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‘If We Now Kill Schoolgirls, You Shouldn’t Be Surprised’ – Taliban

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WTF Muslims I would be surprised if you stopped. No one is surprised when you butcher women or pour acid on them.

From Der Spiegel:

By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada in Kunduz, Afghanistan

Responding to threats from the Taliban, at least 10 girls’ schools have shut down near Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. Visiting the schools is a dangerous proposition — a trip leading directly into the heart of Islamist territory.

When the deputy director of Aqtash High School talks of the government, he isn’t referring to Hamid Karzai’s central government in Kabul. Nor does he refer to the provincial administration in Kunduz. “The Taliban are our government,” Bashir says. “They have taken over our region, their commanders give the orders here.”

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Bashir is standing in a dusty classroom on the ground floor of his modern school, roughly half an hour from Kunduz by car. As recently as just one month ago, he says, some 400 girls were still coming to the school in three daily shifts to learn reading, writing and arithmetic. Figures and formula are still scrawled across the blackboard.

But now, the girls’ classrooms have been left to deteriorate. The desks and chairs are still laid out in neat rows, but a film of dust has collected, and Bashir stands helplessly in the middle of the room. “Parents in Aqtash are afraid to send their girls to school anymore, after the death threats,” he explains. The school director speaks quietly and carefully. He too is afraid, and several of his teachers double as informants for the Taliban. The bearded fighters, he says, would certainly not like it if they knew a reporter was at the school in Aqtash. “You should leave quickly if you want to get out of Aqtash alive,” he whispers.

‘Apprehended and Killed’

Bashir’s warning is hardly an exaggeration. Not 30 minutes after our arrival in Aqtash, located 15 kilometers northeast of Kunduz just off the main north-south arterial, a group of a dozen Taliban fighters, armed with AK-47s, gathers in front of the blue arch at the entrance to the school. “What do you want here?” one of the fighters calls. “This is our region, the Islamic Emirate of North Afghanistan.” Continue Reading →

PBS on the Taliban, use of children as weapons, Islam and Pakistan

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This video from PBS:



Despite this journalists wonderful detachment and staunch effort to show an even objective expose of this issue and these people, it is difficult not to notice the fear she hides when she is face to face with some young turdburger who tells her the government must treat women as plastic bags. You can see she is in immediate danger for her life if she argues the point. These people, Islam, does not debate. These are not Jews. Much of this documentary has nothing new for readers of Vlad. But there are still some shocking revelations about  how serious Islam really is in terms of illiberal values and it’s ambitions for the rest of us, and perhaps mpore interestingly, when PBS does an expose showing the horrors of Islam to this extent. you know things are bad. We expect the facts from FOX when they may not be PC. Its quite another thing when PBS calls it like it is.
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A defence you can garden with. The Sidiqi trial continues:

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Once it’s finished you can fertilize a whole public park with it. I wonder where I can get a job holding a gun for someone who pay’s me $500.00 a month. Hell Ill hold 4 of them and never bother working at all. I guess as he say’s in the last couple of paragraphs, he has a part time job making martyrs as well.

From the Ottawa Citizen:

After shooting his sister and her fiancé, there was silence, Hasibullah Sadiqi told a jury on Friday. He remembered his ears ringing, and a .44 Magnum revolver in his hand.

Sadiqi, his sister, Khatera, and her fiancé, Feroz Mangal, had been out for dinner and movie with friends that night in September 2006.

On their way back to the Elmvale Acres shopping plaza, where Sadiqi had left his car, it was “pretty tense” as they entered the parking lot, Sadiqi testified at his murder trial.

Conversation had turned to their father, from whom Khatera was estranged, Sadiqi said.

Sadiqi told the court he had wanted his sister to speak to their father or at least respect and understand that he was “there for us,” during their youth. Sadiqi had hoped Mangal, as “an Afghani guy too and as a man,” would take his side and back him up, but instead, he stuck up for Khatera, Sadiqi testified.

