Should Pakistan Trust Karzai? Hamid Karzai is walking on a tight rope. Ever grateful to Washington for getting the prized post of president of Afghanistan, he has been pursuing American dictates faithfully. He agreed to give all the major portfolios to non-Pashtun Northern Alliance members in his government and to sideline his own Pashtun community [...]
India-US relationship which has strengthened rapidly after the disintegration of the Soviet Union is, in fact, based upon mutual hypocrisy. Overtly, both the countries are taking steps to further stabilise their ties through strategic dialogue which were held in the first week of June this year, but covertly they are fulfilling their self-interests at the [...]
A report compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has ranked India on the top for consumption of heroin among the South Asian nations. According to the report, India consumed 17 metric tonnes (mt) of heroin in 2008 while the current consumption is estimated in the range of 65-70mt.
The defeat of USSR in Afghanistan and its subsequent disintegration is attributed to inaptness of “communism” as an ideology vis-à-vis “Western Liberal Democracy”. This notion has been so strong that Francis Fukuyama in his book “The End of History and the Last Man” published in 1992 forwarded the thesis that the end of cold war [...]
President Obama has already committed that US troops will start leaving Afghanistan by mid 2011. This decision was announced to pacify the growing domestic disapproval for Afghan war and to protect recession ridden US economy from further decline. Although military leaders have repeatedly said that the withdrawal time frame is tentative and US forces will [...]
The publication of a controversial report by the London School of Economics that accuses the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of having complicity with the Afghan Taliban, should be viewed vis-à-vis ongoing tussle between all the players to secure “strategic influence” in the post-exit Afghanistan. The worldwide recognition of Pakistan’s successful counter-insurgency operations in Swat and South [...]
While Pakistan is ranked world’s fifth most unstable country, in the report released by the US State Department’s Global Peace Index (GPI), on June 9, 2010, there are reasons of being an insecure country – ongoing security-related concerns contribute to its low rating at 145 on a list of 149 countries. In a psychological sense, [...]
Conducted among much diplomatic flourish and hyperbole, the first ever cabinet level Indo-US strategic dialogue co-chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Indian Minister for External Affairs SM Krishna, , may have come as a dampener for Indian ambitions, seeking a free run for India’s unbridled ascendance in the South Asian Region. Krishna [...]
Facing a staggering crunch of energy shortage, the reported Pakistan China Deal for provision of two Reactors [Chasma3&4] for the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant is very reassuring. But will the deal go through has become a knotty issue; thanks to the duplicitous double standards of the USA and the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG). The matter [...]
By Robert Singer Who Should we Trust to Tell us the Truth? A critical look at the information (disinformation) agents in the 21st century. [Author note: This is the first in a series of exposes that are required for me to tell the story behind the story behind the story of the BP Gulf Oil [...]
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