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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...
Still, the U.S. has to meet Zardari halfway. "They talk about their own war, their demands, asking for more to be done," says Zaffar Abbas, senior editor at Dawn, a well-respected Pakistani daily. "The question being raised is, Why should we become a part of it?" As the Marriott bombing shows, this is their fight...
...attack that was threatening to lay siege to India’s financial capital. As a Pakistani, I watched in horror as the all-to-familiar images of carnage streamed over the television. I was transported back to September 20, when a suicide bomber at Islamabad’s Marriott hotel blew himself up, claiming the lives of 53 people, including two Americans and the Czech ambassador. The crying child in Mumbai who had lost his parents wrenched my heart with pain, as did the image of the Pathan child whose family was instantly killed by an American drone attack...
Even if the perpetrators came from Pakistan, the Mumbai massacre, like the murder of Benazir Bhutto and the bombing of the Islamabad Marriott, proves that India and Pakistan share a common enemy in jihadist terrorism - and they need to put their six decades of mutual hostility behind them in order to fight the extremists...
...defer to the military in all national security matters; he's had a hard time selling Pakistanis in general on the need to wage war on the extremists. The majority of his fellow citizens oppose cooperation with U.S. efforts against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Even after the Marriott bombing, Pakistan's parliament called for negotiations rather than force to be the dominant response to the militants...