Sadiqi said he tried to persuade his sister that their family needed unity around the engagement time, but the couple was being “hard-headed.”

Frustrated, Sadiqi eventually left the car and gave a dismissive wave, he testified. Then, he said, Mangal spoke.

“He said, ‘f— you, f— your father, f— your sister. I’ll bring your sister’s dead body to the wedding before I ever let her talk to your father. F— you,” Sadiqi told the court.

“Right there, I just exploded,” Sadiqi said.

“I felt like a thunderbolt hit my head, like I got shot, like someone broke a beer bottle on my head. Right there, I just lost total control. After that, I don’t know, I don’t remember.

“I remember that everything goes silent. Everything goes silent and my ears — my ear is ringing and I see the gun in my hand and I know something went wrong. I know that something is not right.”

Surveillance video shown to the jury shows flashes — believed to be gunshots — that start 46 seconds after the car entered the parking lot.

Khatera died at the scene, while Mangal was taken off life support and died 10 days later. Sadiqi faces two counts of first-degree murder in what the Crown argues was an “honour killing” sparked by anger over the couple’s engagement.

Lawyers representing Sadiqi are expected to argue he was provoked.

Under questioning from his lawyer, Lorne Goldstein, Sadiqi said he never formulated a plan to kill his sister, that he had never thought about killing her nor Mangal, and that he never had specific intent to cause their death.

Tribal differences were not an issue and the killings were not done to provide cleansing, he said. Asked what killing his sister did to the honour of the Sadiqi family, Sadiqi replied: “Damage it.”

Sadiqi said he was saddened and ashamed by what he had done. He described being confused, shocked and scared after the shooting, and eventually turned himself in.

Sadiqi said he had not sought bail after being arrested because he wanted to take responsibility.

On Friday, the Crown wrapped up its case with testimony from one of Mangal’s brothers — who described Khatera’s joy at living with the Mangal family — before Sadiqi took the stand.
With his black hair slicked back and wearing a grey suit and light blue shirt unbuttoned at the collar, Sadiqi, 23, said he had been holding the gun and some ammunition for a friend of a friend since early 2006, for $500 per month.

He said he usually kept the gun in his home, but had it in his car, under the driver’s seat, because the friend of a friend had asked him to keep it close in case that person needed it, he said.

But when faced by repeated questions by assistant Crown attorney Mark Moors regarding details of the friends and the gun, Sadiqi refused to identify the people or location where he’d received the weapon, even when directed to do so by Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford.

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National Post: Supreme court Afghan detainees have no Charter rights

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A member of Reconnaissance Platoon, 1st Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, guards suspected Taliban prisoners captured in a raid on a compound in Northern Kandahar, 10 May 2006.JOHN D MCHUGH/AFP/Getty ImagesA member of Reconnaissance Platoon, 1st Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, guards suspected Taliban prisoners captured in a raid on a compound in Northern Kandahar, 10 May 2006.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada declined Thursday to be the final referee on whether the Charter of Rights should apply abroad to protect Afghan detainees whom Canadian forces have handed over to Afghan authorities.

Amnesty International Canada and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association have been fighting the matter in court for two years, arguing that the charter obligations of Canadian soldiers should not end at the border and must apply to “government agents acting in foreign countries.”

A three-judge panel, by convention, gave no reasons for refusing to consider the case.

The two groups wanted the Supreme Court to overturn two Federal Court decisions that found the Charter of Rights does not cover Afghan citizens because international law protecting the sovereignty of other counties precludes it.

Amnesty and the B.C. association contend that the charter should prohibit Canadian soldiers from taking part in prisoner transfers when there are grounds to believe the detainees will be tortured by their captors.

The Supreme Court’s decision effectively upholds a December 2008 ruling in the Federal Court of Appeal, which had refused to overturn an earlier Federal Court decision.

The Supreme Court has ruled in the past that the charter does not apply abroad.

