This is a well-researched and written piece. All the factors that make Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world are accounted for. Its descent into the abyss started a long time ago, I might add, and the longer and the more insistent the denial, the weaker its grip on restoration. Pakistan will be ruled by the Taleban, and call them whatever you may, the Taleban have so far deftly handled their influence upon the Pakistani security and intelligence apparatus. But their greatest ally is the religious establishment and the madrassas, for without their committed and persistent championing of their cause and purpose in Islam and the Ummah, it would peter out. Instead it is postured to grow, take control of Pakistani society, control its weapons, all I might add, as it has done its foreign and domestic policies. To all who know, the talebanization of Pakistan is inexorable, certain, and extremely dangerous. I would have wished the author to briefly explore the reasons why democracy is anathema in Pakistani society, what are the national goals of Pakistan, if these are anywhere enunciated, and how terror is the most natural outcome. His prognosis, not prophetic, but deductive would have helped those who are proud to be Pakistanis to ask, of which Pakistan am I proud, and to seriously recraft the foundation principles for a new county, the "True" Pakistan.









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