Salman Rafi Sheikh is assistant professor of politics at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Lahore University of Management Sciences and the author of "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977."
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Pakistan will need more than force to quash its Taliban threat
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Security officers guard a road leading to a counterterrorism center in Bannu, Pakistan that was seized by Taliban militants. © AP
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