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The Pakistan army is taking a beating for its summer offensive in Swat and the drone attack which killed Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban. Not only is Baitullah's successor Hakimullah very much alive (the army claimed he had been killed in a shoot-out with a rival over the succession) but his organisation has shown in the last 11 days that it can orchestrate mayhem throughout the Punjab. Yesterday saw a first "“ a Mumbai-style series of co-ordinated attacks on three high-profile targets in Lahore, as well as a suicide bombing in the North-West Frontier province. At least 38 people died, but this was, by the militants'...