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Yesterday insurgents of the Taliban took control of a small region about sixty miles from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. The United States sees this advance as a flex in power and a potential threat to the nuclear arms that exist within Pakistan. The Pakistani military is the second most powerful in the world, but due to tough economic situations within the nation, the Taliban believes this is the time to take over the government and change it to an extremist state.

The Pakistani government has yet to comment on what type of stance they are going to take on the advancing militants. Surely they have the ability to defend the capital city, but why have they not thwarted the attack already?

The Taliban has made its training and its home in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan since day 1. Perhaps for this reason it is in the best interest of the Pakistani military to allow the Taliban to advance onto a more preferred battlefield closer to the city? Either way I am closely following this breaking story to see how successful the Pakistani military is in defending its nation’s capital.