Tag Archives: Pakistan
India: Encircling Pakistan!
Posted on19. Nov, 2012 by Asif H Raja.
India’s ambitions to encircle Pakistan By Brig Asif Haroon Raja India is largest in size and population and militarily and economically the strongest country in South Asia. Indian Army of 1.4 million with 34 combat divisions is the third largest in the world and Indian air force and navy too are formidable. India has [...]
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Afghanistan: Fluctuating Situations
Posted on19. Jul, 2012 by Asif H Raja.
Overview of fluctuating situation in Afghanistan By Brig Asif Haroon Raja Haqqani Network (HN) under Sirajuddin Haqqani based in North Waziristan (NW) was declared the most dangerous outfit when it hit military targets in Kabul several times with impunity on September 13, 2011. Murder of Burhanuddin Rabbani on September 20, 2011 blocked the peace [...]
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NATO Supplies Fuel For Terrorism?
Posted on16. Jul, 2012 by Asif H Raja.
Opening of supply lines will intensify terrorism in Pakistan By Brig Asif Haroon Raja Once the might of US military-NATO got bogged down in the swamp of Afghanistan, rather than making corrections at its end, Pentagon and CIA made Pakistan a scapegoat and blamed it for all their faults. Finding no explanation to offer [...]
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AFGHANISTAN: BEYOND TOKYO CONFERENCE
Posted on16. Jul, 2012 by Raja Mujtaba.
By Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal During the Obama years, at least two persons out of his Afghanistan team accurately and correctly perceived the nature, gravity and complexity of the Afghanistan conflict and were eager to find a respectable way to get America out of the fiasco. These were Richard Holbrooke and General Stanley Mc [...]
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Afghan prospects not necessarily gloomy
Posted on15. Jul, 2012 by Editor.
By Bhadrakumar The two interviews that the United States ambassador to Kabul Ryan Crocker gave last week as he completes his tour by end-July — with Wall Street Journal and Associated Press – are bound to give a rosy picture of the Afghan situation and the prospects ahead. He is actually reflecting on his own tenure, which he would [...]
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Jimmy Carter: The US has lost moral leadership
Posted on27. Jun, 2012 by Editor.
Jimmy Carter slams U.S. policy on drones, targeted assassinations By James Meikle, The Guardian June 25, 2012 Jimmy Carter Former US president Jimmy Carter has declared that drone strikes and targeted assassinations abroad have seen the country violating human rights in a way that “abets our enemies and alienates our friends”. In a stinging [...]
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Sir Creek issue: Way out
Posted on27. Jun, 2012 by S M Hali.
By S. M. Hali Of all the bilateral disputes between Pakistan and India, Sir Creek has the simplest solution and can be resolved as a Confidence Building Measure (CBM), paving the way to settle the more complex ones. The issue like many others is a legacy of the undemarcated tracts at the partition of the [...]
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Roll 300 Heads Save Pakistan-Part 2
Posted on15. Jun, 2012 by Raja Mujtaba.
The Black Robin Hood “The nations are born in the hearts of the poets; they prosper and die in the hands of the politicians.” Dr. Allama Iqbal By Raja G Mujtaba The way things are unfolding and developing, none would be left to decide, judge, punish or be punished. The whole pond has become very [...]
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Whirling Dervish and TAPI Politics
Posted on23. May, 2012 by Peter Chamberlin.
Is the Whirling Dervish of TAPI Politics Finally Spinning America’s Way? By Peter Chamberlin It had to eventually happen–Afghan politics have come full circle, and then some. It was only a matter of time before the TAPI pipe dream would once again be offered as a solution to the Afghan conflict. The Taliban are once [...]
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Kabul Attacks and Pakistan-US Re-engagement
Posted on28. Apr, 2012 by Raja Mujtaba.
By Raja G Mujtaba On the subject, S M Hali conducted his weekly Talk, Defence and Diplomacy on PTV. In this talk, besides the author, Prof Salma Malik was also on the panel. The video clipping of the same is embedded at the end of the article. Today lies and fallacies of 911 stand exposed [...]
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