While the Obama administration is watching the battlefield in Afghanistan, hoping for a quick weakening of the Taliban, regional powers are ratcheting up tensions in and outside that country. Pakistan and Iran in particular want to ensure that by the time the United States is ready to talk to the Taliban, the region’s future will [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against US President Barack Obama, demanding legal basis for America’s deadly drone attacks overseas.
The lawsuit requests essential information on the fatalities of drone strikes and other information essential for judging the legality of using armed drones to carry out targeted killings, the United Press International [...]
Activists of anti Pakistan nationalist groups were the focus of Indian search for recruits who received cash, weapons and ammunitions from undercover RAW operatives masquerading as Al Qaeda agents
APP, New Delhi-Even as India and Pakistan were actively engaged in laying a framework for normalizing their relations in the aftermath of Operation Parkaram (Dec 2001- Oct [...]
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 stages of history are replete with chants and choruses of the conquerors of old who came killing in pursuit of peace”. Martin Luther King
The attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas day and the “revelation” that al-Qaeda has regrouped and is planning more attacks from Yemen is generating renewed attention to [...]
Editors’ Note: This week the trial of one of the most wanted women in the war on terrorism begins in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. The defendant, Aafia Siddiqui, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist and suspected Al Qaeda operative. Siddiqui lived in the U.S. for ten years before mysteriously vanishing from her hometown in Karachi [...]
After the Mumbai bomb blasts last November, Indian print and electronic media directly criticised Pakistan and tried to create an image of it as a failed state. Non-journalistic and undiplomatic language was used against Pakistan, which brought both countries very close to a terrible war. Timely and truthful analysis and commentary by Pakistani media helped [...]
On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN, the New York Times and other sources that he was “suspected” of having been trained [...]
No other nation in the world has so badly faced the consequences of 9/11 as did Pakistan. In fact, Pakistan is the only affectee of this imbroglio which has incurred cumulative losses of more than 38 billion dollars with little respite to shoulder the gasping economy. On the other hand, Indo-Israeli covert support to Taliban [...]
It certainly means a lot, even more so as compared to any address given by our own president or premier or any other notable government (dys)functionary. It means a lot when we read and understand Obama’s helpeness in his speech regarding the war against terror. It becomes extraordinarily crucial when we read the same approach [...]
