FP: Punishing Pakistan is not the way to go
Posted by editor on February 4th, 2012 06:10 AM | Comments Off
Foreign Policy Friday, February 3, 2012
By Nancy Birdsall
In the January/February 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs, Stanford political scientist Stephen Krasner claims that "current U.S. policy toward Pakistan has failed" and recommends that the United States take a radically different approach: credibly threaten ...
WP-The administration’s muddled message on Afghanistan
Posted by editor on February 3rd, 2012 06:21 PM | Comments Off
THE WASHINGTON POST
Editorial: 3 Feb 2012
IT’S BECOMING increasingly difficult to reconcile the Obama administration’s military and diplomatic initiatives on Afghanistan. Last month, the State Department unveiled a “fight and talk” strategy that could involve the transfer of senior Taliban commanders from Guantanamo ...
Analysis – Behind Leaked Nato report On Pak
Posted by editor on February 1st, 2012 03:08 PM | Comments Off
Leaked Nato report proves American anger at Pakistan
By Rob Crilly February 1st, 2012
At first glance there is nothing desperately surprising in the leaked State of the Taliban report. To seasoned observers of Afghanistan's protracted wars, the headlines make for routine reading.
It is hardly ...
World Criticize As Obama Defends Drone Use In Pak
Posted by editor on January 31st, 2012 02:42 PM | Comments Off
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
By Carol E. Lee and Adam Entous
31 Jan2012
President Barack Obama offered his administration's most sweeping public defense of the U.S. drone campaign, saying the unmanned attacks haven't killed a large number of civilians but instead have been ...
Study-NATO Supply Stoppage Economic And Political Cost For US
Posted by editor on January 29th, 2012 05:46 AM | 3 Comments
Pakistan’s Border Closures Cost US Millions Monthly
Something you won’t hear being discussed on the news or by pundits just about anywhere is what it is currently costing the United States and NATO Forces to move much needed ...
U.S. Probe of NATO Attack Hardened Pakistani Suspicions
Posted by editor on January 28th, 2012 10:45 AM | Comments Off
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"The Overarching Lack of Trust"
by GARETH PORTER
Washington DC
The Pakistani military leadership’s response to the U.S. report on its helicopter attack on two Pakistani border posts Nov. 26 assailed the credibility of the investigation by Air Force Brig. Gen. Steven Clark ...
State Department Regular Press Briefing
Posted by editor on January 24th, 2012 04:14 AM | Comments Off
Extracts on Pakistan
12:58 p.m. EST Date: Monday, January 23, 2012:
Q: Still in the region, (on ?) Pakistan. The Pakistan military today fairly categorically rejected the U.S. report on the cross- border incident in November, saying that it was factually inaccurate ...
Talks With Taliban a Long Way Off, American Envoy Says
Posted by editor on January 23rd, 2012 02:55 PM | Comments Off
By Rod Nordland
KABUL, Afghanistan — No peace talks with the Taliban this week: That was the short message on Sunday from the American envoy charged with starting those negotiations.
Stopping here in Kabul this weekend on his way to Qatar, where the insurgents are ...
Pakistan Army Respond To US Report On NATO Attack
Posted by editor on January 23rd, 2012 02:35 PM | Comments Off
Rawalpindi 23 January: The US Investigation Report into the Salala incident of 26th November 2011, involving aerial strikes by US aircraft and helicopters resulting into Shahadat (killing) of 24 Pakistani soldiers and injury to 13 others, was received by the ...
Drone: How Pakistan helps the U.S. drone Civ Casualty updated 23 Aug 2012
Posted by editor on January 22nd, 2012 02:33 PM | Comments Off
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