Article Archive for June 2010
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KABUL, June 29: An American serviceman who was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan one year ago has berated Washingtons political and military establishment for plunging his country into a war which “isn’t worth the …
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Pakistan should give up its “farce” of a dialogue with India that is ensnared with “doubts and confusion” and instead focus its energies on supporting the “Kashmiri jihad” and getting the UN to intervene, an …
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Pakistan is poised to clamp down on the country’s independent media industry.
The government has introduced a bill in parliament which, if passed, would usher in harsher regulations for broadcasters and online organisations.
It seeks to amend …
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KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai has held face-to-face talks with Sirajuddin Haqqani, leader of a particularly brutal militant group with ties to al-Qaida, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.
The presidential office reportedly denied that any …
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As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no control, they risk repeating the blood-soaked 19th-century history of Britain’s imperial defeat.
“Last month, some American officers called us …
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ISLAMABAD (Online) – The biggest scam of customs has been reported in country’s history, which relates to the provision of equipment to Isaf (International Security Assistance Force) as containers worth over Rs 220 billion with …
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Pakistan Navy, in a bid to ensure the security situation in the region, announced to conduct War Game Exercise Shamsheer-i-Behr IV in the next month keeping in view India’s new concept of war, report said …
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By M K Bhadrakumar
Often derided as a ‘failing state,’ Pakistan presses ahead with a foreign policy agenda that meets the country’s national priorities.
The Pakistani diplomacy has been presenting some stunning success stories. It is coolly …
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Dubai/islamabad—Over 50 foreign nationals, including various agents of notorious Blackwater security agency, now operating as XE, who earlier had been denied visas by Pakistani missions in their respective countries, have managed to get visas from …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey has closed its airspace to Israeli military flights following a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship, the Turkish prime minister and officials said Monday.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Toronto …
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ISLAMABAD, June 27: Secretary General of the PML Mushahid Hussain Sayed Sunday said traditional politicians were fast becoming “irrelevant”, they had no future in Pakistan as people at large wanted a new vibrant leadership which …
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Pakistani intelligence agencies have alleged that the Afghan intelligence agency, Al-Qaeda and the Research Analysis Wing (RAW) are working together to carry out terror attacks in the country.
A report by a private television channel said …
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ISLAMABAD: American officials have told Pakistan that there is mistrust between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
“John Tierney (the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee of the US …
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Source : Thaindian News
The US Embassy in Islamabad is having a tough time countering the continuous anti-American campaign being carried out by the Pakistani media.
Embassy officials have been engaged in a herculean task of countering …
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has ruled out barring Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed from giving public speeches targeting India.
“In a democracy, there is freedom of expression in Pakistan as in India. There are all sorts of …
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Following the replacement of Afghan war commander General Stanley McChrystal, US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke is likely to be the next target, a report says.
The prospects of Holbrooke’s ouster were …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is exploiting the troubled United States military effort in Afghanistan to drive home a political settlement with Afghanistan that would give Pakistan important influence there but is likely to undermine United …
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PKKH Editorial
The growing rift between the American regime and military became evident with the upset of General McChrystal but more importantly, it reminded us of something bigger: the American war strategy in Afghanistan has largely …
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On a visit to Pakistan in April, two comments stayed in my mind, encapsulating the Pakistani view of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. One was from a political analyst in Islamabad, which stood out …
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General Stanley McChrystal looked as glum when he left the White House as when he arrived. The architect of America’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan went into the meeting with Barack Obama prepared to tell the …
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ISLAMABAD: Madrassas in Pakistan are not stoking militancy, a report by a leading US think-tank concluded on Thursday.
The Brookings Institution report says that while religious schools are often cited as a cause of extremism, they …
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By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
General Stanley McChrystal, top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned home for a “briefing,” read “waterboarding session” after news of an upcoming article in this week’s Rolling Stone magazine …
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Tabish Qayyum | Fortress Magazine
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“There is a reason that President Obama studiously avoids using the word “victory” when he talks about Afghanistan. Winning, it would seem, is not really possible. Not even with …
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The top US military commander in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, has been dismissed by President Barack Obama after he criticised leading administration officials.
He had earlier agreed with Mr Obama that his statements in Rolling Stone …
