Besides, your explanation that the book is the tantrum of child trying to get his father’s attention is plainly ridiculous. Because Salman Taseer might be a big deal in the little world of Pakistan, but he certainly isn’t elsewhere. And in the dozen or so countries where Stranger to History is published, it is read not for the personal, but for how Taseer uses the personal to explain people like you, Annie.

As a Pakistani with deep-rooted connections to India and Hindus (since the extract separates the two), I was unconvinced by the ill-researched, foot-stomping tantrum of a child wishing to attract his father’s attention.

The lieutenant, who had been sitting quietly on the edge of the veranda, now whispered slyly to me that he was a Rajput. This was another reference to the Hindu caste system, in this case a high caste. But the lieutenant didn’t know he spoke of caste. When I said to him that Islam, with its strong ideas of equality, forbade notions of caste, he became defensive and said that this was a matter of good and bad families.

“If you can have Rajputs, then you can have choodas,” I said, using the derogatory word for “low caste.”

“Of course you can have choodas,” the lieutenant replied.

“Would you let your daughter marry one?”

“Never.”

On the one hand, there was the rejection of India that made Pakistan possible, and on the other, India was overwhelmingly at play in the deepest affiliations of Pakistanis, sometimes without their knowing it. It made Pakistan a place in which everything just existed because it did, eroded haphazardly by inevitable change. The country’s roots, like some fearsome plumbing network, could never be examined to explain why something was the way it was, why the lieutenant, perhaps centuries after conversion, still thought of himself as a Rajput. And though I, with deep connections on both sides, could see the commonalities, they were not to be celebrated: we spoke instead of difference.

Id like to look at it at the beginning of the end for them,the attacks grow in number and they do whatever they can as they are being hunted and killed but then id be dreaming.

But none the less i think like many do that this is just them trying to put the army off but if the army continues to go after them we should be able to get rid of them.

What the Govt is doing? giving interviews and getting on the case of the cricket team