A good assessment of the General's real i.e. dismal commitment to the phoney 'War on Terror' can be found here The General's domestic compulsions i.e. unbridled greed and lust for power, described very well by Steve Coll here. Overall, Pakistan is headed for either Bhutto (unlikely) or chaos (likely), or eventual balkanisation (most likely). A splintered Pakistan solves most problems in the region for e.g. the need to energy-link India with Iran and Central Asia, the Pakhtun question, the Baloch crisis, Kashmir, opium production and drug trafficking - need I go on? okay - Talibanisation of Pakistani society, splintering of the Wahhabi block that has come to define Islamic-terror, nuclear proliferation, etc. etc.
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A good assessment of the General's real i.e. dismal commitment to the phoney 'War on Terror' can be found here
The General's domestic compulsions i.e. unbridled greed and lust for power, described very well by Steve Coll here. Overall, Pakistan is headed for either Bhutto (unlikely) or chaos (likely), or eventual balkanisation (most likely). A splintered Pakistan solves most problems in the region for e.g. the need to energy-link India with Iran and Central Asia, the Pakhtun question, the Baloch crisis, Kashmir, opium production and drug trafficking - need I go on? okay - Talibanisation of Pakistani society, splintering of the Wahhabi block that has come to define Islamic-terror, nuclear proliferation, etc. etc.
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