...d Lashkar-e-Taiba. And you had Osama bin Laden hiding in the basement this whole time. We both know what these people do, and that makes it all the more inexcusable. That these terrorist organizations have ties to the upper echelons of your military and intelligence services is even more frustrating. I’m never sure exactly what secrets you are going to give my enemies, and I never know for certain what you are saying behind my back (I as...
Illustration by Esha Maharishi From the unannounced raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound that surprised and humiliated Pakistani officials, to a badly botched NATO operation that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, 2011 was not a great year for US-Pakistani relations. Many American policymakers are dismayed that neither friendship nor financial assistance has induced Pakistan to cooperate with American objectives in South Asia. Moreover, the strategic...
On October 7, 2010 the peace of the Sufi shrine in Karachi, a building with green and white mosaics ascending to a cupola, shattered in a double explosion from two suicide bombers, killing seven civilians and injuring 65 others. As the shrine’s tiles lay smashed in the street, the destroyed temple provided a visual symbol of a derelict Pakistani government torn apart by a new wave of violent domestic terrorism. Since 2005, militant organizations...
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