Pakistan’s Broken Anti-Terror System

Blaming external actors, the government’s head is in the sand over its own faults

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

For almost two decades, the Pakistan state has blamed the US ‘war on terror’ and Indian involvement in Afghanistan for terrorism in Pakistan. Yet, two years after the formal end of that war, the scale of terrorism is increasing. But even if there were an external conspiracy, Pakistan’s institutions, both civil and military are unab…