Posted on 22 February 2011.
The Guardian has once again dropped a bombshell–one day after publishing the explosive news that “Raymond Davis” was not a diplomat “Beyond a shadow of doubt”. Today the Guardian exploded the news that “Raymond Davis” the CIA agent worked for XE. Clearly this will complicate matters tremendously. The Guardian is right “Confirmation that he worked [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, Uncategorized, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 22 February 2011.
Najam Sethi is eloquent suave and understands the politics of Pakistan. He is a dalring of the West and speaks many languages. The best language he speaks is Schmooze. Is Najam Sethi’s Dunya TV going down or has it been sold to sane people? I was astonished to find that some of the former hosts [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2011.
From the very beginning it was evident that the Pakistanis were holding out on vital information and were giving the Americans enough rope to hang themselves with. Within a few days it was clear that “Raymond Davis” wasn’t going anywhere. The renovation of Kot Lakhpath Jail, the surveillance cameras and the rings of security were [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 21 February 2011.
It seems that “Raymond Davis” is singing like a bird. In a Mad Hatter’s world, all this would makes sense. The Nation, one of the largest circulation newspapers with a colossal followin in Pakistan is reporting today that “Raymond Davis” is the Central Intelligence Agencies acting head in Pakistan. This may be the biggest spay [...]
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Posted on 21 February 2011.
Plausible deniability refers to the denial of blame in loose and informal chains of command. Spy Agencies use it to plant operatives in countries where it want to achieve their purpose. Plausible deniability can work in one-off operations. However when the one-off operations are the modus operendi (MO) of unsavory charcters, then things begin falling apart. [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Uncategorized, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 20 February 2011.
Various Pakistan, Indian and UK sources have identified “Davis” as a CIA man. The Guardia and the Telgrpah ran stories saying that he was a CIA man “without a shadow of a doubt”. The Telgrpah’s headline scream “US official held in Pakistan ‘is CIA’”. Several US news outlets have reportedly learned of Davis’ true identity [...]
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Posted on 20 February 2011.
Pakistan has about 80 TV channels. Almost all of them are news and views channels. Politics is discussed in Pakistan, like sports scores are discussed in America. Prominent jurists and diplomats gathered in TV Talk shows on about 80 channels have come to the unanimous consensus opinion that the the verdict in the Lahore High [...]
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Posted on 20 February 2011.
Hinduist extremists in Bharat are coming out of the woodwork to prevent “Aman Ke Asha” music from across the border to come into Bharat. That dove was blown out of the sky with a Bren Gun. One of the outfits, with a strange moniker–the “Maharashtra Cine, TV Sena,” is demanding Bollywood to desist from hiring [...]
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Posted on 20 February 2011.
The Guardian is a fiercely independent British Newspaper, and perhaps one of the few one of the few, if not the only one that die not get caught up in the euphoria of the Iraq war and did not support it. Declan Walsh in Lahore and Ewen MacAskill in Washington reporting for the Guardian have [...]
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Posted on 20 February 2011.
Analysts had hoped that the recent shuffle of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet would have eliminated one of the most corrupt and incompetent Ministers–the Minister of Railways Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour. Mr. Bilour has shut down fully functional trains and not been able to reduce the corruption and inefficiency of the network. In answer to any [...]
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