Asif Haroon Raja Before the attacks on Kabul on 13 September 2011 and murder of Burhanuddin Rabbani on 20 September by the Taliban, the US was counting on Pakistan for a breakthrough in talks with Haqqanis led by Sirajuddin. Some meetings between Sirajuddin and America Officials Signing Restoration of NATO Supplyn officials had been arranged by ISI in some Gulf States to arrive at a political settlement. B ...

By Imran Malik In a blatant display of overwhelming power and clout, the US forced Pakistan’s hand in the nerve wrecking and vital battle of wits for the Nato supply routes and by implication the future of its Afghan campaign. The US pressure tactics included a double pincer movement of sorts, comprising a strategic and an economic prong targeting Pakistan’s obvious vulnerabilities. The [caption id="attachm ...

Asif Haroon Raja  The might of US military-NATO got bogged down in the swamp of Afghanistan, rather than making corrections at its end, Pentagon and CIA made Pakistan a scapegoat and blamed it for all their faults. Finding no explanation to offer for their dismal performance despite enjoying all the strategic and technical advantages, the US after playing up extremist threat to the integrity of Pakistan and ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat Famous political thinkers agree that a number of internal factors, system of government, geographical location, economic output etc. play a key role in formulating the foreign policy of a country, while national interest has primary importance. But this thesis is quite opposite to Pakistan’s political and religious parties which have always criticised the external policy of the country ...

  In today’s date suicide bombing is a curse familiar to all and is being used to terrorize people psychologically. Suicide bombing first originated as a political tool in the 1980s,in 1982, radical elements of the Shiite resistance in southern Lebanon joined together in the Bekka Valley to form Hezbollah. After that the trend picked up popularity among many terrorist groups as a way to achieve their m ...

  Beenish Javed (a TV Reporter) & Nasir Ahmad Waqif, (an Afghan Journalist) It is encouraging to note that the saner voices in Afghanistan do recognize the efforts being made by Pakistan as sincere and towards making a long-term peace paradigm in the region. A senior official of Pakistan foreign office said that Pakistan was willing to facilitate peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan, but ...

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