[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>The politics of despair, the promise of Pakistan</span></b>[/center]
<b><i>In the national interest</i></b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>All is not well. Our country has gone to the dogs. We are about to break up. What will become of us? We are a failed state. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>We have only 10 more years to go as a country.</span></b> How long will we as Pakistanis continue to listen to our armchair analysts who preach doom and gloom?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>There is no smoke without fire. All is not well. Our interior minister disclosed this week that as compared to six incidents of terror in 2006, <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>there were 56 such incidents in 2007.</span> If this is not a wake up call, then what is? The ongoing war in the tribal areas has now forced the government to think of a âShariah packageâ for parts of the NWFP. What can we expect next? <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>If this is not a sign of the Taliban winning then what is?</span></b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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