TRANSPARENT DECEPTION
Feb 21, 2020
3 minutes
Illustrations by TANMOY CHAKRABORTY
Pakistan has refined the stratagem of the minimal satisfier to an art form. For decades, whenever it has been brought under extraordinary external pressure, it has quickly sought to project formal compliance on counter-terrorism parameters to escape imminent punitive measures, but ensured that its basic capacities to project terrorism into its neighbourhood and beyond remain intact.
This has continued for decades, despite the fact that Pakistan has been acknowledged, even by the most reluctant
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