A Special Number on "Pakistan:The Osama Nightmare"

When Osama bin-Laden was killed, this writer immediately scribbled down his impressions in these columns(3 May 2011). Later the Outlook, a weekly magazine from India, published a special number on his death dated 16 May. Most of the articles there are, surprisingly, from Pakistan. Let us look at some of them which are of greater interest.
A Pakistan intellectual says that 'We must repudiate the current policy of verbally condemning jehadism-and actually fighting it in some places-but secretly supporting it in other places...Pakistan will remain in interminable conflict both with itself and the world'(p.41). This is a common sense understanding in tune with what is felt all around.
Rather contrary to the commonly held idea, Pakistan gave the information of that house to the US, and even discussed among themselves the possible consequences of an US action. Skipping why the Pakistanis did not act themselves, this was because 'say sources, Islamabad wanted Obama to be provided sufficient reason and justification to pull back American forces from Afghanistan'(p.48). So Pakistan is planning to set up a second Taliban government under its supervision there?
But the whole wide Arab world was not impressed by the death. '...the people seemed more keen on their campaign for democracy...'(p.54). Moreover, to our great and pleasant surprise, 'Imams have been turning the youth to the precepts of Islam that preach non-violence, objecting to the idea of terrorism. The politics on the ground in much of the Muslim world is moving towards opposition, not just of regimes but opposition to terrorism too...this is becoming an era of non-violent protest...The youth in Egypt did in 18 days what Al Qaeda couldn't do in 18 years'(p.57). One would hope that 'the Muslim world' would come to embrace Pakistan as well.
And we are told that even in Afghanistan 'Many of them(Taliban commanders) are not convinced of the wisdom of carrying on an armed struggle in Afghanistan and would like to see a political solution'(p.57). Wonderful. So the problem seems to go back to the above-quoted two-faced policy of Pakistan. But actually it goes beyond that to India-Pakistan, and further, India-Pakistan-China relations.