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Cancer or Afghan fabric: Gates confused about Taliban

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Jobs for Afghan Taliban: Duplicate this policy in Pakistan Political reconciliation with militants in Afghanistan has to be mirrored i… Taliban in Kabul government: Stop the war in Pakistan On his first trip here in three years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates had a hard time making up his mind about the Taliban. During a [...]

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Samjhota Express terror against Pakistanis: Why is India hiding Prohit?

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When terrorists blew up the Samjhota Express laden with Pakistanis returning home–the Bharati (aka Indian) propoganda machinery went into high gear blaming the Lashkars in Pakistan. All sorts of vituperative venom was spewed on Islamabad. The truth came out, but not soon enough. The internal investigations revealed that t sitting Colonel of the Bharati Army Lt. Col. Proihit not only was [...]

Samjhota Express terror against Pakistanis: Why is India hiding Prohit?

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At One Year: How Obama squandered a presidency

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Looking back at President Obama’s first year in office, The Nation asked members of its community to give their assesment of his performance. You can share your take on Obama’s highest and lowest moments in the form provided here. Here is historian Howard Zinn’s response: I’ve been searching hard for a highlight. The only thing [...]

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Conan Obama: Can You Hear Us Now? How About in Mass?

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There’s only one political party in the entire world that is so inept, cowardly and bungling that it could manage to simultaneously lick the boots of Wall Street bankers and then get blamed by the voters for being flaming revolutionary socialists. It’s the same party that has allowed the opposition to go on a thirty [...]

Conan Obama: Can You Hear Us Now? How About in Mass?

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Democrats: We are all Dennis Kucinich Now

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The results in Massachusetts, Arkansas, New York, Ohio and Indiana show that Democrats are probably a lot closer to Dennis Kucinich than they are to the so-called “centrists” like Joe Lieberman whose corporatism has dictated the terms of the Senate health care bill. Raw Story spoke to Kucinich: The 13-year congressman lamented the lack of [...]

Democrats: We are all Dennis Kucinich Now

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Mr Holbrooke the consummate 'Ugly American'

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Despite the Pakistani army’s crushing offensives against the Taliban in Swat, Malakand and, more recently, in South Waziristan, serious policy differences persist between Washington and Islamabad. The pressure on Pakistan to take the fight to North Waziristan to neutralise the Jalaluddin Haqqani network is mounting since the nexus between the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban is [...]

Mr Holbrooke the consummate 'Ugly American'

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Most popular Pakistani leader on Facebook?

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LAHORE: The face of Pakistani leadership may be entirely different now compared to a few years back but the Facebook fan club of former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf with over 100,000 fans shows that the former president still rules the roost, at least in the cyberworld, beating President Asif Ali Zardari’s page, which has [...]

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200,000 Indian Farm commit Suicide

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There were at least 16,196 farmers’ suicides in India in 2008, bringing the total since 1997 to 199,132, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The share of the Big 5 States or ‘suicide belt’ in 2008 — Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh — remained very high at 10,797, or 66.6 [...]

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Gates confirms Blackwater in Pakistan. Resign Mr. Malik

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Mr. Rehamn had claimed that if the presence of Blackwater in Pakistan was confirmed, he would resign. The US Secretary of Defense has now confirmed the presence of Blackwater/Xe etc in Pakistan. Mr. Rehman should now resign on two counts. First not knowing that Xe was present in Pakistan, or lying to the the people [...]

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US-Hikmatyar peace deal brokered by Pakistan

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KABUL—One of the three main leaders of the Afghan insurgency, mercurial warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has a long history of switching sides, and once fought against his current Taliban allies. Now, he has held out the possibility of negotiating with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and outlined a roadmap for political reconciliation, opening what could be the [...]

US-Hikmatyar peace deal brokered by Pakistan

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