It is not hidden from anyone that in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas Al Qaeda and the Taliban are joined at the hip. Al Qaeda tried to get into Somalia and was prevented by the US and Somalia’s neighbours. Then it tried to get a base in Iraq but there the Shia militias are too strong for it to establish itself. Pakistan is the most secure place for it to hide, with a population of 160 million already starry-eyed with admiration. With NATO gone from Afghanistan, Al Qaeda may even get to Islamabad with added force and put up a government there as sympathetic to it as the one in the NWFP.
After that, it will have nuclear weapons too. And that scenario should not be acceptable to any reasonable and patriotic Pakistani.
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