The Pakistani senator gazed at the headline in despair. It read "US weighs
new covert push in Pakistan". Washington was authorising "enhanced CIA
activity" in the country while Democratic candidates declared they were all
ready "to launch unilateral military strikes in [Pakistan] if they detected
an imminent threat." Hillary Clinton wanted "joint US/UK oversight" of
Pakistan's nuclear weapons. In a country where anti-Americanism is almost a
religion, said the senator, this is "an answer to a Taliban prayer."
I am convinced that those whom the gods...
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