Monthly Archives: September 2011

How Pakistan should Deal with America

By Saeed Qureshi
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There is the least need and rationale for antagonizing the United States which in her overflowing frustration due to failure in Afghan war may turn her cannons towards Pakistan. Continue reading

No need to reset the reset

Matthew Rojansky

Russia watchers in the West cannot be surprised that Vladimir Putin is on his way back to the Russian presidency. Dmitri Medvedev was always his protege, and there was no doubt that major decisions could not be made without his approval. Continue reading

Dangerous game at the UN

John V. Whitbeck

The number of UN member states extending diplomatic recognition to the State of Palestine has now risen to 131, leaving only 62 UN member states on the wrong side of history and humanity. Continue reading

Blasphemy, blasphemy everywhere

Gulmina Bilal Ahmad

The small, sleepy and largely unknown town of Havelian has made its way into the news these days due to the alleged incident of blasphemy that has stirred the town’s social fabric and created a rift between the Muslims and Christians settled in the area. Continue reading

War euphoria

Harris Khalique

The televangelists, holy entertainers and the know-it-all jugglers of news and views are having a field day in Pakistan. What else would sell better than the war rhetoric in the living rooms of the middleclass urban and semi-urban populations? Continue reading

The fog of war

Mehreen Zahra-Malik

Fog tends to make things appear grotesque, larger and often uglier than they really are. Trying to understand the Pakistan-US equation right now is like driving through a thick fog with the night casting ghostlike shadows on the road ahead. You can only really see as far as your headlights but you know you still have to make the whole trip anyway.
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Endgame in Afghanistan

By Khalid Aziz

THE current tensions in Pakistan-US ties have convinced many Pakistanis that the US will undertake an operation in North Waziristan thus breaching Pakistani sovereignty.
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Who benefits from US aid?

By S. Akbar Zaid

IT is not much of an exaggeration to state that Pakistan has always been an aid-dependent country. Estimates suggest that the gross disbursement of overseas development assistance to Pakistan from 1960 to 2002 (in 2001 prices) was $73.1bn, including bilateral and multilateral sources.
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Have Your Say: Why would Pakistan do it?

Alya Alvi, Rawalpindi

One wonders if Pakistan government and its military establishment know that the result of any Pakistan- Continue reading

The History of the Haqqanis

by SHAUKAT QADIR

When the US suffers a defeat in Afghanistan, it will need another scapegoat. Continue reading