A. For six decades, power in Pakistan has teetered between military dictatorship and civilian rule.
B. Men like Baitullah Mehsud, Mangal Bagh and Maulana Faziullah are a very different bread from the mullahs who have already been co opted and corrupted by the system.
C. When the credibility of civilians was exhausted the people welcomed the army; when the generals overstayed their welcome, the citizen returned to political parties.
D. How long before the poor and the middle classes turn to the theocrats waiting to take over? The state has already handed over a province like Swat to Islamic rule.
E. Pakistan is facing a dangerous moment, when the credibility of both the military and politicians seems to have ebbed beyond recovery.
F. They have a supplementary query which resonates with the street and the village after 9/11: why is Pakistan's army fighting America's war against fellow Muslims?
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