The recent election of Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan surprised even the most cynical of political analysts tracking the politics of the Pakistan-Afghanistan region. Let us remember that during his last tenor as Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif tried to marginalized the… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Pakistan’
Obama’s Silent War: US Drone Strikes Cause Disproportionate Civilian Collateral Kills in Pakistan
A joint Stanford/NY University study on the human costs of President Obama’s drone wars in the fight to eliminate terrorism has found that only 2% of strikes resulted in the successful targeting of high-level terrorist targets but that a much… Read More ›
NATO Chicago Summit Stresses NATO’s Search for New Global Role & Highlights New Strategic Perspectives in Afghanistan & Pakistan
Chicago NATO Summit 2012 Declaration | Defense & Security News at DefenceTalk. Post-Libya and nearly post-Syria, it is clear that NATO seeks to understand and then establish a new role for itself globally, not only in defense, but it appears,… Read More ›
Implications of Obama’s new Longer-term Strategic Partnership Agreement with Afghanistan
Today, on the anniversary of the mission that eliminated Osama bin Laden across the border in Pakistan, President Obama has flown to Afghanistan to sign the much-anticipated longer-term Strategic Cooperation Agreement. As I write, President Obama is personally finalizing details… Read More ›
US-Pakistan Relations: Realistic Future Options Defined by Necessity? + Responses to Mr. Rudd
The US and Pakistan are like star-crossed lovers that have great sex when they eventually get together but the path to pleasure is so strewn with geopolitical and strategic land mines, that sex is rare! Very rare! Yet like… Read More ›
China’s Sphere of Control challenged by India’s Agni 5 and Contestation in the Spratly Islands + Response to Comments
After the introvert-ism of the cultural revolution, China has been steadily building its power and position as a regional, if not a global mega power. During the Cold War, China deliberately took on the-then more powerful US by supporting armed… Read More ›
Siachen Glacier Tragedy Represents an Opportunity for Mediating an Entrenched Conflict
On 13 April 1984, India took over a strategic portion of the Siachen Glacier in a military operation that since 1947, had been controlled by Pakistan. One of the most beautiful places on the earth, technically translating to “the land… Read More ›
Osama Bin Laden: New Info About Pakistan’s Collusion Should Create Accountability
It seems incredible that OBL had time, not only to lead one of the largest terrorist organizations in the world and to resist international attempts to identify and capture him, but incredulously, he also had time to father 5 kids!… Read More ›
IPI Global Observatory – Change of Guard at Pakistan’s ISI: Some Implications
This brief is really lacking any strategic recommendations or the observation that ISI under the new leadership of General Islam should be controlled and bought into civilian oversight. For too long this organization has supported the rise of extremist terrorist… Read More ›
The Obama Doctrine – By David Rohde | Foreign Policy
The Obama Doctrine – By David Rohde | Foreign Policy. A great analysis of what has actually transpired during the 3+ years of the Obama rule. I highly recommend reading the entire FP “war issue” magazine; it is one of… Read More ›
My Drone War – By Pir Zubair Shah | Foreign Policy
My Drone War – By Pir Zubair Shah | Foreign Policy. This is a superb piece of insight that supports my blog post on Obama’s new war strategy written a month or more ago! Shah provides credible information in this… Read More ›
Germany and Pakistan: A Comparative Analysis of Presidential Impunity
On Friday, Germany’s President Christian Wulff resigned after prosecutors from his home province of Lower Saxony asked the Bundestag to strip him of his impunity so that corruption investigations could go to scale. Adequate proof was presented for the Bundestag… Read More ›
Joint Tripartite Agreement between Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan – Feb 2012
Joint Statement of Trilateral Summit, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Pakistan’s Imminent Internal Collapse: De-facto Coup d’Etat by ISI
A lot has been written about the rise of the ISI, Pakistan’s intelligent agency, as a quisling factor in the pacification of the Afghanistan-Paksitan region and the war against Al-Qaeda. While ISI has been pivotal in providing important linkages to… Read More ›
