Scary portrait of a nuclear power on the brink.
"'There used to be a hope that there was a silent, liberal majority,' says Hoodbhoy [Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Pakistani nuclear scientist and peace activist], a professor at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. 'Now we know that there’s still a silent liberal group, but it’s no majority.' ...
"Hoodbhoy ... spent the past year working with students to secretly record and transcribe sermons at hard-line mosques across Pakistan.
"'Despair and grief are really the capital that these militant groups trade in, and there is a lot of it in Pakistan right now,' says Hoodbhoy."
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