Muslims in NYC calling for jihad in US etc. blah blah yada yada wuzza wuzza

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My favorite part is where he calls for stopping the attacks in Swat and Pakistan against Muslims who “just want to pray and worship” etc. when in fact they want to commit genocide against non Muslims in the area and enforce sharia law on all Muslims and non Muslims alike. Hell the vast majority of the refugees from the Taliban and Al Queda ARE Muslims who want nothing to do with them.

For the second time in a month, Muslims attempt to mass poison girls for going to school.

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I dare anyone to come up with a more evil act than this. Islam is some sick twisted shit and I lose patience with those who defend it or trick themseleves into moral relativism. Hat tip Grace:

From Canada’s National Post:

For more photos and info please also visit this link to the Telegraph UK

A doctor checks on female students in a hospital in Charikar, Afghanistan, May 11, 2009. Nearly 50 Afghan teenagers are in hospital after a mystery gas attack on a girls' school.Omar Sobhani/ReutersA doctor checks on female students in a hospital in Charikar, Afghanistan, May 11, 2009. Nearly 50 Afghan teenagers are in hospital after a mystery gas attack on a girls’ school.

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — Nearly 50 teenagers were admitted to hospital after a suspected mass poisoning at an Afghan girls’ school, a doctor said on Monday, in the second such incident in a month.

The headmaster rushed his students out of their classrooms in the northern town of Charikar after they smelt an unusual odour and started feeling nauseous and dizzy, a 17-year-old victim told Reuters from her hospital bed.

“I am pretty sure whoever has done this is against education for girls, but I strongly ask the parents not to be discouraged by such brutal action and send their children to school,” said Noor Jahan, a ninth grader at Ura Jalili Girls’ High School.

In another room a mother sat beside her unconscious daughter’s bed, crying and rubbing the girl’s forehead. Around her lay several dazed and pale schoolmates.

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Canada appeals court decision to repatriate Omar Khadr

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I am so proud of Canada right now: From Canada’s National Post hat tip Grace

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Omar Khadr at a hearing at the U.S. Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in a court sketch.
Photograph by: Janet Hamlin, AFP/Getty Images

OTTAWA — The Harper government is appealing a court decision ordering it to repatriate Canadian Omar Khadr from the Guantanamo Bay prison.

“The Government of Canada has consistently stated that Omar Khadr faces serious charges,” the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Friday. “After careful consideration of the legal merits of the ruling from the Canadian Federal Court issued on April 23, the Government of Canada has decided to appeal the decision.”

The government said it would not offer additional comments since the matter was before the courts.

Khadr was first arrested in 2002 and charged in connection with the death of a U.S. soldier..

But lawyers for Khadr, 22, have argued he was used as a child soldier and should be considered as a victim of war since he was only 15 at the time of his arrest.

In the Federal Court ruling last month, Justice James O’Reilly issued a stinging decision that chastised Ottawa at every turn for its failure to help Khadr during years of “mistreatment” at the U.S. military unit in Cuba.

O’Reilly concluded the “ongoing refusal” to pressure the U.S. government for Khadr’s release violates his charger rights and Canada’s international human rights. He also noted the U.S. has granted requests from other countries for the repatriation of prisoners.

“The principles of fundamental justice obliged Canada to protect Mr. Khadr by taking appropriate steps to ensure that his treatment accorded with international human rights norms,” O’Reilly wrote in a ruling that dismissed every federal argument.

“To mitigate the effect of that violation, Canada must present a request to the United States for Mr. Khadr’s repatriation to Canada as soon as practicable.”

O’Reilly’s ruling took into account Khadr was given no special status as a minor even though he was barely 16 when he arrived at Guantanamo Bay in October 2002, and he had virtually no contact with anyone outside the military camp for two years before he met with his lawyers for the first time.

But Prime Minister Stephen Harper has maintained Khadr was accused of “serious crimes.” Continue Reading →

Confirmed by Stratfor: Taliban lures Pakistani security for talks, kidnaps them

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April 28, 2009 from Weaselzipper

Pakistan: Taliban Kidnap 71 Cops, Frontier Guards in Buner After Luring Them to Mosque for Talks….

