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Monday’s attack on a police training school in Lahore is the clearest reminder yet that Pakistan is slowly but surely losing the battle against extremist elements on its soil. Suicide bombings and gun battles are occurring with frightening regularity and neither the government nor the military seems to have a cohesive strategy to tackle the menace.

Pakistan’s obsession with gaining a strategic depth in Afghanistan and its policy of bleeding India with a thousand cuts have led to its losing control over the hydra-headed monster it created. It is still not too late for Pakistan to confront the rogue elements on its soil. Civil society will have to convince the army to change tack and abandon the policies of the past.

Navin Muralidharan,

Chennai

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Pakistan is a fertile ground for breeding terror elements, including the Taliban. It is surprising that the Pakistani authorities did not sanitise the areas around its most cosmopolitan city even after last month’s daring attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team. It shows the extent to which the jihadi elements have increased their influence. That the Taliban has arrived as close as 10 km from Pakistan’s Wagah border with India is a matter of grave concern.