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Wed 08 Aug 2008Pakistan's fear of big neighbour a peace risk
Al-Qaeda - having made Afghanistan almost ungovernable - is poised to also destabilise Pakistan, writes Richard Whelan
THE AGREEMENT of Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to investigate Indian allegations that his spy service was behind last month's suicide bombing of India's embassy in Kabul - made at this weekend's South Asian summit in Sri Lanka - underlines how fraught relations between the two neighbouring nuclear powers have become.
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