The country's economy is threatened with bankruptcy, even as its internal security is haunted by growing militancy.Without foreign help, Pakistan won't be able to afford its imports, repay its debts, or quell the insurgents encamped within its borders.
Fakhruddin Ahmed, head of the interim government installed by the army, has promised a "beautiful Bangladesh" without militancy, intolerance or Islamic extremism.
Berating politics and politicians and manufacturing dissent through fanatical street mobs and palatial intrigue that General Hamid Gul presided over then has carried over, with the net effect being political instability and uncertainty in which Islamist militancy has thrived without pause.
Over the last four years, the United States has spent between $520 million and $600 million in a sweeping effort to combat Islamist militancy in the region without fighting the kind of wars it has waged in the Middle East.
"You have to convince people there are other ways to help to alleviate the suffering of others without resorting to violence and militancy and at the same time trying to educate people about the causes of these conflicts".
America is mistaken, he said, if it thinks a military response to terrorism suffices without attacking social and economic ills that fuel militancy.
Although Mr. Miliband ruled out discussions with those committed to Al Qaeda's brand of militancy, he strongly endorsed an effort to reach out to almost everyone else, and without any preconditions.
Their perspectives must be acknowledged as the more powerful "new militancy" in Kashmir today - dealing as they do in words not guns, resisting without violence.
Worker militancy is spasmodic.
None arose from Islamist militancy.