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I sense a whole lot of headless corpses in the not-so-distant future……

PESHAWAR: Armed militants in Pir Baba area of Buner district took hostage, at least, 71 security officials after inviting them to talks in a local mosque near the famous shrine, a source from the troubled district told The News.

It was learnt that those who were made hostage included the station house officer (SHO) of the Pir Baba police station, his 20 cops and around 50 personnel of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC).

The sources said that the militants had invited the SHO and other cops to the mosque for talks at around 7:00 pm. They were later made hostage and armed militants were directed not to let any of them go outside. It may be mentioned here that the FC is at the disposal of the local police in Buner as is the case in several other troubled areas.

Deals with the devil. The crossroads in Pakistan

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Below please find an article from earthtimes.org keeping in mind, these are the people who the government of Pakistan made a peace deal with, which was immediately breached by the Taliban, unsurprisingly. I hope never again to read the phrase ‘suicide bomber nursery’ again as long as I or anyone else lives.

suicide_bomber_training_5Tank, Pakistan – Haneef Mehsud was a normal teenager who spend most of his time hanging out with friends and playing cricket before he was recruited by the Taliban and turned into a suicide bomber. Less than a month after his 17th birthday, Haneef killed two soldiers when he rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into an army convoy in late 2008 on a road not far from his home in Pekai, a hamlet in the militancy-plagued South Waziristan region of northern Pakistan.

“We tried to stop him when he visited the family two weeks before the attack and informed us that he was soon going to embrace shahadat,” or martyrdom, Haneef’s father, Ghazi Mehsud, recalled. “I don’t know what they [the Taliban] did to my son,” Ghazi said as tears rolled down his cheeks and disappeared in his long grey beard. “His mother and sisters were crying, but he stood there like a stone. He only requested us to forgive him in the name of the love we had for him and left.”Ghazi moved to the neighbouring district of Tank in the North-West Frontier Province, which is also the gateway to South Waziristan, to save his second teenage son from the influence of his fellow tribesman and local warlord Baitullah Mehsud, who he blames for Haneef’s recruitment and death. But hundreds more children are still undergoing brainwashing at dozens of “suicide nurseries” run by the ethnic Pashtun militant commander. Mehsud, in his 30s, has emerged as the most dangerous militant commander in recent years. He heads Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella group for around a dozen Pakistani militant outfits and has close links with al-Qaeda. Continue Reading →

Women pelted with stones in Afganistan for protesting new pro rape law

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AfghanistanFrom Ottawa’s Metro daily paper:

KABUL – Dozens of young women braved crowds of bearded men screaming “dogs!” on Wednesday to protest an Afghan law that lets husbands demand sex from their wives. Some of the men picked up small stones and pelted the women.

“Slaves of the Christians!” chanted the 800 or so counter-demonstrators, a mix of men and women. A line of female police officers locked hands to keep the groups apart.

The warring protests highlight the explosive nature of the women’s rights debate in Afghanistan. Both sides are girding for battle over the legislation, which has sparked an international uproar since being quietly signed into law last month.

The law says a husband can demand sex with his wife every four days, unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse. It also regulates when and for what reasons a wife may leave her home without a male escort.
Though the law would apply only to the country’s Shiites, who make up less than 20 per cent of Afghanistan’s 30 million people, many fear its passage marks a return to Taliban-style oppression of women. The Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001, required women to wear all-covering burkas and banned them from leaving home unless accompanied by a male relative.

Governments and rights groups around the world, including Canada, have condemned the legislation, and U.S. President Barack Obama has labelled it “abhorrent.” Afghan President Hamid Karzai has remanded the law to the Justice Department for review and put enforcement on hold.

