OBAMA: PAK MAY TURN INTO SAFE HAVEN

US President Barack Obama sounded a grim note on Pak in his state of the union address, saying it would be gripped by instability for decades and could become a safe haven for terrorist networks

This was perhaps the first such reference to Pak — usually described as an ally in the war against terror — in all of his state of the union addresses, putting it in the same category as Afghanistan and West Asia.

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