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Ali Eteraz

Ali Eteraz is a writer and activist. He has worked in international finance and human rights law. During law school he worked on litigation against US contractors involved in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal and then represented plaintiffs defrauded by Wall Street.

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The only way to explain why the US and its allies do not abandon a leader who is less popular with his people than the terrorist whom he is being paid billions to hunt is that the people of Pakistan are considered irrelevant in discussions about Pakistan. At about every 20-year interval, the west...
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