It is not that there are Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan and FATA. There are. The point is that the roots of islamist militancy come from deep within Pakistan;the use of religious sanctioned violence is integral to its history and ideology.Its heartland in Punjab province is home to violent militant groups nurtured for decades by the military to impose its will domestically and to fight India.But this problem in the heartland is all the more easily ignored if attention is focused on what the Raj called its Northwest Frontier -on the wild tribal pashtun of the colonial imagination.The enemy becomes external.
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