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Is the proposed policy sufficiently considering the--what I like to call the ``balloon effect'' of ``whatever happens in Afghanistan affects Pakistan,'' or vice versa?

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Lugar questions if policy accounts for the interlinked issues of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

05/11/2009

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