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Archive for January, 2008
New Report on Afghanistan Calls for Some Big Changes
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations | 1 Comment »
The Afghanistan Study Group of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, one of the sponsors of the Iraq Study Group, issued a report yesterday recommending several changes in ... Read more..Baitullah Mehsud’s First Television Interview
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Ahmad Zaidan, Al Jazeera, Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban Movement of Pakistan, Tehreek-e Taliban-e Pakistan | No Comments »
Ahmad Zaidan, al-Jazeera's Islamabad bureau chief, interviewed Baitullah Mehsud in December. The video, provided above, was aired on the station a few days ago. It's ... Read more..The PML-Q’s Negative Campaigning
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in Ijaz ul-Haq, Political Advertising, Shujaat Hussain, Zia ul-Haq | 2 Comments »
The back page of today's Khabrain, a leading Pakistan daily, features an interesting political advertisement from Musharraf's faction of the Muslim League party (PML-Q). [Topi tip: Ali] The ad paints ... Read more..Filling in the Blanks: Nat_____ Recon_________
Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Ashfaq Kayani, Asif Zardari, Fazlur Rahman, Hamid Mir, Imran Khan, Javaid Laghari, Kashif Abbasi, Malik Qayyum, National Reconciliation, Nawaz Sharif, Niaz Ahmed, Pervez Musharraf, Shahbaz Sharif, Shahid Masood, Sherry Rehman | 4 Comments »
Let's Continue Our Conversation...in London Shahbaz Sharif, president of the Muslim League-Nawaz, tells BBC Urdu that "If Musharraf becomes neutral and promises to hold the polls in a free and fair ... Read more..Thursday Round-Up: National Reconciliation; Splitting the Taliban; Army Defends Atta; Aitzaz’s Back
Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in Aitzaz Ahsan, Ali Awadh Asseri, Ashfaq Kayani, Baitullah Mehsud, Fazlur Rahman, Maulana Fazlullah, National Reconciliation, Nawaz Sharif, Niaz Ahmed, Pakistan Army, Shahbaz Sharif, Taliban, Terror Attacks | 3 Comments »
Pakistan continues along a mixed, though largely negative trajectory as the spate of urban suicide bombing continues and insurgents make bold moves in South Waziristan, while the army strengthens ... Read more..The Pakistani Army Returns to Dhaka
Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Pakistan Army | No Comments »
Read more..Breaking News: Bomb Blast in Karachi
Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Karachi, Terror Attacks | 1 Comment »
Earlier this evening, a bomb blast struck Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, in the vicinity of Gul Ahmed Chowrangi in the Quaidabad area. Ten individuals have been killed and over ... Read more..Beyond Bhutto: Pakistan Two Weeks After the Assassination
Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in Ashfaq Kayani, Baitullah Mehsud, Pervez Musharraf | 2 Comments »
Pakistan has moved forward in the two weeks since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, but toward what exactly remains unclear. The country has displayed a capacity to sustain high-levels ... Read more..Terror in Lahore: The Managed Chaos Continues
Thursday, January 10th, 2008 Posted in Lahore, Terror Attacks | 3 Comments »
Earlier this afternoon local time, a suicide bomber attacked a group of police gathered near Lahore's High Court, the scene of renewed protests by Pakistan's lawyers' movement. The attack ... Read more..The Fazl Factor
Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in Fazlur Rahman, North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) | 2 Comments »
Nicholas Schmidle's article in this week's New York Times Magazine on the "Next-Gen Taliban" is one of the most solid stories in recent years on Pakistan's challenges in its northwest ... Read more..