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President Pervez Musharraf’s claim that former United States Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage threatened to “bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age” is sadly ironic: Musharraf is already doing it. This year, Musharraf diligently assisted the US in the so-called ‘war on Islamic fascism’ by deploying 80,000 troops and executing bombing raids in the Waziristan agency. Long thought to provide easy passage for Taliban militants through its porous 2,200-km border with Afghanistan, Waziristan is now a war zone. Unable to distinguish locals from militants, Musharraf’s raids have resulted in destroyed crops, pervasive homelessness, rampant looting, contaminated wells, shuttered schools, dead cattle and infrastructure reduced to rubble.
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