Pakistan News

It may be fake or fictitious but the 62 years sordid history of Pakistan is beautifully summed up in a very coherent but abridged form. The actual situation on the ground is truly depicted in this [no authentic source ]“Official Diplomatic Report”….

End 2010 summary analysis on Pakistan is being forwarded. The detailed
report is being sent separately by diplomatic pouch. The Government of India (GOI) strategic planning directive for Pakistan of 2000 clearly states our aim; to undermine the Pakistan Sate internally and externally with the intent to weaken it to such an extent, where it does not pose any further threat to GOI regional goals. With this in mind we have executed a cohesive plan to internally disrupt the country and to undermine  it on all international forums both overtly and covertly.

 From: Sharat Sabharwal
 To: Ministry of Foreign Affairs New Delhi, India

 I am pleased to announce the Sate of the Union of Pakistan at the end of 2010, is currently most conducive for the furtherance of our goals. Our  efforts over the last sixty-three years seem to be coming to fruition. The  country has never been more polarized, lacking in leadership and  economically weakened. We anticipate that the time is nearing when we will  be able to achieve our strategic goals without use of overt military force. 

 This will be the highest tribute to the teachings of ‘Chankian’ philosophy,  which we have so assiduously pursued. Pakistan was created ostensibly in areas where Muslims were in majority. From its inception there was a divergence of goals resulting in a clear  division. This dichotomy has persisted and has taken a institutional form. continue

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The Islamabad station chief of the Central Intelligence Agency hastily departed from Pakistan on Thursday after his cover was blown through a suspected deliberate leak by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence.

Jonathan Banks was identified as the head of the CIA’s Pakistan office, in a lawsuit filed against the United States’ secretive spy agency by a resident of North Waziristan. The resident, Kareem Khan, was said to have filed the case against the CIA and Mr. Banks for their role in organising drone strikes that killed his son and brother. continue

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ASMA MUJAHID - The Nation Pakistan

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a joint press conference with the visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accused Pakistan of trying to solve political issues in the guise of terrorism, and stated that Pakistan will have to change its policies. She said that it will be made clear to Pakistan that terror is not a means to an end when it comes to solving political problems.

Pakistan is again in the midst of pressure from various sides, asking it to root out terrorist elements from its soil. The joint communiqué issued, after the European Union’s annual meeting with the Indian delegation headed by Prime Minister Singh, in Brussels, reiterated their common interest in a stable and peaceful Afghanistan that was free from terrorism. The leaders agreed that terrorism must be combated firmly and expressed concern at the continuing existence of safe havens. They shared the view that a democratic and prosperous Pakistan was in the interest of the entire region and called upon Islamabad to expeditiously bring the perpetrators, authors and accomplices of the Mumbai attacks to justice. Despite the fact that it has several times explained that those involved in the Mumbai terrorist activities were non-state actors. continue

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AHMED QURAISHI | WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM

There is a link between Pakistan’s future and the award-winning Emirates airline. Let me explain.

Today Pakistan is like its national airline PIA, talented but bankrupt, uncreative and miserable. This same failed PIA groomed nascent Emirates three decades ago. Unless we find a way to turn this PIA into Emirates, time won’t wait for us. Pakistanis have already begun swapping loyalties. Many of us prefer to fly any airline to flying the national carrier. What’s true for airlines is also true for nations.

Emirates, the country and not the airline, did it without democracy, elections, or laws. They still don’t have democracy today. But they have laws, discipline and a good life. Most Pakistanis, whether urban, rural or tribal, love to live in the Emirates. The point is that just having democracy won’t give us anything. The last three years are proof. We are having the wrong debate. What we need is creativity, prosperity, and then elections. And no, this is not a call for military intervention. The military is an important stakeholder and has a crucial role but not the only one. Pakistanis will have to pitch in. It’s their homeland. continue

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While the worlds last superpower took 200 US businessmen to Delhi, and did not sign any significant deals to invest in Bharat–the world’s next Superpower is coming to Islamabad. Chinese Prime Minister is bringing 260 businessmen with him–and several deals including the deal for the 1G Civilian Nuclear deal is about ready to be signed.

Procurement of 300 railway wagons is also expected to come under discussion as the President had already ordered an inquiry against officials creating hurdles in this deal. Unconfirmed reports suggest that China will announce facilitation of export of about 90 more items from Pakistan, which are not included in the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

A 260-member business delegation, including private entrepreneurs, is scheduled to visit Pakistan later this month, along the Chinese Premier, Wen Jia Bao.

Official sources told Business Recorder that a number of agreements, worth billions of dollars, in different sectors including energy, agriculture, water, trade, industry and defence are expected to be signed during Bao’s visit. Nuclear energy deals will be a top agenda item despite US pressure on Pakistan.

The Economic Affairs Division (EAD) is active in finalisation of new pacts, besides progress on agreements and MoUs inked in the recent past. The leaders of the two countries may also discuss progress on a possible deal between Pakistan and China on purchase of a Pakistani bank. A couple of months ago, President Asif Ali Zardari had directed the concerned officials, including State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor to remain in touch with the Chinese central bank to finalise a feasible proposal. continue

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Where Are Rest Of Wikileaks Cables? | Why They Are Being Censored? | Why No Scandal Yet Involving American Allies? | Wiki Leaks More Questions than Answers.

PAUL WOLF | WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM

Wikileaks does not make the material it receives available directly to the public. They are first censored by New York Times and several other prominent newspapers. Only 623 documents out of alleged 250,000 have appeared in public. The public needs to ask: Where are the remaining documents? Why the censorship? And why the selective release, assailing Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia and others and largely leaving out US allies? If newspapers will release censored cables, Mr. Assange should take up a job at NYT.

