Archive for the ‘Swat Offensive’ Category
Army of Frankensteins
At least 40 people were killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi yesterday. Maybe because the attack targeted Muslim worshippers gathered for what is in the Islamic cultural of the subcontinent the week’s most important namaz many reacted by declaring that this CANNOT have been done by Pakistanis. For whatever reason, it is increasingly the […]
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Tags: 9/11, fidayeen, India, Israel, Pakistan army, Pakistan mosque blast, Rawalpindi attack, Rawalpindi blast, suicide attack, Taliban, US
Proxy Wars
[picapp align=”none” wrap=”false” link=”term=US+forces+afghanistan+border&iid=3005760″ src=”7/a/b/8/US_And_Afghan_7188.jpg?adImageId=7695196&imageId=3005760″ width=”500″ height=”334″ /] The director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta has been in Pakistan. He met President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Chief of Army Staff, Ashfaq Kayani and ISI head, Ahmed Shuja Pasha. According to the Daily Times, ‘Panetta praised the Pakistan […]
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Tags: Afghan Taliban, Afghan Taliban Shura, Afghanistan, AfPak, Karachi, Leon Panetta, Mullah omar, NATO, Obama, Pakistan, Taliban, United States, US, Waziristan
Richard Holbrooke was in Pakistan for the second time this month, and while he was on his way to Destination Kabul for the presidential elections, the visit was by no means a mere pit stop. The United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has been the topic of a great deal of discussion. Because […]
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Tags: Baitullah mehsud, Drone attacks, Holbrooke, Pakistan