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Hurriyat stumbles on fourth stakeholder
K. N. PANDITA
During six-plus decades of Kashmir issue, China generally maintained silence and let stakeholders guess what her line of thinking about this festering South Asian sore would be. Despite her close and rather clandestine relationship with Pakistan, China di......more...
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Balochistan: Unrelenting Insurgency
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The strategic and resource-rich Balochistan province continues to remain on the periphery of Pakistan's projects and perceptions. With both the "dialogue with those who are up in the mountains" and the counter-insurgency (CI) operations failing, the Baloc......more...
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South Waziristan: Blind Fury
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The Pakistan Army is reported to have wound up the first phase of Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path to Salvation) this past weekend, having captured all major towns and villages in the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) stronghold of South Waziristan...........more...
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Speeding into the Void
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
After much vacillation and hype, and stung by targeted attacks at its very core, the military launched its long-awaited Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path of Salvation) late on October 16, 2009, against the Hakeemullah Mehsud-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ......more...
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Assassins from the Epicentre
KANCHAN LAKSHMAN
The dangers of anarchy within Afghanistan and across areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border are predominantly sourced in Pakistan, to a far greater extent than in war-ravaged Afghanistan. The Taliban–al Qaeda combine and transnational jihadi groups b......more...
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Waziristan: A Stygian Dark
AJAI SAHNI
After months of ‘preparation’ – massive and often indiscriminate bombings in the region, as well as the massing of Forces, blockades and endless curfews – there are now credible reports that the Pakistan Army is poised to ‘storm’ the principal strongholds......more...
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Krishna-Qureshi Meeting
SARLA HANDOO
Their body language was quite reassuring. They smiled and shook hands. In fact while shaking S.M.Krishna’s hand Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told the media “I am shaking the hand and I am shaking it very firmly.” Equally optimistic were ......more...
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Dialog of the Unwilling
ALLABAKSH
It is a relief that after their 100-minute ‘dialogue’ on the sidelines of the UN general assembly meeting in New York, the Indian external affairs minister and his Pakistani counterpart adjourned without committing a date for their next meeting...........more...
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Manmohan Singh's Faulty Pakistan Policy
J. N. RAINA
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while delivering the panic button, stunned the nation recently that based on certain intelligence inputs from across the border, ‘terrorist groups’ –Pakistan calls them non-state actors—were planning fresh attacks in India........more...
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