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Tribal violence and state’s writ: Pakistan faces grave internal security threat

 By Kunwar Idris

Prime Minister Gilani’s comforting words for his countrymen that “Pakistan is a sovereign, independent state and no one will be allowed to strike inside its territory” sound more like a cruel joke. Isaf didn’t seek his permission before bombing tribal hamlets in Mohmand, Waziristan and Bajaur, terrorising and killing unwary inhabitants. Nor surely will it in the future if foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s meeting with Condoleezza Rice in Washington is any indication. Qureshi’s public comment after that meeting was typical of subcontinental verbosity. The talks, he said, were “frank, candid, honest and realistic.” Rice’s was terse: “there’s no meeting of minds.”

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