re: #48 Gus 802

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Despite possessing a military ranking in the world’s top seven, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is currently challenged by an ideologically driven Taliban, which has laid claim to much of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Baluchistan—two of the country’s four provinces—and to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), located northeast of Baluchistan on the border with Afghanistan.

For others, the Islamic republic’s life is in danger and time is running out.

However, the Taliban have a significant advantage in the region because of their ethnicity and Islamic religious beliefs.

In the 1970s, General Zia-ul-Haq introduced Islamic Sharia law, encouraged the development of madrassa schools with religious teachings, and Islamicized the Pakistan army and the Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI), the intelligence apparatus.

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