It’s amazingly strange as how American officials become so changed in New Delhi and how they change color as soon as they land in Islamabad. First Richard Holbrooke and now Hillary Clinton have made two recent examples of this attitude.
The visiting United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday said here that there’s a real [...]
Without indulging in any of the conspiracies theories, I openly join the many tongues wagging at the meeting held between the US Special Envoy on Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke with Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
Nation stands appalled. This is the same Holbrooke, who and his predecessors were ill at ease with even [...]
For the past couple of months or so, a sort of fire is being fanned against the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). The United States media and its officials are repeatedly accusing the ISI of supporting the Taliban. Pakistan denied the allegations at every forum and demanded proofs, but US failed to provide any proof. ISI [...]
President Obama’s special envoy Richard Holbrooke was here in his colony for three nights in the previous week and though we were told by Herr Rehman Malik that Richard was here to get the tutorial about the happenings in Afghanistan and Pakistan and their role and tasks in war on terror, no one got decevied [...]
You have to hand it to our rulers: In times of grave crises, they can only offer black comic relief with a heavy cost to the nation. From the bizarre declarations of “technical fault” to the Indian air intrusions into Pakistan and the overall clumsy handling of the Mumbai terrorist saga; to the droning chorus [...]
“It’s going to be a long, difficult struggle. . . . In my view, it’s going to be much tougher than Iraq.” This is what Richard C. Holbrooke, the State Department’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan had to say before coming over to the most toughest and troubled ally of United States in its [...]
Two drones fired on the same day soon after Obama’s swearing in have made the new US administration’s intentions towards Pakistan clear – there will be no respect for international law in this part of the world. This is the historic duality (recall the Monroe Doctrine) that prevails in the very foundations of the much-touted [...]
he newly-appointed US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke is not new to the region. But he remained here three decades ago and one would think that he is out of touch of the issues related to the South Asia. But his recent press briefings, media statements and the articles in various journals [...]
As America is poised to change itself under the new and dynamic leadership of Barack H. Obama, the only superpower should also understand that they cannot change themselves in the vacuum. Already people are questioning the rationale behind the closing down of Gitmo bay and barring CIA from having interrogation cells abroad.
Though these measures are [...]
