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Fisk: Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared'
Znet Article, March, 20 2010
Robert Fisk
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If you want to know how brutally Pakistan treats its people, you should meet Amina Janjua. An intelligent painter and interior designer, she sits on the vast sofa of her living room in Rawalpindi – a room that somehow accentuates her loneliness – ...
Bidwai: Engaging Pakistan
Znet Article, March, 14 2010
Praful Bidwai
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India must open a broad-horizon dialogue with Pakistan on all issues including Afghanistan to achieve real progress in bilateral relations.
Ali: Scope for hope on the subcontinent?
Znet Article, March, 03 2010
Mahir Ali
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There is precious little risk of anyone putting too much store by last week’s talks between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan. Although Nirupama Rao and Salman Bashir parted on a vaguely civil note by agreeing that the channels of comm...
Porter: Jailed Taliban Leader Still a Pakistani Asset
Znet Article, February, 20 2010
Gareth Porter
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Contrary to initial U.S. suggestions that it signals reduced Pakistani support for the Taliban, the detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the operational leader of the Afghan Taliban, represents a shift by Pakistan to more open support for the ...
Cole: Gates Strikes Out In Pakistan
Znet Article, February, 06 2010
Juan Cole
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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates's trip to Pakistan this weekend has in many ways been public relations disaster, and I think it is fair to say that he came away empty-handed with regard to his chief policy goals in Islamabad. Getting Pakistan...
Turse: The Drone Surge
Znet Article, January, 25 2010
Nick Turse
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Pentagon plans for drone wars into the future
Cole: Could The Pakistani Government Fall Over Karachi Violence?
Znet Article, January, 13 2010
Juan Cole
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The ongoing political turmoil in a major Pakistani city to which few Americans pay much attention could nevertheless prove pivotal to the Obama administration's AfPak project.
Kelly: Speaking Truth to Power
Commentary, January, 10 2010
Kathy Kelly
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There's a phrase originating with the peace activism of the American Quaker movement: "Speak Truth to Power." One can hardly speak more directly to power than addressing the Presidential Administration of the United States. This past October, stu...
Usmani: Pakistan on the Brink? The Real Threat from Within
Znet Article, January, 05 2010
Adaner Usmani
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The real threat to Pakistan comes not from the Taliban but from the military and authoritarianism.
Siddiqi: Obama's surge and Pakistan
Znet Article, January, 03 2010
Shibil Siddiqi
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President Barack Obama recently announced an escalation of the war in Afghanistan, outlining plans to send an additional 30,000 troops.
Ali: The implications of partial justice
Znet Article, December, 22 2009
Mahir Ali
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On the day after an unprecedentedly broad bench of Pakistan’s Supreme Court pronounced its death sentence against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), the government in Islamabad felt obliged to dispel rumours of a coup in the making. Th...
Hoodbhoy: Is The Check In The Mail?
Znet Article, December, 17 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Hear ye, Counterpunch readers! The victory of Native Orientalists - the ones which the late Edward Said had warned us about - is nearly complete in Pakistan.
Hoodbhoy: Can India and Pakistan Fight Terror Together?
Commentary, December, 15 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Inseparable by geography, Pakistan and India are Siamese twins that have emerged together from the womb of history. For better or for worse, their futures will always remain inextricably tied together.
Kantar: International Law: The First Casualty of the Drone War
Znet Article, December, 11 2009
Max Kantar
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This report utilizes well-established principles of both treaty and customary international law as a measuring stick for attempting to determine the legal and moral legitimacy of the covert U.S. policy of using drones to attack targets in Pakistan...
Scahill: The Secret US War In Pakistan
Znet Article, December, 06 2009
Jeremy Scahill
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At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinat...
Ali: The Explosion We Ignore
Znet Article, November, 25 2009
Mahir Ali
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The explosive situation in which Pakistan finds itself, chiefly as a consequence of its own initiatives over recent decades, means that attention inevitably tends to be centred on Islamist militancy and political dysfunction. Various other aspects...
Engelhardt: Drone Race to a Known Future
Znet Article, November, 15 2009
Tom Engelhardt
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Why Military Dreams Fail -- and Why It Doesn't Matter
Hoodbhoy: The Saudi-isation of Pakistan
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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A stern, unyielding version of Islam is replacing the kinder, gentler Islam of the Sufis in Pakistan.
Akhtar: Turbulent Tribes
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Aasim sajjad Akhtar
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The Pakistani state has for the best part of these 62 years ensured that Waziristan remains a strategic enclave for the pursuit of regional geo-political objectives.
Ali: Farce in Kabul, Tragedy in Pakistan
Znet Article, October, 20 2009
Tariq Ali
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A few weeks ago the UN headman in Kabul, a woodenheaded Norwegian, decided that the recent Presidential elections were fine and Karzai was a legitimate ruler. His deputy, Peter Galbraith, the unofficial representative of the State Department, was ...
