Current deterioration in Pak-US relations has its roots in domestic US politics. President Obama is under intense political pressure in the run up to presidential elections on issues such as economy, health care reform and will have to face the public over his failure to bring home the troops he so famously promised and end [...]
A country of 180 million plus people, so skeptical of a country, that influences their lives so immensely. If your guess is Pakistan and the US, you are right on the money. No one is denying that there is a basis of such feelings, based on a troubled past. However life never completely dwells in [...]
Now that Osama was eliminated by US Navy seals inside Pakistan, some hard questions face India. The recent visit of Kiyani to Abbotobad, ISI Chief Pasha’s visit to USA to meet with Panetta (without being arrested in spite of Rana trial in Chicago) and of course Kiyani’s meeting in Bahrain with Admiral Mike Mullen and [...]
President Barack Obama has finally announced his long-awaited new US strategy on Afghanistan after extensive consultations with his advisers: some wanted to increase 30,000 additional troops so that they could concentrate their effort in the south and southeast, in the provinces that border Pakistan, while others advocated at concentrating on the strongholds from where the [...]
The situation in Afghanistan is turning from bad to worse. The last two months witnessed the deadliest attacks that killed record number of alien troops. The US role in Afghan elections, especially Washington’s drama in favour of Abdullah Abdullah to further pressurize puppet Afghan President Hamid Karzai was resented by a common man in the [...]
In my office hang photos of this writer with Pakistan’s last four leaders. Two of them - Zia ul Haq and Benazir Bhutto - were murdered. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted in a military coup led by photo number four, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who was deposed last year by Pakistan’s military.
Either leading Pakistan [...]
Finally one of the most awaited speeches has been made. I have heard President Obama’s Speech in which he announced the plans of U.S. regarding the troops in Afghanistan. Since this speech had been aired, it has become a reason to talk and a topic to discuss. According to New York Times; Leading Democratic and [...]
Home run? Boundary 6? Dazzled them! some of them? I submit that these are not the most appropriate metaphors. Let us begin by distinguishing between Obama the celebrity and Obama the statesman - something that we ourselves have difficulty doing. The celebrity realm has its own logic (more accurately, non-logic) that has to do with image [...]
Its been years I have listen to the noble intention, nearly all US Presidents and there teams had for Pakistan. This is the same feeling that I got just days earlier, when President Obama unleashed his AFPAK policy.
