police.
pakistani military and isi are
externally focused.
they're worried about the threat
of india.
there's only one element in the
pakistani national security
establishment whose matter
concern is state collapse and
extremist takeover and that's
the pakistani police and the
pakistani police have actually
done some very, very good work
in community policing,
stabilizing the environment and
counter-radicalization and most
of the good counterinsurgency
work that's happened in pakistan
has been done by the police.
and yet we've underresourced our
assistance to the police
dramatically.
we've given large amounts of
resources to the military which
have often been diverted to
platforms that address india
instead of focusing on the local
civilian administrators, judges,
the rule of law, police, all
those sorts of things that bring
about stability to the people.
so i would suggest those two
lines of operation.
the political line to do with
improving the throw-weight of