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Islamabad-Istanbul links: $20 Bln Rail Upgrade Project

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ISTANBUL (Turkey): Pakistan and Turkey agreed Monday to undertake a US $ 20 billion project to upgrade a railway link from Islamabad to Istanbul, basically to speedily transport cargo from Pakistan to Turkey and ultimately to Europe. Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan confirm Taliban inclusion Policy India livid after Turkey snubs Delhi on Afghan Conference Peace enjoyed by Pakistan [...]

Islamabad-Istanbul links: $20 Bln Rail Upgrade Project

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Pakistan counters Indian machinitions in Afghanistan

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* Islamabad believes India is looking to Afghanistan for destabilising Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has successfully mobilised the defunct six-plus-two talks formula to counter the US pressure regarding giving India a “greater role” in warn-torn Afghanistan’s rehabilitation. Afghanistan’s immediate neighbours – Pakistan, Iran, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as the US, are meeting today (Tuesday) [...]

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Pakistani countermeasures to Cold Start Strategy–battle-ready nuclear weapons

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Responding to the “Surgical Strikes”: Neutralizing Delhi’s Cold Start strategy: Nuclear deterrence & Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) blunts Bharat’s Cold Start Strategy Why India did not attack Pakistan in 2002 and 2008? The India-Pakistan war Delhi’s Cold Start Strategy Frozen DOA (Dead on Arrival) Responding to the “Surgical Strikes”: Neutralizing Delhi’s Cold Start strategy: Pakistani response [...]

Pakistani countermeasures to Cold Start Strategy–battle-ready nuclear weapons

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India sidelined at London Conference on Afghanistan

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There is only one sentence to describe Bharati (aka Indian) attendance in the London conference on Afghanistan–”Bharat was addded as an afterthought, and after much yelling and screaming by Delhi”. Islamabad believes India is looking to Afghanistan for destabilising Pakistan Delhi was reluctantly invited to the London conference, but it might as well have not been invited. [...]

India sidelined at London Conference on Afghanistan

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Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan confirm Taliban inclusion Policy

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his plan to re-integrate some Taliban insurgents back into society has the support of Western governments that back his government. Mr. Karzai spoke in Turkey, where he met with Pakistani and Turkish leaders on the eve of a major London conference on Afghanistan. . The meeting of Afghan and Pakistan [...]

Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan confirm Taliban inclusion Policy

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US supports Pakistan's Taliban plan–India livid

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WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday was noncommittal but did not rule out Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s plan to ask for Taliban names to be removed from a UN blacklist to spur reconciliation. Karzai said before heading for a major international conference on Afghanistan in London this week that he would also seek Western [...]

US supports Pakistan's Taliban plan–India livid

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West 'backs Taliban plan' overrules India

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Afghanistan’s renewed efforts for reconciliation with the Taliban have the backing of the US and Europe, Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said. Karzai’s plans, scheduled to be discussed at a conference in London on Thursday, include reintegrating Taliban fighters into society by paying and resettling them if they lay down their weapons. “This … [...]

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Taliban part of Afghan solution: Gen McChrystal

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The commander of US forces in Afghanistan said that Afghan government negotiations with the Taliban could be part of a political solution to the conflict in Afghanistan, in an interview published Monday. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s remarks, though hardly the first mention of talks with the Taliban by a US military official, come before an international [...]

Taliban part of Afghan solution: Gen McChrystal

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Global power India?

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The conceptualisation abilities of the Punjabi language are amazingly broad and insightful. Its euphemisms are extremely meaningful and accurate. It has the inherent ability to kooze meh darya band karna (put something in a nutshell). Barkah marna is a Punjabi expression meaning making empty threats by loud noises and claims – a verbal exercise to [...]

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All Taliban are not terrorists: UN–US agrees

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The top UN envoy in Afghanistan has urged Afghan officials to seek the removal of at least some senior Taliban leaders from the world body’s list of terrorists, as a first step toward opening direct negotiations with the insurgent group. In an interview with The New York Times, Kai Eide, the UN Secretary-General’s special representative, [...]

All Taliban are not terrorists: UN–US agrees

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