Pakistan and the GWOT

""Pakistan has not been so victimized by destructive U.S. power games since the U.S.-backed Afghan jihad of the 1980's. U.S. meddling back then shored up the rule of Ziaul Haq, the most brutally repressive ruler Pakistan has had. It left parts of the country awash in guns and drugs. It saw for the first time the establishment of Islamic extremism in what had been a mostly secularist country. And many died in the backwash of the violence in Afghanistan." Analysis by Rahul Mahajan."