Hardtalk: Will Pakistan Sink Into Chaos? 2008.10.21 BBC News

Hardtalk: Will Pakistan Sink Into Chaos? 2008.10.21 BBC News



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Is Pakistan about to sink into chaos? A leaked portion of the latest US National Intelligence Estimate

says it is `very bleak and that Pakistan is on the edge. Pakistan`s inflation rate recently hit a thirty year high of more than 25-percent and terrorist attacks have continued.

Intelligence agencies are deeply concerned about the situation.



Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistans High Commissioner to the UK

in Pakistan and he has been a longtime adviser to President

Zardari, and is now high commissioner to the UK.





Wajid Shamsul Hasan talks to Stephen Sackur.



HARDtalk is the hard-hitting flagship news programme shown on BBC World

News and the BBC News channel.