Mau lihat "Pakistan: Heading to civil war?" click :

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2010/2010/01/201011273052813948.html


How much of a threat is the growing influence of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in 
Pakistan, and is it pushing the country toward civil war?
The Pakistani military is fighting a major offensive against the Taliban in the 
volatile northwest.

A weak central government is helpless in the face of repeated suicide bombings 
that have killed hundreds across the country.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for many of those attacks, claiming it 
is retaliation against the army operation.

Islamabad is now battling against a group whose government it once supported in 
Afghanistan.


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The seeds of the Pakistani Taliban are believed to have been sown in 2001 when 
tens of thousands of Afghan fighters sought sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal 
areas during the US-led invasion of Afghanistan. 

Critics say Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistani president, turned a blind 
eye to the Taliban because Islamabad saw the group as a potential counter force 
against India.

On Tuesday's Riz Khan we ask: Is the Taliban pushing Pakistan into a permanent 
state of anarchy and could that destabilise the rest of South Asia?

We will talk to Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid. He has written 
several books on the influence of al-Qaeda and the Taliban in South and Central 
Asia. His latest book is Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure 
of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.

This episode of the Riz Khan show aired on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.


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