Why Pakistan may be America’s most dangerous ally

In Their different ways, both Pakistan’s sober-suited diplomats and its turbaned, bearded terrorists have this week reminded the world that their country remains indispensable to a settlement in Afghanistan. In protest at the killing in November of 24 Pakistani soldiers by NATO and Afghan forces, the diplomats boycotted a conference in Bonn at which 90 countries gathered to discuss Afghanistan’s future. The next day, on the festival of Ashura, especially holy for Shia Muslims, some 60 died in apparently co-ordinated terrorist attacks in three Afghan cities. A Pakistan-based extremist organisation claimed responsibility.

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