation of 173 million people.

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