Pakistan gives US, NATO proof on India's covert links with Baitul

The US continues to be in denial as evident from the recent statement of Richard Holbrooke where he said the evidence Pakistan has produced on India's links to terrorism in Balochistan is not credible. The Pakistanis have photographs and video tapes of Indian agents in...

Pakistan wants trade agreement with US at any cost

ISLAMABAD: In a new development, Pakistan has decided to reinitiate the stalled process of technical dialogue with the US authorities to finalise the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) by December this year, The News has learnt.Read Complete Article here :...

Mysterious Gojra discord

The Gojra inferno has set off a torrent of country-wide condemnation for subjecting the Christian Pakistanis to criminal violence based on concocted case of blasphemy.Federal Minister Maulana Ataur Rehman said the desecration of Holy Qur’aan is a big crime but the murder...

DIVERGENCES

Yesterdays New York Times has a story that hints at divergences between the US and Pakistan in the war on terror in Afghanistan. Unnamed Pakistani intelligence officials are reported as having said that Pakistan had concerns that the US operational surge in Afghanistan could...

THE OBAMA DEBACLE?

Despite overheated rhetoric by its defenders, history will not prove kind to George W. Bush and his foreign policy decisions that have been or well be debacles. The Obama administration is quite right to argue repeatedly that the Bush team left behind a foreign policy mess...

THE US HAS NO BUSINESS BEING IN THE MURDER BUSINESS

The new CIA director, Leon Panetta, has just informed the US Congress he cancelled a secret operation to assassinate al-Qaida leaders. Panetta said the campaign was authorized soon after 9/11 by the Bush White House, but had not yet become operational in 2009. I respect...

Events Update

The much awaited Manmohan Singh—Yusuf Reza Gilani meeting has taken place. It has been analyzed threadbare. The conclusion is that the only thing that matters is that the meeting happened and that a Foreign Secretaries level meeting will take place on the sidelines of the...

Obama's approval rating drops below 60 pct

WASHINGTON (AFP) - For the first time since taking office, US President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped below the 60-percent threshold as Americans expressed doubts about his handling of the economy, the deficit and health care, a new opinion poll showed Monday.

The Surge

As the ‘surge’ in Afghanistan gets underway two tragic incidents are noteworthy. The US air attack in Afghanistan’s Farah province on civilians a few weeks ago and the latest drone delivered missile attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan area on a funeral procession....

Peeling the Onion: The Taliban in Pakistan

“The Taliban are no longer a single movement with a single cause, The Taliban have become a phenomena, a hydra with different heads and no centre of gravity, an organizational structure with commonalities but different goals and objectives depending on locations and...

The Enemy Within

The Pakistan Army is now the undoubted lead agency in the battle against those who challenged and continue to challenge the writ of the State. Malakand and Bajaur at the northern end of FATA are being cleared—this area had to be given priority because of the blatant...