by Fatemeh Aman IPS May 22 2013 Following on Nawaz Sharif's victory in the May 11 national elections in Pakistan, many analysts are indicating cautious optimism on the prospect that the new prime minister can strengthen bilateral relations with the country's neighbours, particularly India.
KU 4.5.2011 Pakistanin tärkeimpiin kuuluva sotakoulu, Kakulin sotilasakatemia, sijaitsee vain 800 metrin päässä Osama bin Ladenin piilopaikaksi osoittautuneesta talosta. WikiLeaksin sähkeistä käy ilmi, että Yhdysvaltain sotilaskouluttajat olivat lokakuuss
Gareth Porter, Asia Times 5 May 2011. The OIC is a moderate, Saudi-based organization representing all Islamic countries. A trial of Bin Laden by judges from OIC member countries might have dealt a more serious blow to al-Qaeda's Islamic credentials than
Conan Hallinan: "....an alternative scenario that not only avoids magical thinking about what choppers can do, but better fits the politics of the moment: that Pakistan’s Directorate of Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) knew where Bin Laden was and fingere
"11th May 1998 was the day the Government of India, constituted of a motley crowd of about two dozen political parties led by the “Hindu” nationalist BJP, carried out, as per its official declaration, three nuclear explosions as a deliberate act of milita
Not many U.S. officials care to publicly discuss worries about the Pakistani nuclear arsenal's security against a potential terrorist operation."The less that is said publicly, the better," former Bush White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley
"A fully functioning Gwadar port would be the most strategically devastating ‘pearl’ in China’s chain of naval bases. [...] Pakistan would, by going forward with its Sino-dependant long-term economic plans, become intricately bound to maintaining Chinese
Conn Hallinan: "Drones are a high-tech solution to a deeply complex political problem. The longer they stalk the skies over Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, the more difficult those political problems become. It is time to stop bombing and start talking."
Paul Jay-- Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began their experience in Afghanistan when they were the first American journalists to acquire permission to enter behind Soviet lines in 1981 for CBS News and produced a documentary
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - "In Pakistan, the common people have started feeling the shattering of state organisation. They feel that probably they are living in a stateless society, for the state has failed to deliver the promised