For the last four days, newspaper headlines around the globe have covered a cornucopia of diplomatic scandals, resulting from the "leaking" of some 250,000 cables of the US State Department to the New York Times and several other newspapers. In case there is anyone left on the planet who hasn't heard of this, the cables were leaked to the media by "wikileaks," a mysterious non-governmental organization which purports to publish classified documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers. continue

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By Syed Talat Hussain

General, rest assured. I will read every word of it,” said US President Barack Obama to the Pakistan chief of army staff who had just handed him a 13-page. On his way out of the room President Obama took the paper with him, not leaving it for his staff to place in the usual pipelines of official communication.

The document, branded as a non-paper, is an attempt to give voice to Pakistan`s strategic interests in the policy review of the Afghanistan situation under way at the White House.

Diplomatic sources confirm that by taking the extraordinary step of placing the paper directly in the hands of President Obama, Gen Kayani has placed a strong “foot in the door of policy review”. continue

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China on Thursday agreed to extend co-operation in 36 development projects 
worth $13.2 billion related to industry, water, energy, agriculture, fisheries and communication. China on Thursday agreed to extend co-operation in 36 development projects worth $13.2 billion related to industry, water, energy, agriculture, fisheries and communication to boost economic activity in flood-hit areas of Pakistan.

China agreed during the 14th session of the Pak-China Joint Committee on Economic, Trade Scientific and Technical Cooperation (JEC) under the co-chairmanships of Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Shaikh and visiting China International Trade Representative from Ministry of Commerce Gao Hucheng. The two sides have also agreed to enhance Pakistani exports to China with the latter providing more tariff relaxation. continue

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Pakistan’s government has summoned a joint session of Parliament and Senate on the morning of December 18 in Islamabad where Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will address the parliament. China is expected to use the occasion to formalize its desire to upgrade the traditional strategic ties with its longtime ally Pakistan.

The story was first reported by The Daily Mail. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has ordered special preparations for the event. Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, all provincial governors and chief ministers, chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, chiefs of the armed forces and diplomats will be special guests, according to the paper. continue

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Mr. Hamid Karzai is pugnacious, arrogant, and very dangerous. he is holding terrorists as bargaining chips and supporting the Bramandagh Bugti and his nefarious activities. The world is still struggling with the deluge of information coming out of the flood called Wiki. Whether the so called leaks were orchestrated or are a reflection of the lax security on US sites remains to be seen. Pakistani analysts and the Pakistan Army will be analyzing each cable with a fine tooth comb.

In a cable dated Saturday, 20 January 2007, 12:35 (US embassy cables: Karzai admits to sheltering Baloch nationalists) President Hamid Karzai admits to sheltering over 200 Baloch nationalists. When it comes to the fate of Baloch leader Brahamdagh Bugti, Karzai takes the conversation off-record. The is the most clear proof that President Hamid Karzai is hosting the Baloch terrorists and confirms the accusations made by President Musharraf and the present government of Pakistan.
“On January 10, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Overseas Private Investment Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Mosbacher met with President Karzai.” …”Karzai wants to rid himself of the Bugti problem.” continue

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Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto berated President Ayub Khan in “The myth of Independence” for being too close to the US. His classic book is a must read for all Pakistanis and those interested in US-Pakistani relations. His book is a monograph in Pakistani nationalism and patriotism. He clearly states in the book that one cannot confront a superpower, or change its mind. The Superpower will do whatever is in its interest irregardless of “Just” and Fairplay”. Tariq Ali brilliantly paints the geo-political situation in his book titled “The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power“. Actually a more apt title would have been ”The Abused ally: The US in the Flight Path of Pakistani Power”.

On the day WikiLeaks released a slew of American diplomatic cables revealing, among other things, tensions between the US and Pakistan over nuclear matters, a top Pakistani military official claimed the country “has transited from the ‘most sanctioned ally’ to the ‘most bullied ally’” of the US. continue

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Prof. AKHBAR NAVEES | PakPotPourri
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Americans are large-hearted people, hardworking problem-solvers. They created a genuine democracy capable of unifying mankind. But their politicians, big business and global warriors have ruined it. Can the Americans save their homeland?

The US today is, temporarily, the world’s foremost power. It is a country whose people are blessed with wonderful qualities of the head and heart. They are honest, hardworking problem solvers, large-hearted, decent and deeply innocent. The emergence of the US as a power with the greatest ever reaches in human history is the result of a conscious and sustained effort on the part of Washington to make America a great power. continue

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India’s Case Has Weakened After Two Years on the tragedy but Washington is using it to blackmail Pakistan. Here’s How.

AHMED QURAISHI |WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM

Two year later, no one has probed the international aspect of the planning for the Mumbai attacks. Both India and the United States are focused only on the alleged Pakistani part of the attacks. The Pakistani part is limited. The international dimension of the planning and preparations for the attacks is vast and full of leads that have been deliberately suppressed by the Indian and US governments.

India is focused on settling political scores with Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. The United States insists on becoming a party to the Mumbai attack and is using the group’s name to peddle conspiracy theories about LeT’s ‘global ambitions’ in order to pressurize Pakistan on the Afghan front and rid India of one of its most formidable Kashmiri foes.

India is yet to convict the lone surviving terrorist in the attacks, Ajmal Kassab. New Delhi is yet to reveal crucial parts of its own probe, especially any information on the backgrounds and identities of the ten terrorists who carried out an impressive attack against India on Indian soil with near impunity.

By delaying the conviction of Kassab for two years, India has lost the credibility of its case and weakened its allegations against Pakistan. The only reason there’s no conviction is because there’s no evidence. And as time passes, more information emerges about the international aspects of this crime. The new information further weakens India’s get-Pakistan campaign.

That’s good news for Pakistan. But there’s a whole bundle of trouble for Pakistan that has developed since 2008. It would be suicidal for the Pakistani government to ignore it: continue

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Musharraf says evidence of Indian involvement has been shared with everyone, including 
Afghanistan's president Hamid Karazai and the US.

Former president Pervez Musharraf said that the Indian government is responsible for creating unrest in Baochistan, while speaking to Munizae Jahangir during an interview on the Express 24/7 programme ‘Face Off’ in London. Musharraf reiterated his earlier claims that Indian and Afghan involvement in Balochistan was creating unrest there, adding that the Pakistani government had solid evidence of their involvement and that the evidence had been shared with everyone. “Even (Afghan) President Karzai has been given (the evidence),” he said.

