He was once a violent cleric. Now, at the age of 77, he talks peace, grabbing headlines worldwide for the Swat deal he stitched with the NWFP government.
It's a nation waiting for devastation, for sleek planes to rain down lethal bombs, for deadly missiles to penetrate its impregnable mountains, for its ruins to turn into rubble, for its defiance to be punished, tamed.
