A summit of sub-Saharan African leaders who met in Harare on Monday could not break the impasse in that country's political negotiations. If not exactly an example of quiet diplomacy, the summit did not either take the form of carrying a big stick with which to prod President Robert Mugabe to concede on some of […]
Today I would like to go over recent developments in the conflict spanning the Afghan-Pakistan border as the conflict's many sides (NATO, Afghans, Taliban, Pakistan military, Al Qaeda, and local tribes) have all recently been in the news for various reasons: The Bush administration has authorized even greater use of missile/drone attacks inside of Pakistan, […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan ‚ An American drone aircraft hit a militant compound in South Waziristan on Sunday night, killing 20 people, including two important local Taliban commanders known for their attacks against American soldiers in Afghanistan, a senior government official and a local resident said Monday. One of the dead commanders, Eida Khan, was wanted by […]
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has failed to execute a Rs 47 billion Ghazi Brotha Water Supply project to meet water requirements of the city, sources said. They said the city would face severe water shortage by the end of next year if work on the project was not started during current fiscal year. Currently, […]
Pete Ajemian, Middle East Media blogger for FPA, has a post up debriefing Nasrallah's denial of this connection.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan ‚ An American drone aircraft hit a militant compound in South Waziristan on Sunday night, killing 20 people, including two important local Taliban commanders known for their attacks against American soldiers in Afghanistan, a senior government official and a local resident said Monday. One of the dead commanders, Eida Khan, was wanted by […]
This weekend Kuwait's government bailed out the country's second largest bank , Gulf Bank, guaranteeing all its deposits. (I’d be interested to know why this article from the Kuwait Times puts the word “losses” in scare quotes). Yesterday, Kuwaiti traders staged their second walk out of the past week (they walked out Thursday as well; […]
After a two years break the leaders of Future Movement and Hizballah met on Sunday. The press learned about the meeting on Monday. A joint statement said that both leaders stressed national unity, while reiterating their common position regarding peace as well as the need to take all necessary measures to prevent internal tensions and […]
WASHINGTON: The next US president must revamp policy toward Pakistan, mixing deft diplomacy, security support and economic aid to help Islamabad defeat a grave threat from extremists, an experts’ report said on Thursday. Pakistan Policy Working Group, a bipartisan group of a about a dozen experts on US-Pakistan relations, said the South-Asian country of 160 […]
KARACHI: A 17-year-old village girl was falsely accused of immorality and had dogs set on her as a punishment before she was shot dead, the girl's parents said on Monday. Gul Sher, father of the girl, Tasleem Solangi, demanded justice for the killing of his daughter after he said a council in their village in […]
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: US attacks in tribal areas are harming the government's efforts to isolate extremists and mobilise people against militancy, according to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Addressing a press conference after returning from Beijing on Sunday, the prime minister criticised the Inspector-General of the Frontier Corps for saying that the military operation in […]
PESHAWAR: Analysts and intellectuals believe that dialogue is the only way to stem militancy in the Tribal Areas, provided those responsible for the unrest surrender and guarantee they will not challenge the writ of the government. They also believe that the return of peace depends on the sincerity of both sides , the Taliban as […]
ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 – Political and ethnic Pashtun tribal leaders from Afghanistan and Pakistan began a two-day meeting on Monday to find ways to end surging militant violence including the possibility of opening talks with the Taliban. The meeting, dubbed a Pakistan-Afghanistan "Jirgagai", or mini-jirga, is a follow-up to a grand assembly in Kabul last […]
Ever since the Soviet Union's collapse, the region of Central Asia, flush with newly minted states, has struggled to come up with a regional water arrangement to suit all those involved. In recent weeks, the region's governmental leaders have been working on a short-term water sharing deal, and it now appears their work has come […]
WASHINGTON ‚ The White House has backed away from using American commandos for further ground raids into Pakistan after furious complaints from its government, relying instead on an intensifying campaign of airstrikes by the Central Intelligence Agency against militants in the Pakistani mountains. According to American and Pakistani officials, attacks by remotely piloted Predator aircraft […]