Posted on 23 July 2010. Tags: Siraj Haqqani
Mr. Siraj Haqqani was invited by President Reagan to the White House as part of the honor given to the Afghan Mujahideen for defeating the USSR. As the end game nears in Afghanistan, the State Department has decided to call the former “Freedom Fighter” (Reagan’s words) a terrorist. How much has changed from Reagan to [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2010.
As expected General Petraeus has canceled the plans to attack Qandahar. The attack doesn’t make any sense while Mr. Hamid Karzai is trying to build relationships with the Afghan National Resistence (aka Taliban). He has decided a full-scale military encirclement and invasion – as American troops had done in Iraq’s Fallujah – was not an [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2010.
A trade MOU was signed with Afghanistan which may have been a per-requisite to a real treaty. It now seems that the photo-op for Hillary Clinton may not actually turn into a Trade Treaty. There is huge opposition from the business community to the current Trade MOU. Afghan Commerce Minister Anwar ul-Haq-Ahadi (left) and his [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2010.
This is the third time that a leader which was claimed dead by the CIA has resurfaced and is really alive and well. On various occasions, especially right before crucial negotiations, the CIA makes the claim that it has killed top terror leader in Pakistan. This is usually done to curry favor with the Pakistani [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2010.
WASHINGTON — Two US lawmakers — a Republican and a Democrat — proposed a bill this week demanding the withdrawal of all US troops in Pakistan, where they are conducting covert operations against militants. “We have known that US forces have been operating in secret inside the territories of Pakistan without congressional approval,” Democratic Representative [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2010.
Bharat is working to partition Afghanistan, so that it can create “Pakktunistan” within Afghanistan. It wants to egg on the Abdullah Abdullah clan in forming their own Non-Pakhtun region independent from Kabul. It wants to get the support of Iran to do this. That help is not available this time around. Bharat wants to use the Afghan “Pakhtunistan” to put pressure on the Pakistani Pakhtuns and use the progeny of the Frontier Gandhi to put pressure on Pakistan and to destabilize it from the Western front. Fully realizing the that Nuclear bombs seal Pakistan’s Eastern flank, it wants to continue to use terror as a means to pursue its irredentist and revanchist dreams.
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Posted on 23 July 2010. Tags: Oil and Gas Development Corporation (OGDC)
According to credible reports, Pakistan’s Oil and Gas Development Corporation (OGDC) will be purchasing the BP-Pakistan assets which are being sold as a result of BPs woes in North America. OGDC has been successful in finding oil in places where the foreign companies were unable or unwilling to dig. However OGDC has been weak in [...]
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Posted on 22 July 2010. Tags: Egypt, Gaza, Israel
23 July 2010, RAFAH, Gaza Strip — A Palestinian tunnel smuggler with a blowtorch sliced through an underground steel wall early Thursday, the latest of what officials say are hundreds of holes cut into the Egyptian barrier meant to stop smuggling of goods, cash and weapons to the blockaded, Hamas-run Gaza Strip. JRL108 Smugglers say [...]
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Posted on 22 July 2010.
Success has many fathers. Failure is an orphan. The successive foreign policy failures of the Bharati (aka Indian) government is taking its toll in Delhi. The fiascoes in Kabul and London have emboldened the opposition to excoriate the government over hot coals. The Indian Expresses describes the confusion in South Block and in the Lok [...]
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Posted on 22 July 2010. Tags: Kashmir
Bhago Bhago Lashkar Aaya Jeeway Jeeway Pakistan Bhooka Nanga Hindustan Dil Seh Piyara Pakistan Tijarat to bahana hai Rawalpindi to jana hai Syed Geelini, and Asiya Andarabi are the pro-Pakistani Kashmiri leaders who have paralyzed the Valley with strikes, shut-downs, and sit-ins. The Hindu reports on the new normal in Srinagar. Fifteen days after troops [...]
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