The United Arab Emirates’ plan to become the first Arab country to operate a nuclear power plant is a step closer to fruition with the announcement in December 2009 that it had selected a Korean consortium to build four nuclear-power reactors. Though other Gulf States have in recent years declared their intention to explore nuclear [...]
The explosives-laden underwear–worn by an airline passenger who had previously been flagged as a potentially dangerous fanatic, and who had paid cash for his ticket and had no checked luggage–was the terrorist’s weapon of choice, one that could have blown a hole in the side of Northwest Airlines’ Detroit-bound Flight 253 on Christmas Day, killing [...]
Pakistan was created on the bases of two nation’s theory to secure a separate ideological homeland for Muslims in the Indian subcontinent. But soon after the inception of Pakistan, this nation plunged into a deluge of turmoil that its two founding fathers Muhammad Ali Jinnah; the Qaid e Azam and PM Liaqat Ali Khan; their [...]
U.S. citizen David Headley, aka Daood Gilani, who was arrested in connection with last year’s Mumbai terrorist attacks, may have been a double agent for the CIA at the time of the incident, according to U.S. journalists.
More than 160 people were killed in the financial hub of Mumbai in three days of attacks by a [...]
Kudos to CJP, I M Choudhary that he has been able to read the writings on the wall and felt the prevalent heat in the Pakistani streets that NRO was never a reconciliation and neither it carried any conciliatory spirit in it but was a verdict since ordained to facilitate a few to enable them to [...]
When President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak?
U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for a security force ratio of 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every [...]
A report is published by Reuters on 15 December, 2009 from Islamabad. Report Excerpt as follows:
Pakistan remains among Asia’s riskiest investment destinations, with a weak government struggling to contain a deadly domestic insurgency.
Following is a summary of key Pakistan risks to watch:
* INTERNAL SECURITY
Large swathes of Pakistan remain outside government control, run by the Taliban [...]
The war on terror declared by USA after the incident of 9/11 was ultimately brought to our western borders under the pretext that US lead NATO forces had come here fighting all the way chasing the terrorists of Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda a stateless organisation was declared by US as their enemy. Allegedly this organisation was [...]
The US President has given us a strong military plan, but where was the political strategy — and usual confidence which symbolizes a US President; says right minded Paddy Ashdown-Bosnia fame International Community’s High representative.
The Taliban’s favourite phrase in recent months has been: “The elephant is down, now all we have to do is— slay [...]
President Obama won’t unveil his plans for Afghanistan until next week, but military officials tell that he intends to escalate the war by sending up to 35,000 additional troops and it is likely that they may find themselve pitched against Pakistan Armed Forces operating along Pak-Afghan border and some new battle grounds are opened. US Press secretary [...]
