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The United States’ involvement of Pakistan in the Afghan war has proved destabilising for Pakistan, due to the demographic composition of its population as well as its army. As this war goes on, it continues to threaten the regime and to remove its legitimacy. The only solution now could be that Pakistan withdraws from the Afghan conflict, on the basis of an agreement among the Afghan parties thus hinting at the end of NATO involvement.Prem Shankar Jha, former advisor to the Prime Minister V.P. Singh and news editor of the Hindustan Times, is a journalist. Among his last publications : The Twilight of the Nation State: Globalisation, Chaos and War (London, Pluto Press, 2006).