by Mohammad Ali Babakhel in Dawn, February 20th, 2023The writer is author of Pakistan: In Between Extremism and Peace.PAKISTAN has long faced extremism, insurgency and terrorism. After 9/11, a number of legal, administrative and policy interventions were made, but despite the expanded counterterrorism (CT) apparatus, the goals have yet to be met. In practice, terrorism has interprovincial, interstate and international linkages, and so cannot be prevented or countered by provinces alone. During the last two…