The Pakistani Spectator

Right at the time, when the ministers and advisors are having a ball in the capital and issuing ecstatic statements regarding the unprecedented success in Washington DC, a drone has hit once again in Pakistan.
‘Strategic dialogue’ with Pakistan is the new buzzword in the town. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the [...]

When President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak?
U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for a security force ratio of 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every [...]