A disturbing video posted recently on YouTube, which has received more than 300,000 hits, shows a group of young Afghan or Pakistani Pashtun boys enacting a suicide bombing where one of them, whose face is covered by a black mask, bids farewell to others and then pretends to blow himself up.
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For Pakistanis, the phrasing may have been delicate but the message of the Obama Administration s Afghanistan-Pakistan review was clear: Washington is not satisfied with Pakistan s efforts against al-Qaeda militants hiding in the Tribal Areas, or its failure to deny the Afghan insurgency sanctuaries on its side of the border.
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