The Country at Stake With Reckless Leadership

By Farooq Hassan
Law & Int’l Affairs Professor — Harvard

I have been in Cairo where I had arrived to talk to the Arab intellectuals of strategic and Islamic affairs. Regrettably then on May 27, the third major terrorist attack in Lahore occurred.

Recent hostilities in the country concerning the war events in Swat have already initiated a debate in many influential media quarters if Pakistan could survive this newly created reality, in which serious questions about the policies and decisions of the Zardari government were involved.
There has been a debate evoked around the survival of the country, which is of tremendous significance for the entire Muslim world as was evidenced by my live dialogue for IslamOnline.net that very day of Lahore bombing attack.

Such an inquiry, not merely semantically, but in terms of fundamental realities of contemporary transnational political facts, entails two connected but separate and clearly distinct matters.

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