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Pakistan should learn from Indonesia's counterterrorism strategy

Islamabad's overly militaristic approach is not working, and attacks are rising

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Army soldiers stand amid the rubble, a day after explosions in the counter-terrorism office building in a town in Swat, Pakistan, in April 2023.    © Reuters

Salman Rafi Sheikh is assistant professor of politics at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Pakistan's overly militaristic anti-terror strategy is not working. The nation needs a smarter approach to tackling militancy, akin to the one taken by Indonesia.

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