No cause for alarm over Pak situation, Rice

WASHINGTON: - While Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other U.S. officials have been saying that there is no cause for alarm over the situation in Pakistan, a major American newspaper Sunday carried an article by an Indian writer who claimed the country faced an "existential crisis"

Sumit Ganguly, a known Pakistan-hater, wrote in The Washington Post, "Today's ongoing crisis -- marked by a rash of suicide bombings, the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto last December, inflation as high as 25 percent and a resurgent Taliban movement -- could spell doom for the Pakistani state itself."