It has been a decade of trauma and pain for most Pakistanis ´ dominated by a gradual but unprecedented spike in violence, largely attributable to Al Qaeda and its Pakistani force-multipliers (in the words of Daniel Benjamin, the UN Counter-Terrorism coordinator). That basically means the Tehreeke Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Lashkare Jhangvi (LeJ), Lashkare Taiba (LeT), and some other shades of Taliban, mostly nestled in the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan. Most of the groups have, directly or otherwise, been part of the military establishment questionable calculus for quite some time, until some of them began biting the hand that had fed, raised and tolerated them. After the first suicide bomber killed some of those who were attending a service on March 17, 2002 in the only church in capital Islamabad Diplomatic Enclave, nearly 300 suicide bombings across the country have rattled Pakistan to the core, rendering it as one of the most dangerous places on the face of the earth. The daring twin-suicide bombing on the house of a regional army commander in Quetta, capital of southwestern Baluchistan province, on September 7th, underscored the death and destruction that Pakistanis have experienced from the north to the south; the two attacks early morning left at least 27 killed, including the spouse of Brigadier Farrukh Shehzad, the director general of the para-military Frontier Core (FC), Baluchistan and injured several others. This latest incident, for which the TTP claimed responsibility, delivered another stark reminder of the volatility that the 9/11 incidents and the US-led war against terrorism has brought upon this country of over 180 million. Ten years on, and Pakistan ´ used by the US as the bulwark against the Soviet-Russian expansionism in the 1980s ´ reels under the consequences of multiple crisis essentially rooted in the unholy alliance that the United States had cobbled together to defeat the Soviet-Russians ; political (polarization), insecurity (raked...