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...bomb to make a point in Pakistan these days. Suicide attacks have become so depressingly common that small incidents can be forgotten within hours. But when a bomber driving a truck packed with 1,300 lb. (600 kg) of high-grade explosives rammed the front gate of Islamabad's Marriott hotel on Sept. 20, the explosion destroyed the hotel, killed at least 60, injured hundreds and sent a powerful reminder to anyone who had not yet got the message: Pakistan is now the central front in the war between the U.S. and its allies and radical Islam...
Since the Mumbai attacks, Zardari's government has maintained that it has acted responsibly, cracking down on members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group blamed for the attacks, and Jamaat-ud-Dawa, its affiliate charity. In response to increasingly vocal demands from New Delhi that Islamabad act more decisively, Zardari's government has argued that it cannot take any more action until it is provided with credible evidence - something Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee says his government has already provided. (See pictures of Mumbai sifting through the rubble...
...Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari dismissed the incident at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday, calling it a "technical incursion - two planes flying 50,000 miles up in the air; when they turned, they slightly entered Pakistan soil." Brown was in Islamabad after visiting India and Afghanistan to discuss security in the wake of the Mumbai attacks...
...dollars in commerce to each country, looked extremely promising in the days just before the Mumbai attacks. And, most ironically, Pakistan’s foreign minister was in Delhi on a diplomatic visit when terrorists laid siege to Mumbai. These moves indicated a desire in both Delhi and Islamabad to abandon their difficult past and chart a productive future of cooperation. Then, Mumbai happened...
...Holbrooke is a great negotiator, but he's also a great intimidator, and the first step toward resolving the war in Afghanistan is to lay down the law in both Islamabad and Kabul. The message should be the same in both cases: The unsupervised splurge of American aid is over. The Pakistanis will have to stop giving tacit support and protection to terrorists, especially the Afghan Taliban. The Karzai government will have to end its corruption and close down the drug trade. There are plenty of other reforms necessary - the international humanitarian effort is a shabby, self-righteous mess; some...