‘Reconciliation’ By Benazir Bhutto (Excerpt)

The stakes could not have been high­er. Pak­istan under mil­i­tary dic­ta­tor­ship had become the epi­cen­ter of an inter­na­tion­al ter­ror­ist move­ment that had two pri­ma­ry aims. First, the extrem­ists’ aim to recon­sti­tute the con­cept of the caliphate, a polit­i­cal state encom­pass­ing the great Ummah (Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty) pop­u­la­tions of the world, unit­ing the Mid­dle East, the Per­sian […]