Wall Street Journal How Pakistan Is Countering the Taliban The pacification model that worked in Iraq can work in the Swat Valley. By HUSAIN HAQQANI The specter of extremist Taliban taking over a nuclear-armed Pakistan is not only a gross exaggeration, it could also lead to misguided policy prescriptions from Pakistan’s allies, including our friends [...]
When one authority replaces another, it dismantles the old order and establishes a new one. This is something which the jargon intellectuals on our media are overseeing day-in day-out while reviewing the recent developments in our country and the region. When British Order collapsed, it was replaced by no definitive order but a conflict of [...]
WITH districts around Swat seemingly falling like ninepins, the state has been shockingly ambivalent about it plans to restore its writ in northern Pakistan. But yesterday it appeared that the Pakistan Army has finally awoken from its slumber. The message from the chief himself, Gen Kayani: the militants will not be allowed to run amok [...]
Ever since the video of Taliban’s brutal flogging of a 17-year old girl appeared on youtube and media, the spin doctors of fundos in their hallmark way are out to divert attention from the key issue. Some were saying it’s wrong because it was not the State which authorized this punishment, others were questioning the [...]
Ever since the video of Taliban’s brutal flogging of a 17-year old girl appeared on youtube and media, the spin doctors of fundos in their hallmark way are out to divert attention from the key issue. Some were saying it’s wrong because it was not the State which authorized this punishment, others were questioning the [...]
WOLF BLITZER: To our viewers, you’re in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now: shock and sadness at the apparent suicide of a top Freddie Mac executive. David Kellermann was acting chief financial officer of the troubled mortgage giant. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now says she knew her fellow California congresswoman, Jane Harman, had been caught in [...]
Sunday, April 12, 2009 Daily Times The pressure on President Asif Zardari to sign the Nizam-e Adl Regulation in the Malakand Division is growing as more and more opinion writers and TV discussants bitterly accuse him of having sabotaged the “peace” in Swat. After the signatory to the “peace agreement”, Sufi Muhammad, walked out of [...]
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2009 (AFP) -The Pakistani and Afghan ambassadors here warned Thursday a US anti-terror escalation unveiled by President Barack Obama risked proving insufficient to break the back of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Both envoys called on the United States and its allies to provide more cash and military tools to defeat terrorism on [...]
Media: Wall Street Journal Byline: Matthew Kaminski Date: 10 April 2009 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123940326797109645.html America’s regional envoy says Pakistan’s tribal areas are the problem. His face tense and unsmiling, a young man from a village in Pakistan’s western tribal areas tells his story, mixing English, Pashto and Urdu. He is the only male in his clan to [...]
The National Salman Masoodm, Foreign Correspondent Last Updated: April 08. 2009 8:30AM UAE / April 8. 2009 4:30AM GMT http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090408/FOREIGN/871476693/1002 ISLAMABAD // The video of a teenage girl being whipped in public by the Pakistani Taliban has riveted the country and has highlighted an ideologically strained and divided society faced with the growing threats of [...]