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    ‘They only know how to do things through chaos’: Carlotta Gall

    Author Carlotta Gall on Pakistan’s meddling in Afghanistan, and why the West has been fighting the wrong enemy since 9/11

    Michael Petrou
    <p>Pakistani investigators look for evidence at the spot of an explosion in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. A bomb ripped through a fruit and vegetable market on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Wednesday morning, killing scores of people and leaving dozens more wounded, officials said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)</p>

    B.K. Bangash/AP

    B.K. Bangash/AP
    Pakistani investigators look for evidence at the spot of an explosion in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. (B.K. Bangash/AP)

    New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall is the author of The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014, which argues that Pakistan, not Afghanistan has been the true enemy of the West, ever since 9/11 — arming, training and funding the Taliban, and even protecting al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, among other Islamist extremists.

    Gall spoke to Maclean’s in Ottawa, shortly before briefing officials with the Canadian government, which officially considers Pakistan “an important ally for Canada in the global fight against terrorism.”

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