By Saeed Qureshi
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The NATO attack on two Pakistani military check posts in Mehmand Tribal Agency on the Pak-Afghan border was presumably to lure Pakistan into retaliation for sparking a wider confrontation annihilating the bulk of the Pakistan army’s presence in the tribal regions adjoining Afghanistan.
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By Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan
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Would the condolences of NATO Chief, US secretaries of State and Defence and so many others, minimize the pains and sorrows of the grieved families, who lost their loved ones in NATO air attack on night 25/26 November. Similarly, a few words of sympathy with the Government of Pakistan by US and NATO officials would not restore the lost status of Pakistani sovereignty, integrity and national pride. Continue reading
By Dr Kamal Monnoo
In all honesty, the Article IV discussions of the Pak economic team with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) went quite well in Dubai last week. We saw an IMF that was much more accommodative of Pakistan’s needs and ground realities, and a Pak team that in addition to engaging the IMF took time out to listen to varying points of view from leading economists and businessmen. Continue reading
By Edward Girardet
When the West first intervened in Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, experienced aid coordinators, journalists, and diplomats had some simple advice: Don’t get carried away with wasteful military campaigns or a Sisyphean anti-narcotics drive. They contribute little to long-term peace. To help Afghanistan, focus instead on modest but doable development initiatives in the countryside, where nearly 80 percent of Afghans live.
Dr N Janardhan
It ain’t over till it’s over,” is an oft used line to qualify an unfinished sporting event that could go either way. The same is equally true of the economic and political events that have unfolded around the world during the last year, surprisingly starting with the Arab world.
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Dr Qaisar Rashid
Balochistan is suffering from a serious crisis of governance. There are two expressions of the Balochistan problem. First, the Baloch are being picked up and tortured, and their bullet-riddled bodies are being dumped. The Baloch believe that the intelligence agencies or the Frontier Corps (FC) is responsible. The second manifestation is that the FC is under attack and basic infrastructure such as gas pipelines and electricity connections are being destroyed. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has taken responsibility for these acts.
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Tanvir Ahmad Khan
They had known combat and proved their mettle. But that night they had no enemy of the state lurking anywhere near. When sudden, brutal death overwhelmed them, they did not know why a putative friend “had opened a barrage of ‘hell fire’, as he calls it gleefully”, on them. It is not an easy death to die; nor should it be glossed over glibly.
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Dr Muhammad Yaqub
Economists are notorious for their contradictory advice so much so that one chief executive of a developed country is reported to have requested the services of only a one-handed economic adviser. However, he did not realise that difference in advice usually reflects not difference in economic concepts, but in assumptions.
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Munir Akram
VIEWED through today’s political telescope, Afghanistan’s future appears as turbulent as it’s past, and ominous for Pakistan.
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Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
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“Some cynic might ask, why is it if we have invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, and are making incursions into Pakistan, that these other nations such as Russia could not, under any circumstances no matter what the reason, invade other nations? Continue reading
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