There is the ttp and thats what i prefer to call them, and i would love it if everyone made that choice. We dont want that stain on our identity. There are 200 million of us. You say some pakistanis have supported the ttp in the past. I dont know if there has been explicit support. I think there has been confusion in our society and across the muslim world. Since 9 11 we still have not created a coherent narrative about the rejection within our faith of this kind of player, and pakistan is one representative of a larger problem that plagues the entire muslim world. So were not where we need to be, and i think these kinds of attacks make the lines much more clear, and i think the vast majority of pakistanis are sickened, and would like this to end. Do you think that the group is getting more powerful . Or is it just getting more horribly daring . You mentioned the attacks last year. They also launched a major attack in karachi in june. I think theyre getting more and more desperate. I t