US/PAKISTAN: Taliban advance offers policy opportunity

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  • Long-term militant problem
  • State-backed militancy
  • Secret support
  • Restoring traditional rule
  • Local receptiveness
  • Pakistani and international disquiet
  • Qazis in question
  • US policy options
  • Empowering the police
  • Courting communities
  • Comity with Islamabad

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