Posted on 07 June 2011.
What does an expedited US withdrawal mean for Pakistan? Paradoxically the war in Afghanistan is both the primary reason for the American.-Pakistan partnership and the single greatest source of U.S.-Pakistan conflict. Rupee News has been predicting for years that the US will begin to withdraw from the Hindu Kush way before the 2012 elections. That [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, Uncategorized, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 07 June 2011.
The question is not whether Congressman Anthony Weiner will resign or not. The question is, how quickly will be be dumped by the Democratic party. With the Clinton machinery working against him that Hot Dog doesn’t have much of a chance. Huma Abedin Abedin born in Kalamazoo, Michigan is the daughter of an Indian college [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, US CA
Posted on 07 June 2011.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that the US is seeking to harm Pakistan‘s Nuclear Facilities. He reiterated that Washington is seeking to sabotage and damage Pakistan’s nuclear facilities in a bid to undermine the country’s security and sovereignty. He said that America wants to prolong its military presence in the region. Pakistani officials are wary [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, US CA
Posted on 06 June 2011.
While Pakistani officials are boldly announcing that Ilyas Kashmir is as dead a door nail, US officials are not so certain about his death. Perhaps the Pakistanis are saying “good riddance to bad rubbish”, one more checked off the list. American and Pakistani authorities seem to be contradicting each other over Kashmiri–the man who supposedly [...]
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Posted on 06 June 2011.
Whoever controls Central Asia Controls the World–Lord Curzon Zaheeruddin Babur tried to conquer Samarqand and could not, so he headed toward Pakistan. The Khyber pass at the time was so thin it barely allowed a man through it. The rest as they is history. When the French got together with the continental Europeans in the [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, Uncategorized, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 06 June 2011.
Authors across the globe are using all sorts of negative adjectives to describe the program while ignoring the growth in nuclear weapons of India and Israel. The Current issue of Newsweek list Pakistan’s Nuclear program as the fastest growing with 200+ nukes headed towards third largest arsenal after US and USSR–more than France which currently [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Uncategorized
Posted on 05 June 2011.
The Economist calls it the world’s “most dangerous border”–this week it is. During the 2001-02 Op Parakram it took Bharati troops months to mobilize. The Pakistanis watching the war games were able to meet and greet the Bharati forces on the bdrder much before the Bharati mobilization got completed. This “V” Corps was mobilised by [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 04 June 2011.
Newsweek Pakistan (From the March 21‚ 2011‚ issue) has just published a list of “100 Women Who Shake Pakistan” The list is interesting in many ways. It does describe many of the famous political figures, but it also lists entertainers and artists. The list is interesting in many ways. For example, it misses some of [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 03 June 2011.
If you missed the Chinese warning, those in power in Delhi and Washington were very aware of this. “Any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China” is a pretty strong statement coming from any quarter. Beijing has thus drawn a red line for the US and NATO, or any other motley [...]
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Posted on 03 June 2011.
We are all aware of Hillary Clinton’s recent boast in front of the Pakistan media. “We provide more support than Saudi Arabia, China, and everybody else combined, but I will stand here and admit that I’m not sure many Pakistanis know that,” US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said in Islamabad on May 27. Various [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, Uncategorized, US CA, US Poli