Musharraf said the military operation against Nawab Akbar Bugti was justified as he had been creating trouble in Balochistan. “There is a person who is firing 500 rockets on Sui. There is a person who has occupied the hill features and is firing rockets and weapons… on the Frontier Corps. They are blowing up the gas pipeline, the electric pylon, the railway line”. continue

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Who should be held responsible: retired General Pervez Musharraf, President Asif Ali Zardari or COAS Gen. Ashfaque Parvez Kayani? They can’t shun their responsibility for the rise in CIA drone attacks in Pakistan in the past three years and someone will have to become answerable in front of the Pakistani nation.

SALIM BOKHARI | 
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The increase in the American drone attacks in the South and North Waziristan has now become unbearable. The stage has come where our leadership should pick up the guts to tell US President Barack Obama enough is enough. The main question is who should be held responsible for allowing the ruthless killing of innocent civilians in collateral damage- former military dictator Gen. (retd) Pervez Musharraf, COAS Ashfaq Parvez Kayani or President Asif Ali Zardari? Although no immediate answer is available, yet none of them can shun responsibility and the day is not far off when they will have to account for their role.

Even if we argue that this is being done to eliminate Al-Qaeda and extremist elements from the tribal region, nothing justified carrying out 200-plus drone attacks since they started in 2004, killing well over 2,000 innocent civilians as only 30 suspected terrorists were hit. The ratio of striking against the Al-Qaeda operatives achieved by these drone attacks, according to military estimates is as low as 2.5 per cent, which is not enviable by any standards. continue

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From day one India has played rough against Pakistan. Now it is playing with fire by assuming that it
is at par with China. Let’s hope for sanity to prevail in Chanakyapuri.

HARRISS KHAN | Columnists
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Give the devil its due credit. An overwhelming majority in Pakistan considers India as a devil. Going by the idiom, India should be fully credited for sharp and foxy diplomacy for swaying the U.S to do the needful and fulfill their demands.

Obama started his visit by avoiding Indian media’s demand of demonizing Pakistan. But he ended the visit doing just that. He lost midterm elections because of economy. So it was a smart move to hedge his bets for 2012 by committing India to buy $15 billion’s worth of American goods creating more then 60,000 jobs back home.

The US is the largest spending economy followed by the Europeans. Since these markets are saturated, looking for new buyers makes sense. With a billion people, India is a legitimate consumer. That’s why more than 150 CEOs of large US corporations traveled with Obama to sell. continue

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IKRAM SEHGAL | The News International
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Reko Diq is a remote location in the north-west of Chagai, a sparsely populated district in north-western Balochistan. The weather in the desert there ranges from searing summers of 40-50°C to freezing winters of down to -10°C, with precipitations (winter rain and some snowfall) of less than 40mm. Periods of high wind and dust- and sandstorms have a demobilising impact on local activities and trade. Access to Chagai district is from the Zahidan-Quetta highway.

A large low-grade copper porphyry deposit, Reko Diq has total mineral resources of 5.9 billion tons of ore with an average copper grade of 0.41 per cent and gold grade of 0.22 g/ton. The economically mineable portion of the deposit has been calculated at 2.2 billion tons, with an average copper grade of 0.53 per cent and gold grade of 0.30 g/ton. The annual production is estimated at 200,000 tons of copper and 250,000 ounces of gold contained in 600,000 tons of concentrate. At today’s international prices of copper at $8,600/ton (with cost of production at $1,500/ton) and gold at $1,350/ounce (with cost of production $350/ounce), the profit works out to $1.42 billion for copper and $2.5 billion for gold, $4 billion approximately annually from a revenue of $4.65 billion. This translates to $224 billion’s profit from revenues of $260 billion over the life of the mine. continue

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The War On Terror Is A Shortcut To Pakistan Army’s Impending Demise.

ZAINAB CHEEMA |  usa.mediamonitors.net
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At times, one may wonder at the seeming irrationality of US foreign policy toward Pakistan. When the floods struck, the US government was the most prolific donor, with USAID politicos expressing ready sympathy for the victims. American officials have declared that it is imperative to broadcast a beneficent image of the United States, worriedly citing polls that track the rise of anti-American sentiment in the Pakistani public. This is sandwiched by CIA bombing campaigns in Waziristan and hired mercenaries like Blackwater (now Xe) Corporation conducting terrorizations that alienate hearts and minds throughout Pakistan.

A fresh development in this schizophrenic saga is the return of Pakistani strongman Pervez Musharraf to the political arena. From his current perch in London, Musharraf announced on October 1 that he is creating a new political party — the All Pakistan Muslim League — to run for office in Pakistani elections. Proud collaborator of the War on Terror, his speeches show that the destabilization and social terror he helped inflict hasn’t impaired his flair for the grandiose. “Today, God has given me the opportunity to set the tone for my political legacy,” he announced at his London press conference. “Come join me in changing Pakistan’s destiny. It is not an easy task but one we must work for, as Pakistan is ours.” Frederick Turner would be gratified — Manifest Destiny indeed. continue

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Australian defense experts said that China sold Pakistan from the low-end sales of advanced fighter aircraft to the present, showing their intention to enhance strategic influence in Asia. Professor of Asian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic Zi Yani Mallika said: "China is developing weapons production and export of its actual capacity. China has to rely on Russian technology once, but it is clear now than when it has Strong many. "expert fighters to Pakistan, sourcing from China, as China is expanding its military power in the evidence.

A Western official said: "countries such as Iran, and some Middle East countries, if we can find in China, the technology can be comparable to Western countries, will be very happy to deal with China. Pakistan will act as a test pilot the aircraft in China room, if these aircraft in the hands of Pakistani air force performed well, then other countries will follow suit to buy. "today's China, though not arrogant, but it can indeed talk about the strategic impact of the topic. continue

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If the US-led coalition needed the Taliban position to calibrate its transition strategy in Afghanistan at the Nato summit in Lisbon this week it has been supplied by Mulla Omar himself. In a message posted on the Taliban website, a ritual coincidental to every Eid, he has denied, forcefully and in no uncertain terms, negotiations with the Afghan government.

