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Pakistan is close to becoming an unwelcome novelty, a failed state with somewhere between 50 and 100 nuclear bombs.(THE WEEK)(on the political and security situation in Pakistan)

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* Pakistan is close to becoming an unwelcome novelty, a failed state with somewhere between 50 and 100 nuclear bombs. Suicide bombers wreak havoc in its streets. Whole parts of the country are a law unto themselves, tribal and Islamist in character. Something like 300,000 refugees are on the move to escape a sort of uncoordinated warfare. Pervez Musharraf, the president these last nine years, did little to sort out this chaos, instead adding to it. Claiming to restore democracy, Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister, and Asif Ali Zardari, husband of the murdered Benazir Bhutto, formed a coalition government and forced Musharraf to resign. ...

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