President Obama’s AF–PAK policy unveiled only last year is dead. There is a paradigm shift, in a total turnaround to Obama’s inaugural pledge to defeat Al-Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan. Today US and ISAF appear reconciled to the fact that, they cannot defeat them. The new design is to get the Afghan government to engage [...]
The Pakistani army’s fight against Taliban insurgents continues successfully in the FATA area and its surroundings. Despite many pledges from the friends of Pakistan only a couple of countries have made good their commitments whereas the other friends are yet to make good on their pledges. Despite the lacklustre response from the world on helping [...]
Once again the US divisive rhetoric of ‘Quetta shura’ is in spin which indicates that US is now all out to push her Afghanistan war inside Pakistan. Pak government has expressed its ‘surprise’ at the latest volatile interview of US Ambassador Anne W Patterson and said that there was clearly a “huge disconnect” between Washington [...]
In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked what should have been some of the country’s best-guarded targets. In the most brazen strike, ten gunmen penetrated the Army’s main headquarters, in Rawalpindi, instigating a twenty-two-hour [...]
People like Seymour M. Herch waste no moment to ridicule the efforts and sacrifice of Pakistan military and Pakistani people in the war against terror, which was started by the Americans, and the primary reason why this war is still going on is that the Americans are failing in Afghanistan and their presence in the [...]
The more one hears the discussion among American Democrats about the war in Afghanistan, the more one feels that it is a serious handicap that Barrack Obama has no personal experience of international relations or of foreign policy or military service, beyond such experience as one gains as a first-term U.S. senator.
His vice president, Joe [...]