"The Islamic Emirate believes the solution of the issue lies in withdrawal of invading troops and establishment of true Islamic and independent system in the country," says his message. Mulla Omar also decries the "cunning country which has occupied our country", for its moves on the one hand to expand its military operations and on the other "wants to throw dust into eyes of the people by spreading rumours of negotiations". continue

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By Anwar Iqbal – DAWN . Com
14 Apr – 2010

Pakistan has said that it has acquired advanced nuclear fuel cycle capability and can offer it to the rest of the world under IAEA safeguards. The offer, contained in a national statement presented at a two-day summit which concluded in Washington on Tuesday, reflected Islamabad’s desire to gain recognition as a nuclear state.

“As a country with advanced fuel cycle capability, Pakistan is in a position to provide nuclear fuel cycle services under IAEA safeguards, and to participate in any non-discriminatory nuclear fuel cycle assurance mechanism,” the document said.
At the summit, Pakistan also reiterated its proposals for establishing a strategic restraint regime in South Asia.The policy paper released during the conference stressed that such a regime would “promote nuclear and missile restraint, a balance in conventional forces, and conflict resolution”.

Pakistan said that it had already concluded with India risk reduction and confidence-building measures which included a hot line, prior notification of ballistic missile tests, and an agreement on reducing the risk of accidents relating to nuclear weapons.
“More than ever, India and Pakistan need a substantive, structured and sustained dialogue on all issues, including nuclear CBMs,” the Pakistani statement said.

It also underlined Pakistan’s legitimate needs for power generation to meet the growing energy demand of its expanding economy.
“Civil nuclear power generation under IAEA safeguards is an essential part of our national energy security plan to support sustained economic growth and industrial development,” the statement pointed out.

In his address at the inaugural dinner on Monday night, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told the participants that Pakistan had more than 35 years’ experience of operating nuclear power plants, a highly trained manpower and a well-established safety and security culture.

“Pakistan qualifies for participation in civil nuclear cooperation at the international level. We urge all relevant forums to give Pakistan access to nuclear technology for peaceful uses, in a non-discriminatory manner,” he said.  continue

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Pakistani Pashtuns cannot be stopped from sympathizing with Afghan Pashtuns. Pakistan must tell United States to solve the Afghan Pashtun problem inside Afghanistan. Islamabad should also dispute US claims about the quality of Al Qaeda presence and strength on the Pak-Afghan border. Pakistan’s tribal belt is not responsible for American rout in Afghanistan.

By AHMED QURAISHI - WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM

There is a very simple question that every Pakistani government official needs to ask the Americans: If you fail to pacify the Pashtun in Afghanistan, is it Pakistan’s responsibility to sever historical ties and wage war against them?

This is the mother of all questions because it deals with the issue of some, not all, of the Afghan Taliban using Pakistani territory to attack occupation armies in their country. Apparently this is the excuse the United States is using to expand its failed Afghan war into Pakistan. US officials say Pakistanis are unable to exercise sovereignty over their own territory. US proxies inside Pakistan – in politics and media – then use this argument to ask another question: Isn’t Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban violating Pakistani sovereignty by using our border pockets as hideouts away from action inside Afghanistan? This argument is used to justify US violations of the Pak-Afghan international border. If Afghan Taliban can violate Pakistan’s border, why not the US military? So the justification goes. continue

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In the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson drove to an area outside the capital Islamabad called Chak Shehzad. This is where the city’s famous and wealthy maintain farmhouses. In one such house owned by a Member of National Assembly Ms. Donya Aziz who is a member of PML, the party once headed by former President Pervez Musharraf, Amb. Patterson held an unannounced and apparently secret meeting with PML’s chief Shujaat Hussain and Ch. Pervez Ilahi. Ms. Aziz and her mother, Mrs. Shehla Aziz, had reportedly organized several such meetings between her party leaders and the US ambassador. Both the US Embassy and the party have kept the meetings under wraps. continue

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Pakistan on Sunday snubbed the world for its unending “do more” mantra while refusing to provide additional funds for the country’s security and economic needs.

The strong-worded message, delivered at the Pakistan Development Forum by Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Khyber-Pakthunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti, shows a lack of trust between Islamabad and other allies in the war on terror.
“Sorry for being undiplomatic…even if you cannot give us funds, give us moral support and do not ask us to do more as we have already sacrificed so many lives and spent billions of dollars on the war against terror,” said Malik. continue

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Published in The Express Tribune

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that it has not asked Pakistan to increase electricity tariff as this is something the country has to decide itself. “The IMF has only asked Pakistan to solve the issues related to the energy crisis in consultation with the World Bank and the IMF,” it said.

The IMF authorities have maintained that the introduction of the RGST bill in parliament marks the start of implementation of conditions agreed with the Fund and that they have told the Pakistani officials that the step has strengthened their hand.
They said the IMF review mission will recommend issuing the next tranche to Pakistan in its report. However, presentation of the RGST bill in parliament will not suffice as it will also have to be implemented in order for Islamabad to qualify for the $1.7b loan installment.

A senior IMF official, while talking to Express, rejected the notion that Pakistan was increasing the electricity tariff to fulfill the demands of the Fund. He said the Fund has only asked Islamabad to sit with the two Brettonwood institutions to solve the power sector problems while increase in the electricity tariff was its own issue. He pointed out that the IMF has no expertise in power sector and whatever is needed to be done is Pakistan’s own decision. He said that IMF only identifies problems in its capacity as a donor. continue

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in a newspaper interview published Sunday, voiced his opposition to US done attacks in Pakistan, and said that he now realises that the Pakistanis are suffering more than Afghans due to terrorist violence afflicting the region.

