"In Afghanistan, the future of the Atlantic alliance is at stake. In Pakistan, the state itself is at stake"

Arnaud de Borchgrave, in the Wash-Times, here
"....Pakistan is fighting an existential threat comparable to 1971 when Pakistanis lost half their country in a war with India. East Pakistan, separated by 1,000 miles of Indian territory, became Bangladesh. This traumatic shock to the body politic also sparked Pakistan's drive for nuclear power. ...Now Pakistan is fighting a large-scale insurgency against a wing of Taliban that has spilled out of FATA into the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), and beyond with attacks on the army's principal ordnance plant and other army installations. ..."