Pakistanis could be forgiven for thinking they are jinxed while their country endures one tragedy after another. Just days after an air crash killed 152 in Islamabad in the worst accident in Pakistan’s aviation history, severe flooding inundated large swaths of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, formerly the North West Frontier Province. The flooding, beyond human and material damage, has undone months of intense counterinsurgency efforts and allowed militant Islamist groups to burnish their image as the providers of humanitarian aid.
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