“My nature is not one that appreciates military. I’m not a pro-gun person, I don’t like guns or airplanes, so I can never talk in favourable terms about planes that are shooting people or bombing people, so you’ll have to ask a more hardcore fellow, I’m a soft-core fellow,” he said in response to a question about drone attacks in Pakistan in the interview with The Washington Post.
Asked what more should be done by the US to address insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan, the Afghan leader said: “This is the main problem in the war on terror. There was a time early on that the United States could work effectively on the sanctuaries, where there was full backing by the Afghan people, in this regard. It didn’t happen. And now they’re addressing this problem by the drone attacks, and also by talking and continuing to engage with Pakistan. Sanctuaries (are) a problem. A serious problem. For Afghanistan, now also for Pakistan. I just hope that Afghanistan, the United States and Pakistan together will do all that we can together to address the problem. For the initial years, I was highly critical of Pakistan and their lack of action on the sanctuaries. Now … I see Pakistan suffering more than we are in lots of ways, especially in the consequences of the violence that these sanctuaries and the militancy there.

“On the one hand, I sympathise with them and want to be closer to them and work together to address it. On the other hand, I’d like to ask them to do more on the sanctuaries and for the United States to pay closer attention to this problem. Peace in Afghanistan will not come unless we address the question of sanctuaries and unless Afghanistan and Pakistan are on the best of terms as friends and neighbours and brothers, with America, present with us and among us.” 

This news was published in print paper. To access the complete paper of this day. 

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Should we adjudge the ‘intent’ of India while framing our military defence, or should we look at India’s ‘capacity’ to harm Pakistan? Intent is when India says it wants a stable Pakistan and wants normal, good-neighbourly relations with it. Capacity is the actual capability of the Indian army to harm Pakistan, its induction of new weapon systems and the upgradation of the systems it has. Our army chief, General Kayani, adheres to the second ‘realist’ assessment. He says he will frame Pakistan’s defensive strategy in line with India’s acquisition of Pakistan-specific weapons.

On Tuesday night, November 9, 2010 Dunya TV had anchor Najam Sethi saying that General Kayani’s doctrine opened Pakistan to an arms race that Pakistan simply could not afford and that the ‘doctrine’ was a new concept in Pakistan’s confrontation with India. Anchor Dr Moeed Pirzada, a well-read person among our TV commentators, said that the ‘realist’ doctrine of General Kayani was the widely accepted yardstick of defence response among nations. It was much safer to study the war capability developed by the enemy state than to pay heed to the peaceful ‘intent’ expressed by it. continue

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Says China And Asia Are Closer Than Ever; Calls For New Security System That Respects Differences

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· Avoid internationalizing disputes in South China Sea
· Parties need to meet halfway on Korean Peninsula; views of everyone must be considered before denuclearization
· China and Pakistan are ‘good neighbors, close friends and trusted brothers’
· ‘Unselfish and unconditional help’ and support to Pakistan
· Thousands of Chinese engineers and workers in Pakistan working hard for the country
· China sees 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations in 2011 as opportunity to take the relationship to a new high

As China’s leadership honors Pakistan by inviting the Pakistani president to open Asian Games 2010, China’s ambassador to Pakistan says China’s role in Asia cannot be denied, that China invests in Asia more than any other continent, and that disputes must be appropriately managed and resolved according to international norms.  continue

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Expose of Gandhi – Obama’s Role Model

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· Gandhi praised Hitler and asked all European Jews to commit mass suicide

· 109th Congress of the United States condemned Gandhi’s anti-Jewish remarks

· India failed to get him nominated for Nobel; Nobel Peace Prize Committee produced a telegram sent
   by Gandhi as proof his being a perpetrator of violence

· Gandhi’s sex exploits, his pedophilia and moral turpitude

· Like African Americans, Gandhi refused to give Dalits, the ‘untouchable’ and segregated Hindus,
  separate electorate, he kept them in slavery

Western media has romanticized Gandhi, and other cultures followed blindly. To this day, South Africans won’t allow Indians to erect a statue of Gandhi in Durban. Research by Time magazine, Nobel Peace Committee and US Congress confirms India’s founding hero, and US President Barrack Obama’s idol, supported anti-African apartheid and extermination of Jews. His wife died of a preventable disease because his religious extremism stopped him from using ‘western’ penicillin. continue

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By Raja Chemayel

Alexander of Macedonia, the son of the first and son of the greatest democracy , once terrorised and robbed the whole world !!

Let us , for the sake of the argument
gather all the freedom-fighters ,
all liberation-movements
all mujaheddin and all insurgents worldwide ,
and especially in the Middle East…..
we shall call them : Coalition of TERRORISM

on the other hand , we shall gather ,
the USA , the UK , France , Israel
and the NATO , too……
and we shall call them : Coalition of DEMOCRACY

Having done so , and having given them those names,
we shall please count :
1- How many innocent civilians were killed by each ??
2- How many countries were invaded by each ??
3- How many tons of bombs were dropped by each ??
4- How many weddings were bombed by each ??
5- Who has occupied whom ??
6- Who is holding more prisoners illegally (or even legally)
7- How many Pirates are in Somalia
and how many Pirates are outside Gaza ??
8- who assasinated Rafiq el Harriri and then blamed Syria ??
who hanged Saddam Hussein and replaced him by sectarian-maffias ??
etc…..etc……etc……

After having done this statistical-mathematical-comparison ,
you shall agree with me that :
Democracy should rather be called Terrorism !!
(at least for the time being, and until better time comes….)

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Forget the Obama-Singh hug, here is the truth about the biggest two-way blackmail in world diplomacy in recent history: Kashmir for Boeing.

India’s renowned activist and novelist Arundhati Roy has made another impassioned plea for Kashmir’s right to self-determination in an op-ed in The New York Times. In her ironic style, she has ridiculed US President Barrack Obama, the Indian military and government, and reintroduced Shakeel to the world, the young Kashmiri whose 22-year-old wife and 17-year-old sister were raped and murdered by Indian occupation soldiers and thrown into a river.

