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A Washington DC based think thank Center for a New American Security outlines that:
The United States and its allies are in the eighth year of a war in Afghanistan that has no end in sight. Making matters worse, the security situation in Pakistan—always a safe haven for the insurgents against whom the United States and its allies have fought—has also declined precipitously. Attacks by violent extremist groups have now spread east of the Indus River and into the heart of the previously calm Punjab region, yet Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders have reached a consensus on neither the nature of the threat nor the appropriate course of action to address it.