The loss of life and limb in Pakistan’s west, especially Kohat, underlines that caution from Hillary Clinton for probably the hundredth time: snakes you rear in your backyard won’t just bite your neighbours. That Pakistani establishment doesn’t learn is a tragedy for that country and violent nuisance for its neighbours.
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