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Dear editor, I'm sending this article for your esteemed publication. Best regards, Gul Jammas Hussain Tehran, Iran
To defeat the Taliban, Pakistani feudalism must die By Gul Jammas Hussain After dithering for many years, it seems that the Pakistan military has finally decided to deal with the Taliban Frankenstein. The world was wondering what Pakistan was doing, until it launched a full-scale military offensive last week to halt the Pakistani Taliban, which had taken control of districts only 100 kilometers from the capital. Pakistanis were glued to their TVs, shocked to see troops of the group known as the neo-Taliban advance unhindered toward Islamabad, set on recreating the Stone Age state their namesakes had established in Afghanistan in the 1990s. Many Westerners were also horrified, especially in the United States, whose officials tried to create the impression that if the Taliban, who are mostly semiliterate villagers from underdeveloped, long-neglected areas of Pakistan, could only break the complex codes of the country's nuclear arsenal, doomsday was around the corner. The militancy Frankenstein in the region was initially coauthored in the 1980s by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and funded by U.S. dollars and Saudi riyals in order to counter the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but it did not vanish with the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. It survived on its own with a little help from Pakistan, which feels it cannot abandon its eternal quest for "strategic depth" in its western neighbor in case of an Indian attack from the east. On Saturday, Pakistani Prime Minister…
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