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Hamid Mir has the story in The News in Islamabad.

Although officially the government of Pakistan accepts that foreign fighters are present, their unusually large number has set alarm bells ringing in Islamabad and possibly in other capitals as well.

The report follows New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti's piece Sunday on the CIA's troubled relationship with its Pakistani counterpart, the ISI:

It is like a bad marriage in which both spouses have long stopped trusting each other, but would never think of breaking up because they have become so mutually dependent.

In Kabul over the weekend, Sen. Barack Obama called on Pakistan to act against Al Qaeda in the tribal areas.