Najam Sethi, the founding editor of The Friday Times and a former caretaker chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab Province, answers questions about last week’s terror attack in Pahalgam and the India-Pakistan clash it has provoked. How do Pakistanis view the slaughter in Pahalgam? Do they accept it’s the work of Pakistani terrorist organisations? How do they respond to the steps India has taken? How do they view their own government’s retaliation? And if it comes to military action how do they regard that prospect?

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