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‘Yankee Go Home’: Shamsi sanitized

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Pakistan has called a stop to US drone flights from a base that has launched strikes against Taliban and al-Qaeda militants on its border with Afghanistan. In the latest sign of US-Pakistan tensions, Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar, defence minister, said on Wednesday that Islamabad had ended US operations at the Shamsi airbase in Baluchistan. The move [...]

‘Yankee Go Home’: Shamsi sanitized

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Ascendant Imran Khan’s populist Bhuttoism

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Imran Khan is ascendant in Pakistani politics–mainly due to the incompetence, corruption and duplicity of the ruling duo (Zardari and Gilani) and their sentries Kayani and Pasha. In a personal meeting with the PTI chief and in our position paper to Imran Khan posted on stapins.org/stapins.com, we had advised the Khan that he should snatch [...]

Ascendant Imran Khan’s populist Bhuttoism

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Obama hands over Afghanistan to the Talibs

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We have been predicting it for a couple of years. We predicted the beginning of the draw down in 2011 and we again predict the most US forces will leave Afghanistan much before 2014. The fig leaf of “we will stay in Afghanistan” is as fake as the 10,000 soldiers who stay hidden away from [...]

Obama hands over Afghanistan to the Talibs

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Can Imran Khan convert his popularity into Premiership?

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According to the Pew Research, former cricketer Imran Khan who leads the Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf is the most popular Pakistani politician. Mr Khan is ahead of Mr. Nawaz Sharif who ’till recently led the pack. Pew says “Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif fares better: 63% express a positive opinion of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) [...]

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Afghan Pakistan Iran Summit to thwart ‘Blackwill plan’

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Nature abhors a vacuum. Iran along with Russia and China totally understand that the Pakistani foreign policy is on a course correction that happens every decade. Islamabad has already planned reduced political, economic and military dependence on the US. This opens up new vistas for Pakistan. The greater Levant is being constructed. Pakistan’s move away [...]

Afghan Pakistan Iran Summit to thwart ‘Blackwill plan’

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Hina Khar as Foreign Minister is a joke

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Greater fools have represented Pakistan at international forums. Ms. Khar will probably do worse. The post held by one of the most powerful men in the world Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto has been degraded to such an extent that Hina Rabbi Khar today holds the position of Foreign Minister. The PPPP has great stalwarts, Sherry Rehman, [...]

Hina Khar as Foreign Minister is a joke

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Taliban Khan ahead of Maulvi Nawaz Sharif and General Asif Zardari

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Its as if elections were next year, politics in Pakistan has heated up. Maulvi Shairf Zardari has accused General Zardari of “following the policy of destruction.” Maulvi Sharif has also criticizes “the deteriorating law and order situation in the country”. The PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said “that the country’s rulers and foreign agencies were behind [...]

Taliban Khan ahead of Maulvi Nawaz Sharif and General Asif Zardari

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8 pm Downgrades GWOT from Armageddon to Leviticus

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President Obama will make a speech on Wednesday at 8 pm.  The speech will spell out the beginning of the end. It will of course be wrapped up in the usual “we will not abandon Afghans”, and “we will support our freinds and allies”–and of course it will contain the obligatory “Al-Qaeda has been decaptatied [...]

8 pm Downgrades GWOT from Armageddon to Leviticus

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Islam’s unstoppable rise

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Many discuss the condition of Muslims and the number of toys that others have. The right measure of a religion‘s increase is the number of adherents. As Dr. Bulliet calls it, a religion is to be measured by “the number of souls it has saved”. All religions out to save souls and maximize the number [...]

Islam’s unstoppable rise

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Why Talon Sword Robots failed in Afghanistan

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Its not the gun but the man behind the gun that matters. Depite the latest technology the US has been unable to kill the Talibs fast enough. According to press reports there are more than 5000 Talon Swords (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System) weaponized military robots in Afghanistan. Many of them look like little [...]

Why Talon Sword Robots failed in Afghanistan

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