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I participated in a World Have Your Say<\/strong> debate hosted by Madeline Morris on BBC World Service <\/a>with guests Zahid Hussain<\/strong>, Times of London correspondent and author of Frontline Pakistan:The Struggle with Militant Islam<\/a>, Walid Phares<\/strong> author of The Confrontation:Winning the War Against Future Jihad<\/a>\u00a0and Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Pakistan People’s Party<\/a> insider Wajid Shamsul Hassan<\/strong>. The show’s producers called \u00a0me to react to Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani’s<\/a> recent comments on a his espousing of a “bailout” of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan rather than, say, AIG or GM. I, and I think most rational internationalists, agree that Pakistan certainly does need help but that of a nuanced and self-sustaining sort rather than thoughtlessly throwing further billions at the military while the feuding feudal kleptocrats Asif Ali Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif create a political smokescreen in their constant dust ups. As an asymmetrical civil war engulfs swaths of Pakistan’s geography and attempts to silence members of its civil society, a regional rethink is required by all parties. The United States and Pakistan have quite different objectives in regard to Afghanistan and South Asia as whole (not to mention China and Russia) and a modus vivendi <\/em>by several sides\u00a0will be necessary to solve the “Af-Pak” crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As someone at a party in Karachi said to me last year,”Ten years ago we were being compared to India, and now we are being compared to Afghanistan. What the hell happened”?<\/p>\n

The BBC podcast can be downloaded here<\/a>…<\/span><\/p>\n

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