As the Taliban moved into the district of Buner in April after securing the peace agreement that humiliated the Paksitani government, Pakistani political and military leaders rushed to assure the world that there was no threat to Islamabad or Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. But Ahmed Rashid, the author over several authoritative books on the Taliban, describes what it is like to travel in Islamabad to meet the president. The city has taken on a siege mentality:
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