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Pakistan's Strategic Calculus and al-Qaeda     Email    Printer-Friendly
Michael Wahid Hanna, The Century Foundation, 4/14/2010
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Pakistan in the fall, she caused something of a stir when she touched upon the issue of al-Qaeda, telling a public gathering that she found "it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to." And yet, months after this bracing upbraiding, this issue is not discussed by commentators with any particular intensity. At the same time, these commentators are transfixed by the current debate about Pakistan’s intentions with respect to the Taliban following the recent highly-publicized arrests of several leading Taliban figures in Pakistan. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.


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