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Thursday June 23, 2011 was a red letter day for Pakistan. A country which is accused of harbouring, aiding and abetting terrorists, despite being the foremost victim of terror attacks, ransomed, rescued and safely transported …

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US President Barack Obama’s announcement of a gradual troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and confirmation of overtures being made to the Taliban represent the formal beginning of the endgame.
This should be a moment of joy to …

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KABUL: A hotel popular with Westerners in the Afghan capital has come under attack by gunmen and suicide bombers.
Kabul’s police chief told the BBC that security forces were exchanging fire with up to six …

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The announcements of a drawdown of  and talUS troopsks with the Taliban are welcome. But Obama’s Afghanistan policy is still muddled.

The United States’ exit from its costly 10-year war in Afghanistan has begun. …

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Pakistan has told Britain to pull out some of its military trainers, in what appears to be the latest sign of strained relations with the West after last month’s killing of Osama bin Laden by US troops.
“The UK has …

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By Prof Lawrence Davidson
Part I – The Draw Down
Back in December of 2009 President Obamacommitted the U.S. to an “Afghan surge.” He allocated an additional 30,000 soldiers for a projected 18 months in …

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Greater fools have represented Pakistan at international forums. Ms. Khar will probably do worse. The post held by one of the most powerful men in the world Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto has been degraded …

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Anti-ISI campaign in the US media must not be transferred inside Pakistan, where the US has groomed proxies working on an American political agenda. Even CIA was not demonized after its epic 9/11 …

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by Jemima Khan
Alhamdulillah! President Barack Obama is finally withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.
Except he’s not – only those extras that he deployed in the “surge” of 2009; 68,000 will remain, double the number sent by his …

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The withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, formalised by Barack Obama early yesterday, cannot be precisely compared to America’s humiliation in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago. There have been no photographs – not yet, anyway …

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Resign of Marvi Memon From MNA Seat and Discussion On Zardari’s Speech. Senator Mushahid Ullah Khan PML-N, Asma Arbab Alamgir PPP and Marvi Memon Resigned MNA PML-Q Talk With Javed Chaudhry.

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Brig. Khan is a loyal and upright officer, but contacting a foreign, non-Pakistani group linked to British intelligence is a breach and a question of counterintelligence. US media is twisting the story to feed its …

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The US is talking of the much expected withdrawal at the heels of three failing surges from Afghanistan with a new mission statement that replaces Afghanistan with Pakistan. As the events unfold …

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WASHINGTON: The United States needs Pakistan more than the key South Asian country needs the US, a former American ambassador to India acknowledged while citing Washington’s heavy reliance on Pakistani cooperation for …

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Should the Pakistan Army launch an operation in North Waziristan Agency (NWA)? Short answer: No. Is the so-called Haqqani network as deadly for US-Nato-Isaf troops as American official and media blitz suggests? No. …

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Suicide attacks ‘Haram’: NWA Ulema
MIRANSHAH: A meeting of 300 eminent religious scholars and Ulema have unanimously agreed and pronounced condemning all forms of terrorists’ activities in North Waziristan Agency and issued stern …

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At least ten people were killed and two Naval P3-C Orion surveillance aircraft were destroyed in the terrorist attack on PNS Mehran Naval base.
What was expected is now being confirmed by sophisticated blood tests and …

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Britain faces no serious threat, yet keeps waging war. While big defence exists, glory-hungry politicians will use it.

Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for …

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Lt. Col. Clay Padgett, commander of the Army battalion overseeing Kandahar, was on leave in the U.S. in May when Taliban fighters stormed government buildings in Kandahar and created the impression of a …

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Pakistan on Friday night registered a protest with India on the Indian Navy ship Godavari hampering humanitarian operations being carried out by Pakistan Navy’s ship Babur for MV Suez — that had earlier …

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By Shahzad Chaudhry
Robert Kaplan’s new book Monsoon suggests a newer dimension of the twenty-first century’s great game. He posits that anyone controlling the two choke points in the Indian Ocean, Hormuz and Malacca, …

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Intensification of psychological war against our nuclear program

By Brig Asif Haroon Raja
Our suspicions about ill-designs of USA and its strategic allies Israel and India concerning Pakistan’s nuclear program are now turning into reality. …

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In the days following the raid that discovered and killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan’s top spymaster recalled that he had long made his feelings plain to his American allies. Where the two countries’ …

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By Brig Asif Haroon Raja
Till 9/11, Pakistan was a fairly stable and prosperous country but its complexion changed once Gen Musharraf opted to align Pakistan with USA and become its coalition partner. War …