For the current “great game” in Southern Asia, Pakistan is central to the region’s future stability. Created in 1947, out of predominantly Muslim areas of the old Indian Raj, it has never fully achieved a stable political system. …
Read Original Story: Powder Keg Chronicles: The real trouble, Pakistan – The Daily Maverick
The positive momentum generated by US Secretary of State HillaryClinton’s visit has to be sustained and enhanced to take it to its logical end of placing the Pakistan-US relationship on a mature and mutually beneficial basis. …
Read Original Story: Beyond the Clinton visit – The News International
Developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan will figure prominently when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the Obama White House on November 24. The Obama Administration has handled events related to the recent re-election of Mr Hamid Karzai as …
Read Original Story: India just can't read Pakistan – Daily Pioneer
After three days of America-bashing that Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, endured during her recent visit she must have carried back interesting baggage – some realistic and troubling assessments about how Pakistanis look upon …
Read Original Story: It Is Your War Not Ours, Ms. Clinton – Axis of Logic
KABUL, Afghanistan – The big story here, underreported so far, is the emergence of coordinated American and Afghan efforts to bring Taliban leaders and fighters in from the cold. When Afghan President Hamid Karzai is inaugurated again …
Read Original Story: Worldview: Kabul, Taliban are talking – Philadelphia Inquirer
As US President Barack Obama makes up his mind on comitting more troops to Afghanistan, the search for analogies continues. Clearly, Afghanistan cannot be compared with Vietnam or Iraq beyond a point. The history, geography, the culture and the …
Read Original Story: Afghanistan: neither Vietnam nor Iraq, but closer home perhaps – Reuters Blogs (blog)
As PresidentObama contemplates a new strategy in Afghanistan, Washington is obsessed with whether the best analogy to the conflict lies in Vietnam or Iraq, with attendant and obvious implications for policy. Of course, Afghanistan has …
Read Original Story: Afghanistan is neither Vietnam nor Iraq – Foreign Policy
By Terry Liston, Special to the sunnovember 11, 2009 With Hamid Karzai’s default victory in the presidential election out of the way, the West can turn its attention to a new military approach in Afghanistan. US President Barack Obama seems hesitant to …
Read Original Story: How to achieve peace in Afghanistan – Vancouver Sun
Casualties among foreign and Afghan troops are again rising, with the rancour over the fraud-marred presidential elections still in the air. Taliban statements are ever more gleeful – hardly surprising when by some assessments they now …
Read Original Story: Would Taliban fighters switch sides? – BBC News
By Arun Kumar Washington: Describing the "safe haven" that Al Qaeda has found in Pakistan as "very troubling", US Secretary of State HillaryClinton says the terror group is engaged with the Pakistani Taliban in threatening the state of Pakistan. …
Read Original Story: Haven for al Qaeda in Pakistan `very troubling': Clinton – SamayLive
