Much has been made of Pakistan as a potential failed state on the verge of breakup, yet if there is even a remote chance of that happening it will not be because of the Taliban, but because of an underlying crisis that has been studiously ignored by the West-the separatist movement in Balochistan. The issue is well described in the best chapter of a new book on Pakistan by
Nicholas Schmidle,
To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan.
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