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But as I saw during a fortnight in Islamabad and the North-West Frontier Province, many ordinary Pakistanis now believe their country is fighting for survival against the Taliban and its offshoots, and if they once had sympathies for the extremists, these have now evaporated.
Like Winston Churchill, the parallels with whose 1897 campaign I described in The Mail on Sunday last week, they have no doubt whose side they are on.
'I am very worried about the future of Pakistan,' Talat Masood, a senior retired general told me. 'We have not faced a challenge on this scale before.
says this journalist - very poignantly written artcile on the Taliban in pakistan !!
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But as I saw during a fortnight in Islamabad and the North-West Frontier Province, many ordinary Pakistanis now believe their country is fighting for survival against the Taliban and its offshoots, and if they once had sympathies for the extremists, these have now evaporated.
Like Winston Churchill, the parallels with whose 1897 campaign I described in The Mail on Sunday last week, they have no doubt whose side they are on.
'I am very worried about the future of Pakistan,' Talat Masood, a senior retired general told me. 'We have not faced a challenge on this scale before.
says this journalist - very poignantly written artcile on the Taliban in pakistan !!
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