Article Archive for October 2010
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LONDON – UK-based Tehreek-e-Kashmir has warned that Indian intelligence agencies can orchestrate a drama of terrorist attack in Held Kashmir on the eve of US President Barack Obama’s visit to India to defame Kashmiris’ just …
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WASHINGTON – So scared is President Barack Obama of Indian leadership’s strong reaction that he will not even utter the “K-word” – Kashmir – during his next week’s three-day visit to India, according to a …
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PESHAWAR – The Indian cellular network in Afghanistan has started penetrating into Pakistani tribal areas with the sale of SIM cards of Indian and Afghan cellular companies in FATA is adding to the security fears …
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Indian authorities imposed a curfew in Srinagar and other towns of Kashmir Valley on Wednesday to foil a march towards the UN Observers Office in Srinagar to remind the World Body that it had failed …
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A major enemy operation is taking place in Kandahar province which has been ongoing since the last one and a half month. Lately the enemy, through its biased media, claims to have ridded the surrounding …
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By Shireen M. Mazari
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Non-proliferation has over time become increasingly discriminatory and a vehicle for the powerful to pressurize states they consider “unreliable”, and the fact that these targeted states happen to …
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BY Ahmed Quraishi
NEW DELHI, India—You don’t antagonize a superpower-wannabe, especially one that is so serious it is spending $30 billion on latest weapons. But if you do, get ready to pay the price.
That’s the lesson …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Known for her objective and unbiased approach to issues that concern human existence and for upholding the cause of the oppressed, India’s noted writer, Booker Prize winner and human rights activist Arundhati Roy has, …
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BY Ahmed Quraishi
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—With one shot, Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi managed to alienate Turkey and Iran and give Washington a major Pakistani concession—for free.
In Washington before the start of Pak-US Strategic Dialogue, Pakistani …
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By Erica Gaston
In a Washington Post op-ed on Friday, Charles J. Dunlap argued that reversing existing tactical limitations on international forces’ airstrikes in Afghanistan would allow international forces to kill more insurgents, and thus help …
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By Michael Georgy
KALAYA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan will consider mounting an anti-Taliban offensive in North Waziristan only when other tribal areas are stabilized, a senior military officer said on Tuesday, a position likely to anger …
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Russia’s envoy to NATO on Wednesday dismissed reports that Russian troops could be sent back to Afghanistan two decades after the Soviet Union’s Red Army was forced out by the mujahedeen.
“We’ve already been in Afghanistan …
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by Farooq Hameed Khan
It was the perfect setting for some frank and hard talk, as the Pakistani delegation headed by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi along with General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani arrived in Washington for …
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By Arundhati Roy
SRINAGAR, Indian-Occupied Kashmir—I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public meetings on Kashmir. I …
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By Anjum Niaz
WASHINGTON, DC—Zalmay Khalilzad (ZK) and Asif Zardari (AZ) are good friends. When Asif Zardrai lived in Manhattan and when Khalilzad lived in Manhattan as the US ambassador to the UN they often met …
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By Harris Khan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The Pakistani delegation headed by our very own foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Hussain Qureshi is in session with the U.S delegation in Washington for the third round of the strategic dialogue, …
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Pakistan Army’s Report Card
At an event organized by the British Army for world militaries to compete in toughness, with 750 soldiers participating worldwide, Pakistani soldiers bagged the Gold Medal for being the toughest soldiers capable …
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Mobisher Rabbani | Exclusive to PKKH
On 20 October 2010 His Highness Shaikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, UAE Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Fujairah, inaugurated the Fujairah naval base in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.The site for …
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ISLAMABAD: Stringent conditions are expected to be attached with the new $2 billion US military aid that Pakistan may start receiving from 2012.
Background interviews with American diplomats and Foreign Office officials reveal that the aid will be …
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THERE could be a breakthrough in the deadlocked investigation into the bombings in the Samjhota Express and the Jamia Masjid in Delhi. For the first time, there is an official admission by an Indian investigating …
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Observers say encounters exaggerated to reinforce impression that Nato and Afghan forces are making strategic gains
Recent widely-reported contacts between senior Taliban and the Kabul government have little to do with a peace settlement and involve …
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NEW DELHI, (SANA): While lauding Pakistan’s political, diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmir cause, Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Geelani made it clear that India will never succeeded in suppressing Kashmiris’ just struggle for …
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BY SHIREEN M. MAZARI | Saturday, 23 October 2010.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The Pak-US Strategic Dialogue was upgraded to the Ministerial level this year apparently to allow our extremely US-friendly Foreign Minister to ‘lead’ the discussions.
Of course, we …
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WASHINGTON: The United States is trying to expand a secret CIA operation designed to eliminate radical militants’ havens located in Pakistan near the Afghan border, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday.
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