"The Other Face Of Pakistan" by Eve Ensler

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"These women understand that the major threat to Pakistan is not terrorism but poverty, malnutrition, (60 percent of the children are now born moderately stunted) lack of education, HIV, violence against women, and corruption of the government. Women who know that the U.S. war in Afghanistan escalates violence in Pakistan, that computer driven drones killing hundreds of innocent people enrages those who lose their loved ones and that creates more terrorists. They know their lives are being manipulated, that the millions of dollars the U.S. sends never reaches them or the people (but goes to the corrupt leaders and elites). That the future of their country is essentially in their hands, as the government, the army, the security forces are not focused on the struggles that occupy their daily existence."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eve-ensler/the-other-face-of-pakista_b_374681.html

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[Hydra]

2. In war, it often seems women pay the highest price n/t

[niyad]

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