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The Land of Pure Chaos

Muslihoon wrote two in-depth posts about Pakistan.

Here everything from the ISI to the Pakistan-China cooperation is included.

[...] while Pakistan, per se, is not directly enabling things to get worse, the Pakistani government and military’s unwillingness to do what it takes to completely crush these terrorist networks indirectly enables them to operate with impunity. Furthermore, certain sectors of Pakistan (and, indeed, with the ISI, even the Pakistani government and military) are directly contributing to the resurgence of terrorists.

The second deals with the possible vacuum of power:

The worst case scenario would arise if Islamist generals gain control of Pakistan. This is most possible if they orchestrate a coup or assassination against Musharraf. An Islamist regime would end all assistance to allied forces and may even ally itself with and pledge to assist the Taliban and other Islamist terrorist forces.

That would be a nation of 166 million allying itself with the Islamists. For comparison, the combined population of Afghanistan and Iraq is under 60 million.

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