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 Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, on his visit to Saudi Arabia made the surprise offer of dialogue to Pakistan on all issues ranging from Kashmir, Indus Water Treaty to Terrorism. This Indian pronouncement within days after scuttling the Secretary-level talks in Delhi is really baffling. Both India and Pakistan entered the Delhi talks [...]
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 US duplicity in its dealings with Pakistan continues unabated and I have always maintained that the scale of their enterprise in destabilising Pakistan can only be understood by finding linkages in seemingly unconnected events and publications. Just when the Pakistan military has taken a strong position on its military operations in FATA and the [...]
US is facing defeat like situation in Afghanistan, which compelled top bosses at Pentagon and White House to reconsider US’ Afghan strategy. The heavy toll of alien forces at the hand of Taliban since last two years, especially in the months of December 2009, January and February 2010 forced the foreign forces to pullout their [...]
This article is highlighting the threats Pakistan may face from Afghanistan and India in near future in the lights of the current Afghan Policy set in London and in the speech of the US President Barack Obama.
While America is pushing more and more troops in Afghanistan and its generals are admitting defeat, the local Afghan leaders like Hamid Karzai are rising upto the reality that the only way for the peace is by talking to the Taliban. It an open reality that America is not winning this war, civilian casualities are [...]
In a u-turn, US has changed its policy towards India. All of a sudden US has become friendly with India, presumably due to consensus of both the countries on a number of issues, especially eradicating fundamentalist Muslims from Pakistan and Afghanistan. In a joint effort, an attempt has been made to curtail nuclear capabilities of [...]
Sequel to the policy speech on Afghan strategy, various opinions and comments have appeared in the US press indicating that Pakistan needs to expand war against terrorists and extremists to other areas in Pakistan. The New York Times reported in its edition of 8 December that the US has warned Pakistan that its forces would [...]