A host of Afghan intellectuals, politicians and even a number of cabinet ministers have come out against the law. But those who decry the legislation face quick criticism from conservative Muslim clerics and their followers, as Wednesday’s protests showed.

“You are a dog! You are not a Shiite woman!” one man shouted to a young woman in a head scarf.

The woman, who held a banner reading “We don’t want Taliban law,” replied quietly: “This is my land and my people.”

The demonstrators chose a risky spot to hold their protest – in front of the mosque of the legislation’s main backer – and were easily outnumbered by supporters of the law. They said many women had been stopped on their way to the protest.

In the end, more women demonstrated in favour of the law than against it, with a few hundred Shiite women marching with banners to join the angry men. They blamed foreigners for inciting the protests.

“We don’t want foreigners interfering in our lives. They are the enemy of Afghanistan,” said Mariam Sajadi, 24.

Sajadi is engaged to be married, and said she plans to ask her husband’s permission to leave the house as put forth in the law. She said other articles – such as the one allowing husbands to demand sex – have been misinterpreted by westerners prejudiced against Islam. She did not elaborate.

On the other side of the shouting, Mehri Rezai, 32, urged her countrymen to reject the law.

“This law treats women as if we were sheep,” she said.

Both sides say they are defending their constitutional rights but Afghanistan’s constitution is unclear. It defers to Islamic law as the highest authority, but also guarantees equal rights for women.

Abbas Noyan, a Shiite legislator who opposes the law, said he is hopeful it will be changed. But others are less sure, and even the country’s minister of women’s affairs, who is female, has declined to comment on the law.

New York-based Human Rights Watch maintains that the judicial review ordered by Karzai is unlikely to be truly independent because those leading the process come from a conservative Shiite background.

Canadian dies in Afghan blast

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What exactly is Canada’s role in Afghanistan? When our military was first deployed it was done so provide security and support then to hunt Al Qaeda. Now it finds itself as the defenders of Afghan communities which is essentially a peacekeeping role and an offencive battle group. I cannot help but think a little more clarification would go a long way to keeping our brave soldiers safer.

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Globe and Mail Update

April 14, 2009 at 5:15 AM EDT

Kandahar, Afghanistan — On a day that was to be reserved for the pomp and ceremony of the Canadian battlegroup’s change of command here, soldiers are instead mourning the death of Canada’s 117th casualty in Afghanistan.

Trooper Karine Blais, 21, was only the second Canadian female soldier to die in combat. She lost her life around 5 p.m. Monday in the often mountainous district of Shah Wali Kowt, north of Kandahar city, when the vehicle she was riding in struck a deadly improvised explosive device.

“This young woman’s life did not go to waste,” said Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance in a statement released Tuesday morning in Kandahar. “Her life was lost in the pursuit of peace and stability,” he said.

Trooper Blais, from 12e Régiment Blindé du Canada based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, was serving with the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment Battle Group – the famed francophone regiment nicknamed the Van Doos. She had only been on the ground in Kandahar for two weeks.

“She was an energetic soldier who gave 100 per cent to every challenge she faced, using a unique sense of humour, based on her honesty,” Brig.-Gen. Vance said. “Frank and direct, she demonstrated the qualities of a future leader who was respected by all members of her squadron,” he said.

Four of Trooper Blais’ comrades were also injured in the blast. They were ultimately airlifted to the medical facility at Kandahar air field following the incident, although fierce sand and rain storms delayed the helicopter Monday night.

Two remained in hospital Tuesday morning.

This is the Quebec-based battlegroup’s first death on their six-month tour. Although it officially begins Tuesday, soldiers have been phased into their posts across Kandahar over the past couple of weeks.

“The days and months ahead will be extremely difficult for those who knew Karine, and we must stand together to support all of those for whom she had a profound effect,” said Brig.-Gen. Vance. “Her dedication to the overall mission is commendable.”

Trooper Blais leaves behind her mother Josée, her grandmother Laurette and one brother, Billy.

