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Tribal violence and state’s writ: Pakistan faces grave internal security threat

By Kunwar Idris

Prime Minister Gilani’s comforting words for his countrymen that “Pakistan is a sovereign, independent state and no one will be allowed to strike inside its territory” sound more like a cruel joke. Isaf didn’t seek his permission before bombing tribal hamlets in Mohmand, Waziristan and Bajaur, terrorising and killing unwary inhabitants. Nor surely will it in the future if foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s meeting with Condoleezza Rice in Washington is any indication. Qureshi’s public comment after that meeting was typical of subcontinental verbosity. The talks, he said, were “frank, candid, honest and realistic.” Rice’s was terse: “there’s no meeting of minds.”

Against this backdrop it is hardly surprising that while the US has regretted the loss of civilian lives it has not apologised for intrusions into Pakistan’s territory nor has it promised greater caution in the future. On the other hand, instead of saying it themselves the Americans have made their protégé Hamid Karzai say, and say it belligerently, that the retreating terrorists will be chased and killed wherever found in Pakistan. For his threat he relies on the right of hot pursuit in war, forgetting that the two countries are not at war but waging war together, so to say, against a common enemy.

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