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Recently, the Guardian carried a story on the alleged ISI links with the Taliban based on the Wikileaks bombshell. Written by Declan Walsh, the report bore the headline: ‘Whose side is Pakistan on?’

I doubt if the reporter — a friend and a very well-informed journalist — wrote the headline because the answer to the question is self-evident: Pakistan is on its own side, as is every country in the world.