Articles by Muhammad Umar Muzaffar
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by Matthew Rosenberg
Pakistan is lobbying Afghanistan’s president against building a long-term strategic partnership with the U.S., urging him instead to look to Pakistan—and its Chinese ally—for help in striking a peace deal with the Taliban …
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Leaked Guantánamo papers link UK to Algerian militant
An al-Qaida operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was at the same time working for British intelligence, according to …
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Thousands of immigrants from India, mostly Sikhs, have crossed into the United States illegally at the southern tip of Texas in the last year, complaining of political and religious persecution at home, a major American …
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New Delhi: He went to find out why his ATM card was not working. He came back insulted and abused. His fault? He was a Muslim. Khalid Ali Abbasi, an 18-year-old Political Science student …
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Raymond Davis has outraged most Pakistanis and raised nagging questions about the nature of the US role in Pakistan, about the integrity of powerful sections of the media and intelligentsia, and about the political opportunism …
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May 30, 2008
Classified By: Anne
W. Patterson
SUMMARY: On May 26, Codel Schiff — US Representatives Adam Schiff and Allyson Schwartz — met Pakistan People`s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Zardari, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, NSA Ambassador …
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President Hamid Karzai’s chief of staff has said British authorities brought a fake Taliban commander into sensitive meetings with the Afghan government.
The British embassy refused to confirm or deny the remarks, made in an interview …
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By Jason Motlagh / Ghazni
NATO leaders stuck to an upbeat script at their Lisbon summit during the weekend of Nov. 19-21, announcing a formal timetable aimed at ending combat operations in Afghanistan and leaving security …
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By Ikram Sehgal
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Reko Diq is a remote location in the north-west of Chagai, a sparsely populated district in north-western Balochistan. The weather in the desert there ranges from searing summers of 40-50°C to freezing …
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Cuba’s Fidel Castro has called NATO a “military mafia” involved in a “genocidal” war in Afghanistan, as the alliance vows to keep troops there beyond a 2014 deadline.
In an article published on Tuesday, the former …
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NEW DELHI – He is no soldier of fortune. Ashok Kumar says he only wants what is his due. The ex-Border Security Force constable alleged that he was ill-treated by his department and was expelled …
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By Sultan M Hali
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The Daily Mail, in its editorial of 5 Nov. 2010, titled, Battered Obama Heads On Asian Tour, had predicted that the Indians would roll out the red carpet to Obama and …
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LAHORE: Pakistan and China have a unanimous stance that India should not be given the permanent member status of the United Nations Security Council, as it would disturb balance of power in the region, Foreign …
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- Ignore Kashmir, as the United States does, and the conflict seems incomprehensible. Include Kashmir in the picture, and it all makes sense.
- This confrontation ravages Afghanistan, where the Northern Alliance, which was organized to …
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US President Barack Obama has already begun his 10-day trip to Asia where he would be visiting Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and India. Obama’s trip to Japan, South Korea and Indonesia is seen as a …
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LAHORE: The Supreme Court has been requested via a petition to order the federal and provincial governments to renegotiate the Reko Diq mining contract, set to expire in the last week of this month, in …
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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 …
