The leader of a House subcommittee on terrorism and nonproliferation said that the rise of extremism in Pakistan isn't getting due attention in Pakistan.
In an interview with The Hill, Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) referenced the recent assassination of Punjabi governor Salman Taseer, a liberal politician shot by his own guard in Islamabad. Afterward, 500 Pakistani religious scholars warned that anyone who mourned the governor, who opposed capital punishment blasphemy laws, would suffer the same fate.
Royce said that Pakistani lawmakers he's met on his three trips there over the past three years have gone underground.
"I don't that that many people either in Congress or the administration ...seem to have come to grips with the fact that Pakistan is failing," Royce said.
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In an interview with The Hill, Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) referenced the recent assassination of Punjabi governor Salman Taseer, a liberal politician shot by his own guard in Islamabad. Afterward, 500 Pakistani religious scholars warned that anyone who mourned the governor, who opposed capital punishment blasphemy laws, would suffer the same fate.
Royce said that Pakistani lawmakers he's met on his three trips there over the past three years have gone underground.
"I don't that that many people either in Congress or the administration ...seem to have come to grips with the fact that Pakistan is failing," Royce said.
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