But the best part of her op-ed, titled, ‘Kashmir’s Fruits of Discord’, is her take on the Indo-US double blackmail: how the United States is using Kashmir to blackmail India, and how India is using arms purchases to blackmail the US. continue

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The Supreme Court has been requested via a petition to order the federal and provincial governments to renegotiate the Reko Diq mining contract, set to expire in the last week of this month, in favour of the country instead of the mining firm. Terming the sale of Reko Diq mines as the last chance for saving the country from “foreign exploiters”, the petitioner said that Pakistan should get an 80 per cent share and the mining company’s share should not exceed 20 per cent. The request was made in a petition filed in the Lahore registry of the Supreme Court by the Punjab president of the Watan Party, Hashim Shaukat Khan.

Barrister Zafarullah Khan, the petitioner’s counsel, quoted Khan as saying that corporate bosses of two of the largest mining groups in the world have been holding meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and the State Bank governor, pressing them to “quietly and quickly” hand over Balochistan’s vast mineral treasure “worth over $3 trillion”.
Over the years, he said, so many “games” have been played with national assets and so many public enterprise units have been sold for “peanuts” that the soundness of national economy has been completely eroded, which has resulted in bankruptcy of the national treasury, starvation and loss of sovereignty. continue

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Posted by Ahmed Quraishi –  Pak Nationalist

If So, For How Much And Whose Palms Were Greased?

Most Pakistanis missed a newspaper advertisement over the weekend that indicates that Pakistan’s elected rulers have no qualms conducting deals away from public scrutiny worth billions—even when there are public complaints about it.

No one noticed when an international mining conglomerate placed a large advert in a Pakistani newspaper over the weekend seeking to recruit a slick operative to help in dealing with the federal Pakistani government for ‘a major project in the mining industry in Pakistan.’

The advertisement was placed by Tethyan Copper Company in Dawn newspaper yesterday, Sunday, Nov. 7. In explaining the new recruitment, the advert said, “[Tethyan], in partnership with Government of Balochistan, is developing a world-class copper-gold mine in Reko Diq, District Chagal of Balochistan.”

The ad sought to invite applicants for the position of Security & Government Affairs Officer based in Islamabad. As the title suggests, the successful candidate is expected to ensure security on the ground in Balochistan, and create and peddle influence to ensure no government department blocks company interests. continue

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The second batch of four Z9EC Anti Submarine helicopters, and the first Information and Electronic Warfare Jet aircraft were formally inducted in Pakistan Navy Aviation fleet on Thursday. The induction ceremony was held at PN Aviation Base PNS Mehran. Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral, Noman Bashir was the chief guest.

The Z9EC helicopters have been acquired from China under the contract with China National Aero technology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC). The first batch was inducted last year which has been successfully taking part in Naval Air Operations. These helicopters operate from F-22P Frigates which now make an important part of PN Fleet. The helicopters are equipped with advanced sensors and torpedoes for undertaking designed role of Anti Submarine Warfare. continue

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Dan Qayyum, PKKH

Stone wielding children against slick, modern machine guns and live bullets . Rape. Torture. Military-enforced curfew. Secret, illegal detentions and disappearances. Mass graves. Property demolition. Ethnic cleansing. Humiliation. Intimidation. Using brute force against unarmed protestors. Occupation. You may be mistaken for taking this as a description of Israel’s 62-year long occupation of the Palestinian lands, or a reference to the US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. This, is a description of what Kashmiris have gone through for decades under the despicable and savage 63 year old Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. continue

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Dvija Jee is has joined PakNationalists.com as illustrator mocking India’s policy options and superpower ambitions in the region. His character is a replica of a prototype Indian politician known for using Hinduism, a religion of peace, for racist, political, territorial and religious ends. Almost all of India’s immediate neighbors are disturbed by Dvija Jee and see him as hegemonic, overbearing and ugly. Dvija Jee is a source of conflict and tension with China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. Thanks to his intransigence, Kashmir is a nuclear flashpoint and thousands of innocent Kashmiri women have been raped by him as a means to hurt the Kashmiris who demand an end to Indian occupation. Dvija Jee knows he needs to mend his ways. He was thinking about it when Uncle Sam whispered to him, ‘You could be a superpower’. Since then, Dvija Jee has been flying in another world. For example, he knows if he left Kashmir now, hundreds of thousands of stories of state-sponsored rapes, torture and mass graves will emerge. Who will save Dvija Jee then?

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India is worried about US popular backlash as more American jobs are ‘Indianized’

• New Delhi’s weapons purchases from US are dwarfed by Saudi and Gulf arms orders, Indian clout goes only so far
  
• The Indian IT bubble is largely Call-Center based. American states are increasingly banning outsourcing of jobs to India
  
• Chinese IT industry easily beats Indian IT but it’s not as externally focused as Indians are
  
• Obama is opposed to unlimited H-1 visas to Indian nationals and others

With its generally low purchasing power, India is not that much of a long term market for the US. The Obama visit is more about resolving Kashmir which could help facilitate a US safe exit from Afghanistan.

The hullabaloo about the Obama trip to Bharat(1) has caught headlines all over the world. The Bharatis see this as a move towards superpower status. America sees it for what it is –a means to sell American products and services to Bharat.

While Bharat heralds its clout in defense procurement as proof of the leverage it has over American business, this has to be seen through the prism of major defense contractors. Let’s benchmark other countries to see what their clout is.

Saudi Arabia is buying $60 billion’s worth of arms from America. The Gulf States are purchasing $130 billion of arms from America. These colossal purchases dwarf the Bharati purchases and dilute the Indian plan to get clout in the US Department of Defense.