Womens Rights Activist Murdered in Afghanistan

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Sitara Achakzi

Sitara Achakzi

From the Globe and Mail April12-2009

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — In the hour before her killers pulled up beside the rickshaw and shot her at close range, Sitara Achakzai turned to a female politician riding beside her with a strange look.

“I’m not afraid of death,” said Ms. Achakzai, a well-known women’s rights advocate and one of three elected women sitting on Kandahar’s provincial council. “I can go and get killed and it’s no big deal.”

Ms. Achakzai’s friend, a provincial councillor who narrowly escaped death in a bombing at council headquarters less than two weeks ago, was so stunned by the comment, made just before the rickshaw pulled up to her stop, she got out without asking what prompted the revelation. Not long after, news came yesterday that she would never have another chance.

Ms. Achakzai, a dual Afghan and German citizen who returned to help rebuild her country in 2004, was shot at close range by gunmen on motorbikes before her rickshaw could finish the slow crawl back to her home. Continue Reading →

Australian news: Pakistan in danger of collapse

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Warning that Pakistan is in danger of collapse within months (Thanks to GOV for the tip)

Paul McGeough

April 13, 2009


David Kilcullen... Pakistan keeps him awake at night.David Kilcullen… Pakistan keeps him awake at night. Photo: Supplied
PAKISTAN could collapse within months, one of the more influential counter-insurgency voices in Washington says.

The warning comes as the US scrambles to redeploy its military forces and diplomats in an attempt to stem rising violence and anarchy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“We have to face the fact that if Pakistan collapses it will dwarf anything we have seen so far in whatever we’re calling the war on terror now,” said David Kilcullen, a former Australian Army officer who was a specialist adviser for the Bush administration and is now a consultant to the Obama White House.

“You just can’t say that you’re not going to worry about al-Qaeda taking control of Pakistan and its nukes,” he said.

As the US implements a new strategy in Central Asia so comprehensive that some analysts now dub the cross-border conflict “Obama’s war”, Dr Kilcullen said time was running out for international efforts to pull both countries back from the brink.

When he unveiled his new “Afpak” policy in Washington last month, the US President, Barack Obama, warned that while al-Qaeda would fill the vacuum if Afghanistan collapsed, the terrorist group was already rooted in Pakistan, plotting more attacks on the US.

“The safety of people round the world is at stake,” he said.

Laying out the scale of the challenges facing the US in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Dr Kilcullen put the two countries invaded by US-led forces after the September 11 attacks on the US on a par – each had a population of more than 30 million.

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Islamist terrorists pushing Pakistan towards collapse

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Peter Goodspeed, National Post Published: Friday, April 10, 2009

Pakistani soldiers rush towards the scene of an attack by terrorists in Lahore. Extremists aligned with al-Qaeda and the Taliban have staged many attacks in the South Asian country.Mohsin Raza/ReutersPakistani soldiers rush towards the scene of an attack by terrorists in Lahore. Extremists aligned with al-Qaeda and the Taliban have staged many attacks in the South Asian country.

After U.S. lawmakers warned Pakistan was on the verge of becoming a failed state, Islamist terrorists are doing their best to make their prediction come true, operating with seeming impunity in the country’s heartland.

“Pakistan is on a rapid trajectory toward becoming a failing or failed state,” says the report of the Atlantic Council task force, led by Chuck Hagel, the former Nebraska senator, and Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts.

“We cannot stress the magnitude of the dangers enough nor the need for greater action now. Pakistan faces dire economic and security threats that threaten both the existence of Pakistan as a democratic and stable state and the region as a whole.”

“We’re now reaching the point where, within one to six months, we could see the collapse of the Pakistani state,” adds David Kilcullen, an Australian guerrilla warfare specialist who advised U.S. General David Petraeus in Iraq.

“Pakistan is 173 million people, 100 nuclear weapons, an army bigger than the U.S. Army and al-Qaeda headquarters sitting right there in the two thirds of the country that the government doesn’t control,” he recently told The Washington Post.

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