On a quick screen reading another excellent descriptive piece, but the concluding pages are full of gems. Far better than the recent CFR paper, for example dismissive of US aid to the Frontier Corps. Even manages an optimstic tone rarely heard when Pakistan is the subject.

The squabbling between Afghanistan and Pakistan is one issue; another is the rivalry between ISI and India's RAW. Still un-answered is how the Pakistani public can be persauded that counter-terrorism is a national issue, not done for the USA alone. Pakistan's foriegn minister when in Birmingham (UK) last Friday was very animated on making this point to a Pakistani audience, unlike when speaking the day before at IISS, London when other topics dominated.

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