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Ross: Obama Steps Up Killer Drone Raids Despite Deaths of Civilians
Znet Article, October, 19 2009
Sherwood Ross
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Since taking office, President Obama has sanctioned at least 41 Central Intelligence Agency(C.I.A.) drone strikes in Pakistan that have killed between 326 and 538 people, many of them, critics say, "innocent bystanders, including children," accord...
Cpd: We Call for the United States to End Its Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan!
Znet Article, October, 09 2009
Campaign for peace and democracy -- Cpd
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A Statement from the Campaign for Peace and Democracy calling for the withdrawal of US/NATO troops from Afghanistan and Pakistan
Barsamian: Whither Pakistan?
Zmag Article, October, 01 2009
David Barsamian
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An interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy, activist and physicist
Kolko: Escalation is futile in a war in which complexity defies might
Commentary, September, 24 2009
Gabriel Kolko
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The US scarcely knew what a complex disaster it was confronting when it went to war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. It will eventually - perhaps years from now - suffer the same fate as Alexander the Great, the British and the Soviet Union: def...
Ali: The march of the skeletons
Znet Article, September, 14 2009
Mahir Ali
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Going by the rate at which former operatives from a plethora of military and other agencies have been emerging from the woodwork and spilling the beans in Pakistan, it almost seems as if someone went around spiking their preferred beverages with t...
Hoodbhoy: India's Nuclear Fizzle - What Should Pakistan Do?
Commentary, September, 04 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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As is well known, a thermonuclear (or hydrogen) bomb is far more complex than the relatively simple fission weapon first tested by India in 1974 and by Pakistan in 1998. Advanced weapons needs fine-tuning to achieve their full destructiveness - Fr...
Walia: Military Aid or Raid: War on Terror Expands to Pakistan
Znet Article, August, 22 2009
Harsha Walia
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On the eve of the 62nd anniversary of India's and Pakistan's independence from British rule, Obama justified the war on Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak) by evoking Bush's mantra: “This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 ar...
Ali: Separated at Birth
Znet Article, August, 12 2009
Mahir Ali
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THE probable decapitation of a leading faction of the Pakistani Taliban could be considered an auspicious augury in the run-up to the nation's Independence Day on Friday, although the delay obtaining confirmation of Baitullah Mehsud's demise also ...
Mian: Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink
Znet Article, August, 06 2009
Zia Mian
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The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye t...
Cole: Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not!
Znet Article, July, 29 2009
Juan Cole
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Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what is now Pakistan have managed to throw a series of frights into distant Western capitals for more than a century. That's certainly one for the reco...
Ali: Skirmishes in the battle for Pakistan
Znet Article, July, 21 2009
Mahir Ali
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EVEN a tentative sigh of relief would probably be premature, but the trickle of refugees back to their towns and villages in Swat is a hopeful sign. The exodus was rapid; the return, inevitably, is much slower. And it ought not to be misconstrued ...
Hoodbhoy: Preventing A Taliban Victory
Commentary, June, 21 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Now that the army has turned serious, Baitullah Mehsud cannot expect to stroll down Constitution Avenue any time soon, nor hope to sit in the presidency. A few thousand mountain barbarians, even if trained by Al Qaeda's best, cannot possibly seize...
Engelhardt: The Ir-Af-Pak War
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
Tom Engelhardt
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Obama lets loose the predators
Porter: CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
Gareth Porter
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Intelligence analysts have been unable to obtain either the list of military targets of the drone strikes or the actual results in terms of al Qaeda or civilians killed, according to a Washington source familiar with internal discussion of the dro...
Kelly: Down and Out in Shah Mansoor
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Kathy Kelly
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In Pakistan's Swabi district, a bumpy road leads to Shah Mansoor, a small village surrounded by farmland. Just outside the village, uniform size tents are set up in hundreds of rows.
Hoodbhoy: Whither Pakistan? A five-year forecast
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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First, the bottom line: Pakistan will not break up; there will not be another military coup; the Taliban will not seize the presidency; Pakistan's nuclear weapons will not go astray; and the Islamic sharia will not become the law of the land.
Smith: Behind the nightmare in Swat
Znet Article, May, 25 2009
Ashley Smith
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More than 1 million people have fled the Swat region of Pakistan in one of the worst humanitarian crises since the slaughter in Rwanda during the mid-1990s.
Engelhardt: Going for Broke
Znet Article, May, 21 2009
Tom Engelhardt
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Af-Pak war is heading straight into what, in the Vietnam era, was known as "the big muddy."
Sulehria: "War on terror" causes mass exodus in Swat
Znet Article, May, 20 2009
Farooq Sulehria
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The longer the USA stays in Afghanistan, the longer the Taliban's defeat will be delayed and the suffering of the poor masses prolonged.
Sinclair: US drone attacks in Pakistan
Znet Article, May, 18 2009
Ian Sinclair
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Two weeks after Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States, former Clinton administration official David Rothkopf made the shrewd observation that the new leader's cabinet choices adhered closely to "the violin model: you hol...
