President Zardari Asif Ali Zardari announced some days ago that he was transferring formal control over Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. That came as a surprise to many and many jumped to the conclusion that it showed the mounting pressure upon the presidency in the wake of NRO and the deteriorating [...]
After Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, now Yemen is the new target of US and NATO forces.
According to the media reports, secretary of State Hillary Clinton said instability in Yemen posed a global threat and pledged on Monday to plug any holes in U.S. security procedures after a Christmas Day airline bombing attempt. Clinton, in her [...]
Going to Lahore on the same day that Hillary Clinton decided to pay a visit there was probably not the best idea of my life. Not that I had much choice – family members were arriving from the UK and had to be met at the airport and transported back to Bahawalpur. Travelling up through [...]
There has always been in American foreign policy circles, a virus called ‘arrogance’, caused by the hereditary assumption that Americans know better than others. Surprisingly, this does not always prove the case, but the condition seems highly resistant to treatment, even by experience.
There seems a high probability that the disease has struck Obama administration policy [...]
Arch rivals Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari had no option but to meet and greet each other on the heels of a visit by America’s No. 2 person, Hillary Clinton. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton starts her visit to Pakistan, and will be in the land of pure for three days. The [...]
Gore Vidal, 83, described as America’s greatest essayist and one of its best-selling novelists, says he has in his life “crashed many barriers.” Vidal’s brutal manner of criticism hasn’t waned. The United States of America, he says, is a “madhouse” and its President is “overwhelmed” and “incompetent”.
Last year he famously switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton [...]
It’s amazingly strange as how American officials become so changed in New Delhi and how they change color as soon as they land in Islamabad. First Richard Holbrooke and now Hillary Clinton have made two recent examples of this attitude.
The visiting United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday said here that there’s a real [...]
“There is a real national mood change on the part of the Pakistani people that we are watching and obviously encouraged by”
– Hillary Rodham Clinton, at Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 20, 2009.
What Mrs. Clinton is referring to are growing signs of Pakistanis showing support for their country and speaking out on the issues surrounding [...]
Taliban are the product of Pakistani ISI and American CIA against the then mighty USSR. USSR dismembered, America won the cold war, Afghanistan became a lawless land, while Pakistan got the gift of heoin, klashnikov, and Taliban. Those Taliban were left in the cold and now they have come back to haunt both Pakistan and [...]
Change is manifesting across the nation. Change of minds. Maybe even change of hearts.
All parties conference came out with a unanimous statement supporting government action in Swat. This is a welcome move. The implications are obvious. The government can focus on the task at hand. And since every political leader has signed up to it, [...]
