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Pakistan at Cross-roads: Democracy, Terror and the Politics of Denial by Shaharyar Ali
This is an interesting and (eye popping in its honesty) article by Pakistani writer/blogger Shaharyar Ali.I am posting it here so that it gets a wider...
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