Losing Pakistan?

Saifullah Khan Mahsud, a Research Analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore:

To the dismay of the powerful and fiercely independent Pushtun tribes inhabiting the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan has deployed more than a 100,000 soldiers in the region and in the event it has jeopardized the security that it enjoyed on its western borders with Afghanistan. It has lost more than a thousand of its best soldiers fighting these elements, it has faced and continues to face numerous terrorist strikes in the shape of suicide attacks and bombings in the country and moreover, its extensive ongoing ground operations against the extremist elements in the Swat Valley have proved largely successful.

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