OK so we have made some progress, at least we are beyond the wholesale denial - we are now in the lawyerly phase and the "lawyers" now choose to say that we should place all the blame of the civilian government -- Well, truth is that since Zia, we have had military government, whether outright or in the background - playing these lawyerly games brings us even greater disrepute, I think we should be careful with this objection of using "civilian government" as a excuse -- islamist terror exists in Pakistan and is exported from Pakistan because that's the way Pakistan army want it - when they don't want it , it will disappear.
Other "lawyers" seek to cloak Islamist terrorism as a variety of "crime" - and argue that crime exists everywhere - after all, if crime exists, then all LEA are responsible because they have not defeated crime in the world -- we hope our brother allies are paying attention to this argument - because there is no stronger indication, that Pakistan will be less than effective in trying to prevent another such attempt -- After all, if "crime has not been defeated everywhere, how can Pakistan hope to defeat this crime against it and her ally??
And for our "lawyer" If islamist terror is a crime, is not the ideology of islamism, an ideology that informs the action of the terrorist, not a crime???