ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book analyzes in light of what the post-9/11 Pakistani fictive appropriation of shared tropes and themes emphasizes. The timing of the Raymond Davis episode, which unfolded in early months of 2011, coincided roughly with the Navy SEALs raid on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound, as well as with a NATO airstrike in November of that year that killed twenty-four Pakistani soldiers. Effectively, this string of events sensitized relations between the US and Pakistan to unprecedented degree, and uptick in drone usage. The CIA's drone attack, following so close on the heels of the resolution of the Davis affair, nearly begs to be read as vehement reassertion of sovereign power. As Declan Walsh, New York Times journalist, reports, the US State Department can neither confirm nor deny the costs, especially in terms of civilian casualties, because such information is classified.
