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Secret Orders to Allow US Raids Into Any Country
We are posting this for a few reasons. First, because every news outlet in Pakistan is reporting the story of a “Secret US Order” that allowed military raids into Pakistan. Second, former President Musharraf’s stand that neither he, nor anyone in his government, approved these raids. Third, the current government’s regular complaints to the US [...]
Pakistan Declared a War Zone – Asif Haroon Raja
In the 9/11 terrorist attacks on twin towers in New York in which about 3000 persons died, no Afghan or Pakistani was involved. All the 19 perpetrators of the crime were Arabs, mostly hailing from Saudi Arabia. Yet the wrath of USA fell on Afghanistan for a bizarre reason that the so-called master mind behind [...]
World Economic Crisis Pushes Pakistan Close to Collapse – LA Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Take a restive, nuclear-armed nation with an untested new government, an escalating Islamic insurgency, long-standing tensions with its neighbors and an economy in free fall for months. Then add in a global financial crisis. Some analysts and diplomats fear that Pakistan could come to exemplify a perilous new phenomenon: a strategic but [...]
Set Pakistan Free
Pakistan’s main problem is not that it has many Muslim extremists or a weak economy. Rather, it is Pakistan’s dependence on the West and especially the U.S. that prevents it from fulfilling its potential. As a developing country, Pakistan’s main concern should be to modernize. The cause for Pakistan’s lack of progress is the backwards [...]
How will next U.S. administration engage Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Guest blogger Roy Kamphausen is the director and vice president for political and security affairs of the Washington Office of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). An issue that came up often in Monday’s NBR-sponsored debate on U.S.-Asian relations in the next administration was the question of instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Both campaigns [...]
Pakistan: A Country on Fire – Ayesha Siddiqa
The bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on 20 September 2008 has hit Pakistan hard. The reputation of the hotel as a meeting-point and social hub for the capital’s political and diplomatic class ensured that the attack – which killed fifty-three people and wounded 250 – would receive the maximum worldwide publicity that the [...]
Pakistan is Turning to No. 10 – Guardian UK
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark are the authors of Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy. After claiming to have spent nine years nurturing democracy in Pakistan and festooning the country’s military dictatorship with $11bn in aid, the Bush administration’s policy is careering out of control, as US soldiers trade bullets with [...]
The New President and The Future of Democracy – Ayesha Ijaz Khan
In November last year, as I tried to rally support for our pro-judiciary demonstration outside the Pakistani High Commission in London, one of my friends, who runs a threading salon and is least interested in politics, cynically asked me, “What are you trying to do? Make Asif Zardari president?” She asked the question in ignorance [...]