To fight or not to fight
Nawaz Sharif still wants to give peace a chance while bombing Taliban strongholds
PAKISTAN’S prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has long been caught between hawks demanding a decisive military confrontation with the Pakistani Taliban and doves adamant the militants can be talked into abandoning their bloody campaign against the government. Four weeks after Mr Sharif announced that he wanted to give peace talks another chance, he appears to have settled for a little of each.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “To fight or not to fight”
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