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Islamabad, Feb 4 (IANS) Pakistan’s illicit gun culture is not accidental but a product of instability and the outcome of decades of conflict, permissive governance, and a deeply embedded social relationship with weapons, a report has stated. “The country’s modern landscape of arms trafficking and illegal gun ownership sits at the intersection of geopolitics, criminal enterprise, and cultural tradition, an ecosystem where state fragility and societal norms reinforce one another, allowing the tr…