“The [Pakistani] army continues to see terrorism merely as a latent threat and India as the more clear and present danger,’ said Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ali Durrani [on September 11, 2011], the former national security adviser to Prime Minister [Yousaf Raza] Gilani. ‘We have not grappled with the issue of extremism seriously–neither the public, nor the government nor army.’ “
– Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, Page 65