Reports of Pakistan's demise greatly exaggerated
It has a weak and feckless government, is beset by poverty and corruption, and militants sympathetic to al Qaeda control large swathes of its territory.
And yet despite the prophets of doom, Pakistan is not about to implode. In fact, analysts say, most risks are on the upside.
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Pakistan is not about to be taken over by the "Taliban" because the Pakistan military and political elite wont let it happen; just like they wont let true democracy happen nor change their self-defeating attitude towards India. When the "Taliban" threatens their hold on power and not just the American effort in Afghanistan, then you will see the vested interests react. Whether that is happening now or what we see now is just theatre to hoodwink the Americans into giving more military aid (tanks and fighter aircraft to oppose India) remains to be seen.