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Friends Across Frontiers R K PACHAURI, 29 January 2010, 12:00pm ISTT Pakistan is no longer characterised by anti-India fanatics and, despite the widespread problem of terrorism (which is also becoming a major threat for Pakistanis themselves) and the history of enmity between our two...

Pakistan’s various governments and the approximate periods of their rule Below, without comment a list of Pakistan’s various governments and the approximate periods of their rule, or misrule if you will. ‘Caretaker’ governments or those such as Mr Mohammad Khan Junejo’s, Mr Zafarullah...

Pakistan's Rebuff Over New Offensives Rankles U.S. Monday, January 25, 2010 By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER, The New York Times WASHINGTON -- The Pakistani Army's announcement last week that it planned no new offensive against militants for as long as a year has deeply frustrated...

Pakistani government, military wary of U.S. overtures By Pamela Constable Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, January 25, 2010 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- Despite a string of high-profile visits designed to reassure Pakistan of Washington's commitment, U.S. officials have failed to win...

Pakistan's former spymaster says Taliban leader is ready to talk By SAEED SHAH AND JONATHAN S. LANDAY McClatchy Newspapers RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- The U.S. must negotiate a political settlement to the Afghanistan war directly with Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar because any bid...

Taliban ‘counterinsurgency’ aims to win hearts Code of conduct bans burning schools, cutting off ears, lips, tongues By Alissa J. Rubin Thurs., Jan. 21, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have embarked on a sophisticated information war, using modern media tools as well as some...

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Lessons we must learn Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Rahimullah Yusufzai There are lessons to be learnt from the recent suicide bombing at the secret CIA station in Afghanistan's Khost province bordering Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region. A Jordanian medical doctor of Palestinian...

An interesting article: Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons By JOHN MARKOFF Published: October 26, 2009 Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent...

Sydney debacle * The PCB needs to think straight now and take ruthless decisions to rid Pakistan cricket of impurities. Its time to revitalise a flagging club system, make selection transparent especially at the grassroots level, assemble a lean and intense first class format based on...

Pakistan cricket team – a psychological wreck By Col (r) Rafi Nasim It is a matter of great concern for the whole nation that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), headed by an incompetent former Test cricketer Ijaz Butt, has turned our cricket team into more of a psychological wreck. After...

US-Pakistan bickering gets ugly as ISI fingers American diplomats WASHINGTON: The wheels seem to be coming off US-Pakistan relations with the once close allies squabbling publicly even as Islamabad is whipping up hysteria over the so-called Indian threats and American machinations to weasel...

Testing times for the army Monday, January 04, 2010 Brig (r) A R Siddiqi Yet again the army finds itself caught between the devil of a mushrooming tribal insurgency and the deep blue sea of palace “conspiracies.” The president, in his fiery oration on Dec 27 from Garhi Khuda Baksh all...

People to people verdict: Peace is the answer January 2010, 12:05pm aman ki asha About two-thirds of those polled in India and almost three-fourths of those in Pakistan said they desire a peaceful relationship between the two countries. Only a tiny minority, 17% in India and 8% in...

Swat diary: 'A new beginning' Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced as a result of the Pakistani military operation again the Taliban in the Swat region of north-west Pakistan in 2009. Munir (not his real name), an administrator in Swat, reflects on a difficult year but is...

Army to seek 20 SuperCobra helicopters from US By Amin Ahmed Thursday, 31 Dec, 2009 Pakistan currently has 32 Cobra attack helicopters ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army is likely to seek US Foreign Military Financing (FMF) to acquire 20 SuperCobra helicopters to reinforce its fleet of...

AEW&C systems Thursday, 31 Dec, 2009 The technology is inferior to the American Awacs long denied to Pakistan. THE induction of the first ‘high-tech’ aerial surveillance system into the Pakistan Air Force has been hailed as a great leap forward for the country’s defences. But...

Is the US Military ‘Exhausted’? Posted on December 27, 2009 by Moin Ansari The call for over 30,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan is a travesty for the people of that country who have already suffered eight brutal years of occupation. It is also a harsh blow to the US...

Brainwashed boy bomber flees Taliban In the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, a 14-year-old boy ‘came to’ just before pulling the pin on his suicide jacket Daud Khattak in Bajaur and Nicola Smith The Sunday Times December 27, 2009 USMAN GHANI was a 14-year-old...