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Pakistan may end up in the wrong hands to be channeled into strengthening the militant infrastructure . The SCO regional anti-terrorist center planned to hold an anti-terrorist exercise in mountainous regions of Central Asia in October involving troops from Uzbekistan , Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan , he said . The realists ' stronger position , of course , is due above all to the fact that , with 150,000 US troops still bogged down in Iraq at the cost of US $ 6 billion a month , the " coalition of the willing " getting smaller virtually every month and public support for the war in a state of collapse , those who argue for expanding the conflict have a hard row to hoe . " Pakistan started soon after Musharraf took over the government after a bloodless military coup on October 12 , 1999 . Moscow and Beijing ventured to stage an unprecedented anti-American military demonstration , actually amounting to intimidation of other nations in the region , the daily commented .