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Pakistan has both nuclear weapons and a Talibanist minority: not a happy combination. But in Pakistan the U.S. has had six years of good luck. After September 11, general-president Pervez Musharraf cast his lot with us and against the terrorists. The restive population demands greater liberty even as the Islamists sow mayhem in tribal areas, and on occasion in big cities (cf. the July Red Mosque bombing)--yet somehow the lid stays on. Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who recently returned to Pakistan to work out a power-sharing deal with Musharraf, narrowly survived a bomb ...

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