We cannot allow extremists to destabilize this nuclear armed state that has the world's second largest Muslim population.
To the extent that the Pakistani military has driven out the bad guys and gotten them on the run--we have a lot of people displaced.
I came away believing we have a window of opportunity to arrest deteriorating security conditions in both countries.
The possibility that Islamic radicals could destabilize and undermine the Pakistani state has become, frankly, all too real.
I believe the President's combined civil-military strategies are our best hope to turn the tide in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
this was maybe a unique opportunity--hopefully not the only opportunity--for some kind of rapprochement between Pakistan and India
I think it was Einstein who said in adversity lies opportunity.
the importance of reducing tensions between Pakistan and India
I think the key is not simply in making this a linear equation between opening up the dialogue between India and Pakistan and getting Pakist...
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the most immediate threat to Pakistan right now was internal.