The internal politics of the private TV channels is a strange story in itself. The most viewed channel GEO hosts some most popular journalists and the cheap battles and jealousy stories among these anchors and journalists are getting new hype because everyone wants to become number 1.
Saleem Safi and Hamid Mir have gained a new [...]
I was enthralled to read the statement of Afghan President. Let’s take his recent statements on their face values. The man is talking very sanely and very reasonably. While denouncing the hand of Pakistani agencies interfering in Afghanistan in light tone, the Afghan President is tilting towards Pakistan, even defying US in some cases publicly, [...]
When Hamid Karzai landed in New Delhi, India was expecting from him some real and bitter Pakistan bashing but to their horror Karzai called Pakistan his twin brother. That also amazed Pakistanis, because Afghan officials were blaming Pakistan and its ISI for the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, after US-Pakistan tension started over Haqqani Network.
If somebody [...]
I have always been an advocate of “winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people” argument. Brute military force, can win wars, but is never a recipe for long term peace and stability. Two wrongs do not make a right, and American policy in the region has only served to exacerbate the level of [...]
While the Obama administration is watching the battlefield in Afghanistan, hoping for a quick weakening of the Taliban, regional powers are ratcheting up tensions in and outside that country. Pakistan and Iran in particular want to ensure that by the time the United States is ready to talk to the Taliban, the region’s future will [...]
After the failure of high level talks between India and Pakistan over their long running disputes, both countries are now locked in an escalating proxy war in Afghanistan. If no solution is found to reconcile Pakistani and Indian interests in Afghanistan, the coming months might see stepped up terrorist attacks against Indians in Kabul and [...]
While America is pushing more and more troops in Afghanistan and its generals are admitting defeat, the local Afghan leaders like Hamid Karzai are rising upto the reality that the only way for the peace is by talking to the Taliban. It an open reality that America is not winning this war, civilian casualities are [...]
Consequent to August 20 Afghan elections made controversial by the powers to be, Afghans will be asked to re-cast their votes in a $200m runoff being arranged on 7 November. Though the Afghan Independent Election Commission had declared Mr. Karzai the winner in the last elections having bagged 54 percent of the votes cast yet, [...]
Afghanistan conducted yet another election on 20th August to elect a President for itself with lots of hopes for a better future tomorrow. Despite a lot of Taliban threats to the Afghan populace not to cast their votes or else they would face severe consequences, there were a considerable number of them who turned out [...]
With the country engaged in war, the electoral process in Afghanistan never looked open and valid in the eyes of Pakistani leaders. Still, a country without the requisite ingredients of democracy such as political parties or a universally accepted constitution cannot have credible electoral process. Pakistan does wish for political stability but the [...]
