Posted on 25 November 2011.
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Posted on 25 November 2011.
There was much criticism of Imran Khan for his answers in the Karan Thapar questions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Odj5Buiuk (soem overlap). Imran Khan clirifies his stance on Kashmir
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Posted on 23 November 2011.
The change in Washington was a good one. It was three years too late, but nevertheless it is a move in the right direction. Mr. Haqqani had too much baggage and his book spewed too much venom against the Pakistani state–to make him an affective representative of Pakistan. We woudl say “good riddance to bad [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli12 Comments
Posted on 22 November 2011.
“I have requested [the prime minister, Yousaf Raza] Gilani to accept my resignation as Pakistan ambassador to US,” Haqqani announced on Twitter. “I have much to contribute to building a new Pakistan free of bigotry and intolerance. Will focus energies on that.” Hussain Haqqani Mr Haqqanis tenure as the Pakistani Ambassador to the Washington is [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2011.
Reams can be written on how badly the PPP has handled national issues. It is incompetent, unethical and obsequious. The PPP government is horrid at governance, really bad in corruption, and disloyal when it comes to US Aid, but it is one of the best governments in Pakistan when it comes to creating consensus. It [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2011.
Boiling the South China Sea: China faces threats from Philippines aligned with S. Korea and US Prof. Lyle Goldstein advised the US Foreign Policy magazine “Southeast Asia matters not a whit in the global balance of power.” Obviously that advice fell on deaf ears. Even as the West teeters on the brink of a second [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2011.
flag of the Kingdom of Egypt (1922–1958). Image via Wikipedia There were several attmpt to hijack the Iranian revolution. Field Marshall Tantawi reigned supreme in Egypt. He betrayed those who appointed him, and put Hosni Mubarak in a cage to be trid by a Kangaroo Court. He abrogated the Egyptian Consitution, dissolved the semblance [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2011.
Imran Khan: Hear this loudly and clearly, ‘Kashmir is a territorial dispute’. Call a spade a spade. Imran Khanwas trapped by the Bharti reporter and he screwed up–it was as plain and simple as that–an error in judgement and a bad choice of words. Obvioulsy we also saw exceprts. A seasoned politician like Zulfiqar Ali [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2011.
Brent Kennedy’s assestion that “perhaps Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, was Melungeon. It somehow seems fitting that one of America’s greatest Presidents should be of mixed race and probably Muslim heritage.” He expalins further that in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquision of 1492 “Muslims were exiled from Spain and Portugal through a [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2011.
At the behest of the Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, the Philippines has been playing an active hand in boiling the South China Sea. The Phillipones has not only renamed some water areas as “West Philippine Sea,”: following its President Aquino‘s lead, the Philippine weather bureau has adopted the name “West Philippine [...]
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