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We Dont Trust You Osama and Obama

By Maria Sultan • Jan 9th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Al Qaeda spokesperson has claimed in a recently released video message that the recent flurry of suicide attacks in Pakistan is being managed by the United States’s intelligence agencies.
If the Al Qaeda is so concerned about the Pakistanis then why don’t in the hell they just lay off terrorism and start negotiations with the world? [...]



Pakistan-US Relations, Reality or Fiction

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Dec 25th, 2009 • Category: Features


South Asia’s `Tragedy of Errors’

By Ibn-e-Rehmat • Dec 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Any political analysis on Indo-Pakistan relations is like zodiac horoscope, most o which is prediction and the rest is prejudice. Within these limits, we can learn enough from the chain of events, to respect or share one another’s delusions. On the other hand, when Europeans study Indo-Pakistan reviews, they smile at our follies, for our [...]



Figure 8s On Thin Ice

By Prof. Michael Brenner • Dec 24th, 2009 • Category: Features

Trying to discern in Obama’s address at Oslo the contours of a coherent foreign policy is likely to prove futile. For the elucidation of a strategic design was not the purpose. The aim was political – in two senses. The first, primary consideration was to create favorable impressions among the American public - especially the [...]



Mercenaries and Assassins: The Real Face of Obama’s “Good War”

By Isha Khan • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama administration.
Citing former employees of the firm and US intelligence agents, the New York Times reported Friday that Blackwater gunmen, [...]



US New Strategy — An Analysis

By Guest Blogger • Dec 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Finally, the much awaited Afghan Strategy was unfurled by President Obama in a speech delivered at the United States Military Academy on 1st December 2009. In the back drop of former President George Bush’s call to arms post 9/11, Obama’s wartime address sounded like an endgame rather than a striking escalation of the US presence [...]



Obama Prepares Pyre

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Dec 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

I am shocked at the guys who have nominated and given away Nobel peace prize to the US president Barack Obama. Even Americans who voted for change are ill at ease and weeping at the time when they voted for the African American presidential candidate.
The more the things change, the more they remain same.
America is [...]



Hatred Volcano Aganist US

By Sher Ali • Dec 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There are strong anti-US sentiments in this region and this is because of US policy and its role in this region since the Russian invasion in Afghanistan. And Now America is carrying on the invasion. Fuelling anger are regular US missile strikes targeting Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan’s northwest. US drone attacks have killed around [...]



Obama’s Conflict-ridden Afghan Plan

By Guest Blogger • Dec 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

According to a recent US Government Accountability Office audit report, nearly 13,000 attacks were recorded in Afghanistan between January and the end of August 2009. There was an average of 100 attacks a day on international forces, Afghan security forces and ordinary civilians, which makes the figure 2.5 times higher this year than that of [...]



Qutting Afghanistan – Strategy Sans Strategems Needed

By Guest Blogger • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The Obama Administration in the United States is currently engaged in rethinking and formulating a fresh Afghan strategy aimed at securing an exit from Afghanistan without loss of face and with at least a modicum of dignity and honour. As far as meeting the projected requirement of his top commander’s recommendation for induction of another [...]