IT is quite refreshing to hear Prime Minister Gilani maintain the tempo of a principled stand that the government has taken of late to show its annoyance at certain American policies and utterances and assert that Pakistan would not accept any conditional aid that tended to...
When there are ominous signals from government functionaries, think tanks and army generals of our so-called allies that Pakistan could collapse within six months then it is the time that our political leaders forget about their power-sharing equation and focus on meeting the...
WASHINGTON — Even as the Obama administration launches new drone attacks into Pakistan's remote tribal areas, concerns are growing among U.S. intelligence and military officials that the strikes are bolstering the Islamic insurgency by prompting Islamist radicals to...
Is there any doubt about that? The army, for all practical purposes, has been and remains in charge. It has steadily increased its power since the first military coup in 1958. The military has a veto over most critical decisions affecting both foreign and security policies,...
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WASHINGTON: When they ask Pakistan to sever its alleged ties with the Taliban, US officials focus on three militant leaders, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Commander Jalaluddin Haqqani and Commander Nazir.
US President Barack Obama’s new strategy is causing serious differences between the United States and Pakistan over how to fight the militants hiding in the Pak-Afghan region.
We will need to remind ourselves often in the next few years that the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan is not the Obama administration’s fault. It inherited from George W. Bush a crisis so deep and so horribly complex that dealing with it would tax the powers of St...
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The United States has a vital national security interest in addressing the current and potential security threats posed by extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Pakistan, al Qaeda and other groups of jihadist terrorists are planning new terror attacks. Their targets...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-For the first time in a long time, the Pakistani government managed to turn heads in Washington by saying all things America doesn’t want to hear: Islamabad will not allow the United States to expand its war inside Pakistan, won’t allow U.S. boots on...
The serial bomb blasts in the major urban centers of Assam were a bloody reminder of the insurgencies that are raging in India’s north-eastern parts. The fact these took place just ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit was a warning from the militants that the coming...
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WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- The prophets of globalization who saw a new world order ushering humanity into a new age of plenty for all are now adding a little crow -- not yet enough to qualify as humble pie -- to their editorial menus. It is now obvious the invasion of Iraq...
By Bhupinder Twenty five years ago, for the first time since Indian independence, a political party came to power at the center by whipping up a mass communal hysteria. That party was the Congress and its leader was Rajiv Gandhi, who commented that the “earth shakes when a...
Afghanistan - Putting A New Coat on a Failed Strategy by Ron Jacobs I turned on the television Friday, March 27, 2009. It was tuned to C-SPAN. Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan was being televised. Listening only to the words of his introductory comments and ignoring the...
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Image : aktaylor.com Tibet in India's Web Sunday March 29 2009 19:18:14 PM BDT By Prem Raj INTRODUCTION:India portraying itself a secular and peace loving country to the...
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