From defense deals to outsourcing and trade, the tenor of the visit is to focus on job creation and business for US companies. A top US official said one of the ‘major themes’ that Obama will emphasize is India as a ‘tremendous market’. continue

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SHAHEEN SEHBAI in Washington And AHMED NOORANI in Islamabad | Wednesday | 3 November 2010 | EXCLUSIVE The News International
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This is a scandal 500 times bigger than Pakistan Steel. What were the top foreign executives doing in Islamabad? Why foreign companies are being given a generous 75% share? The Supreme Court of Pakistan must intervene before the deal is sealed, although Balochistan chief minister says Pakistan’s interest will be protected.

Quietly, and below the media radar, some 20 top corporate bosses and lobbyists of two of the world’s largest gold mining groups have been meeting President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Gilani, Governor State Bank and others in Islamabad throughout last week, pressing them to quickly hand over one of the world’s biggest gold and copper treasures found in Balochistan at Reko Diq, worth over $260 billion, to their companies, and for peanuts.

Before these highly enticing visits of the mining tycoons to clinch the deals, which followed intense behind-the-scene negotiations and bargaining through middle men, some highly bizarre developments have been taking place, leaving experts and the rest of the mining world stunned, amazed and confused. continue

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Until recently, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, who is considered a weakling in his own party, impressed his colleagues and opponents by showing them a framed picture of himself sitting with US President Barack Obama in the White House. Insecure Pakistani politicians believe a meeting with a US president means enough backing to take on domestic opponents. Most visitors have seen the picture prominently placed in one corner of the Pakistani prime minister’s office. And none of them have missed the indirect message that Mr. Gilani wants his guests to leave with: that he’s a strong prime minister with powerful international friends. continue

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* The old lot uniting again to produce the sequel to the same flop movie which they have been producing since day one
* Out of 180 million Pakistanis, 25 are playing musical chairs with this great nation

All of them deserve 21 gun salutes for being in their late 60s and 70s with hardly any level of energy left in them but still obsessed with the self-exaggerated notion that they are the only ones who can lead this brave nation out of crises.

Leadership has to be a blend of mental stamina and zeal. If we search for leaders from history who led their people out of despondency and into glory, one striking commonality to all of them is that they were passionate about their causes and mature enough to transform them into reality.

Adolf Hitler says, ‘There are two types of people in politics: political philosophers and practical politicians. Former the marathon runners of history and latter the brow of a dying hero.”  continue

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‘Fragmentation’ and ‘Mistrust’ are two hallmarks of US policy in Pakistan. The study blames Washington for pursuing political and economic policies toward Pakistan that could lead to the balkanization of this nuclear-armed nation with the world’s seventh largest standing armed forces.

Chronic political instability in today’s Pakistan is partially the result of efforts by the United States in 2006 and 2007 to create a pliant ruling coalition in Islamabad with the help of former president Pervez Musharraf, says a report issued by an independent Pakistani think tank.

Pakistan needs to remain calm and keep a defensive posture in dealing with an unfriendly American military presence in the region. “We should remain calm and defensive, rather than reactive,” says Dr. Muhammad Hafeez in the study titled, ‘Divide Your Enemy: Fragmentation And Mistrust, Tools of American Foreign Policy Towards Pakistan’. continue

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By AHMED QURAISHI
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If Pakistani politicians fail to build consensus, will they agree then on the need to step aside, spare us their chaotic politics, and let the rest of us force changes into the system to allow new thinking and new faces? Nawaz Sharif's idea of a 25-year plan for Pakistan is not bad. Except if it means 25 more years of the same tested, tried and failed politics by the same incapable political parties.

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Nawaz Sharif has issued a statement asking the nation's politicians, judiciary and the military to create a 25-year plan he called the Charter of Pakistan. The plan, he said, should be produced 'with consensus' to pull Pakistan 'out of its problems.'

Our politicians are just discovering what statesmen in other nations take for granted. Better late than never.

There is no reason to doubt Mr. Sharif's sincerity in floating this idea. But he should also ponder with an open mind what many skeptic Pakistanis say about it. Seen from another context, this noble idea can easily turn into 25 more years of the same tested, tried and failed politics in Pakistan. More bluntly: another lease on life for dying Pakistani political elite. continue

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When a US delegate once confronted a Chinese diplomat about Beijing's uncompromising support for Pakistan, the Chinese reportedly responded with a heavily-loaded sarcastic remark: "Pakistan is our Israel".

But judging by China's unrelenting support for some of its allies, including North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe and Sudan, its protective arm around these countries is no different from the US and Western political embrace of Israel – right or wrong.

While China is battling the West over exchange rates, import tariffs and its territorial claims in the South China Sea, Beijing is also lobbying furiously to stall a Western- inspired proposal for a Commission of Inquiry on possible war crimes by the military junta in Burma (Myanmar).

"Such a commission should not be seen as a way to punish the government, but to prevent impunity and help prevent further abuse," says the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana.

But China, which in January 2007 exercised its veto, along with Russia, to prevent Security Council sanctions against Burma, has not shown any willingness to back the proposal – even for a watered-down commission.

"Clearly," says one Asian diplomat, "China is trying to reassert its political clout at the United Nations as a counterweight to its defensive stand on currency and trade issues."

The New York Times newspaper said on Tuesday that the US administration is facing a "confrontational relationship" with an assertive China and is trying to respond to "a surge of Chinese triumphalism" by strengthening Washington's relationship with Japan and South Korea. continue

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By HARRISS KHAN
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My countrymen, Pakistan is passing through tumultuous times and we as a nation have to sacrifice”. This sentence was the starter of late Gen. Zia’s speech which I used to listen to when I was a kid during late 1980s. Then I grew up and saw the same rhetoric being uttered by our young Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and then by the not-so-innocent Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. When I entered university to enjoy the rush of adrenaline (for all the stories I heard about university life), I would see Gen. Musharraff uttering the same rhetoric.

That sentence lingers on very much in 2010.

