An interesting article from Pakistani physics professor Pervez Hoodbhoy.
I'm not sure I agree with Hoodbhoy's entire analysis, but then he lives in Pakistan, and I don't. The tragedy of Pakistan is that its government does not speak for the country - that for so long, it has remained beholden to the Americans, and that the custodian of that control has been the Pakistani Army.
Because of this, the people are just as likely to side against their government as they are to side with it, and every random maulana becomes the standard-bearer of Islam and anti-imperialism. This, in turn, becomes a license to kill and maim indiscriminately.
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