“the ungoverned spaces of Pakistan” still have a president. Musharaf had better start doing more.
Bomb blasts in Pakistan in wake of mosque assault
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least seven people, including three policemen, were killed in two separate blasts in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, one of them a suicide bomb attack on a senior government official.
On Thursday, a suicide bomb attack on the office of the top government official in the North Waziristan tribal region killed two people, a witness wounded in the blast said.
Actually the north west part of Pakistan has always been off limits to the Pakistan govt. The people there have allegiance only to tribal war lords and the death cult of Islam. They do not believe in the concept of a nation state or a President. They do not follow any of the laws of Pakistan and essentially run their own affairs. They are fierce suicidal fighters so Pakistan figured out a long time ago that the best way to deal with them is to let them be autonomous. They are appeased by the Pakistan govt in return for peace and it is perhaps the most difficult and inhospitable terrain in the world. It would be suicidal for American troops to go in there, the best option would be to flatten it with daisy cutters.