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Pakistan's personality test

January 16, 2008

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HISTORY, geography, and domestic politics have all helped mold Pakistan into a large question mark for its neighbors, its allies, and itself. Intermittent military rule has had its role in this identity crisis, as have Pakistan's major political parties, with their feudal structures and their corruption. At least as destabilizing, though, have been the entanglements of Pakistan's powerful military intelligence ... (Full article: 417 words)

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