If you do extensive historical readings about Pakistan and travel every inch of it, you can reach a fair conclusion that there is a ‘hand of God’ in the affairs of Pakistan. These so-called established leaders have always made us afraid of the grave situation we are confronted with by using the aforementioned sentence in the opening of their speech. 180 million Pakistanis resolve is time tested and their endurance is guaranteed. We were down under in 1971 when East-Pakistan was plucked from Jinnah’s envisioned Pakistan, remember Russian treaty with India in august 1971 emboldened Indra Gandhi to attack Pakistan openly in November 1971 and then the end is a known fact to all of us. The same bleeding and weak Pakistan went for all out support in late 70’s, when even western support was not in sight, to their Afghan brethren and made Russia bleed profusely. Resultantly Russian empire diminished from the world map and we took our revenge from at least one party which was involved in dismantling Pakistan back in 1971, the other can enjoy the breathing space for the time being. continue

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BY SHIREEN M. MAZARI

Tokyo is asking Pakistan to sign NPT while condoning nuclear sales to India. The move will worsen global nuclear proliferation. Unfortunately, like the US, Japan’s record on nuclear safety is not too good.

Non-proliferation has over time become increasingly discriminatory and a vehicle for the powerful to pressurize states they consider “unreliable”, and the fact that these targeted states happen to be primarily Muslim states, with the sole exception of North Korea, reflects a further bias within the developed world. In fact, the accommodating manner in which the US has treated North Korea’s open defiance of the NPT in contrast to the treatment meted out to Iran which has stayed within its NPT obligations and continuously reiterated its abhorrence of nuclear weapons, only bolsters the perception that Muslim states are being targeted by the US and its allies on multiple fronts, especially post-9/11. The Indo-US nuclear deal, and the repercussions of it within the IAEA and Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG), has brought all these contradictions and dualities out into the open. continue

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By David Pilling

Just 18 months ago Hillary Clinton declared there was an “existential threat” to Pakistan. The Taliban had occupied the picturesque Swat valley and imposed sharia law only 100 miles from Islamabad. With militancy on the rise in almost every corner of the country and bomb blasts thundering across its cities, the nuclear-armed state did indeed appear to be in peril.

Only weeks after the US secretary of state’s intervention, Pakistani troops poured into Swat. Several hundred militants were killed and more than 2m refugees fledin the biggest internal displacement of people since the Rwandan genocide. The Swat campaign was “a watershed moment”, according to Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab and an ally of the civilian government of President Asif Ali Zardari. “It was a battle for life and death. If we hadn’t survived that, who knows?”

Who knows indeed. Yet watershed moments are hardly a rarity in Pakistan, a state that lurches from crisis to crisis like a bus stuck in first gear (and lacking brakes and headlights to boot). Since the army imposed a tenuous order on Swat, Pakistan has been buffeted by the mother of all floods, a fresh wave of suicide bombings and what Maleeha Lodhi, former ambassador to the US, calls “layer upon layer of economic crises”.

Yet Pakistan has survived. In its partial victories against Islamist militants it may even have made some kind of progress. It is all too easy to think of Pakistan as a failing – even a failed – state. But it might be better to see it as the state that refuses to fail. continue

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Farooq Hameed Khan – The Nation

It was the perfect setting for some frank and hard talk, as the Pakistani delegation headed by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi along with General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani arrived in Washington for the third round of the much trumpeted Strategic Dialogue.

Despite USA’s flood relief efforts, Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s 86-year jail sentence and increased drone strikes have fuelled anti-Americanism to new heights in Pakistan. More importantly, the unprovoked helicopter air strikes, which killed three Frontier Corps soldiers, had witnessed a stinging Pakistani response and as a result NATO’s Torkham and Chaman logistics lifelines were closed for almost 10 days. In addition, with over a hundred NATO oil tankers going up in flames in Pakistan, the US administration was shocked. A few weeks earlier, a Pakistani military delegation had called off their official visit to CENTCOM in protest against the humiliation faced at the airport in Washington. continue

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Was the green light given to CIA during the last round? Can our Foreign Minister Qureshi tell us if President Zardari gave the green light for CIA to kill innocent Pakistanis? Who in Islamabad is responsible for the deaths of innocent and patriotic Pakistanis in our tribal belt?

BY HARRISS KHAN | Thursday, 21 October 2010.
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The Pakistani delegation headed by our very own foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Hussain Qureshi is in session with the U.S delegation in Washington for the third round of the strategic dialogue, headed by secretary of state Hillary Rodham. The word strategic is enthralling but the moment a sane person comes to know about the outcome of these US-PAK strategic dialogues they instantly say, ‘It’s just a discourse between U.S and Pakistan for no better outcome.’

The recently published book, Obama’s Wars, is full of taunts against Pakistan, portraying it as a tainted ally. Not to mention a report by a Washington think tank accusing Pakistan of diverting flood money to its nuclear program. And the Obama administration report to Congress stating Pakistan is not doing enough against Al-Qaeda and Taliban. All of this leaves a bad taste in the mouth just before starting a strategic dialogue and clearly shows that U.S is pressurizing Pakistan by this rhetoric and storming up a public perception that Pakistan is the reason why America is losing Afghanistan. continue

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Stringent conditions are expected to be attached with the new $2 billion US military aid that Pakistan may start receiving from 2012. Background interviews with American diplomats and Foreign Office officials reveal that the aid will be linked with progress against militant groups which the Obama administration believes the Pakistan military has yet to confront head on.

The Americans suspect that the Pakistan military has a “hands off” approach towards certain militant groups, namely the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a jihadi outfit believed to be active in Indian Kashmir. A recent White House report submitted to the US Congress claims that the Pakistan military continued to avoid engagements that would put it in direct conflict with the Afghan Taliban or al Qaeda inspired Haqqani network in North Waziristan.

Official sources disclosed to The Express Tribune that the Indian lobby is also active in Washington to ensure that the US aid is linked with Pakistan dismantling LeT, which New Delhi believes was behind the Mumbai attacks.

However, it is widely believed that Pakistan’s reluctance to go after groups such as the Haqqani network stems from the fact that the military does not see it a direct threat to its interests. The military establishment is also concerned over the growing Indian influence in Afghanistan therefore it is keeping its options open by not directly challenging the Afghan Taliban. continue

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