摘要:When a main player exits the centre stage of history to ascend to Valhala it invariably results in a variety of theories, views, analyses, speculations and predictions, and so it was post bin Laden’s demise. Will the event give a fillip to terrorists or demoralise them, even if temporarily? Will it hasten peace and stability in the Af-Pak Region? Has a major battle been won in the “War of Civilizations”? Or in Churchillian phraseology is it the ‘end of the beginning’ or perhaps even ‘the beginning of the end’? These are the aspects that will be pondered over in the days ahead.