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"The footprints seem to be Taliban and al-Qaida, " said Talat Masood, a retired general turned security analyst.

"Baitullah Mehsud is now taking on the Americans, " said Talat Masood, a retired Pakistani general turned analyst.

But his efforts were not enough to overcome voters' disappointment with Mr Talat's failure to secure a deal.

Mr Talat is widely dismissed as an incidental figure, with mainland generals seen as the real powers in the north.

He has ousted Mehmet Ali Talat, the most pro-settlement leader the Turkish-Cypriots have had.

"The deal is a disaster, " Talat Masood, a retired lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army Corps, wrote on ForeignPolicy. com.

After the Ottoman collapse, Talat Pasha fled to Berlin and was subsequently murdered there, in 1921.

"Events in Lahore have made the government's position extremely untenable, " said Lieutenant General (retired) Talat Masood, a commentator.

Ozdil Nami the aide to Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat was also upbeat.

For retired General Talat Masood, the military, the intelligence services and the government are responding to the situation poorly.

Russian and Armenian forces set up an Armenian mini-state in 1915, and thus Talat Pasha sought to punish them.

In contrast, Mr Talat and Mr Christofias were not just pro-settlement but also old trade-union friends and fluent in English.