As Gore Vidal said once, “we are the United States of Amnesia.” We are. We don’t read. We don’t know other languages. We don’t study our own history. Our history is the history of an idea – an imperfect idea. Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines hosted a fantastic debate of various experts discussing the Bush legacy [...]
Read more →Anxiety continues to grow in India over the Obama presidency, says John Elliott on The Daily Beast. Pakistan has firmly believed that India had a special place in George W. Bush’s heart from turning a blind eye to the activities in Kashmir to the nuclear deal that allowed India to buy nuclear hardware from the [...]
Read more →As the United States steps up border raids into Pakistan, troops from both countries have commenced a deadly game of brinksmanship. Although aimed at asserting each other’s military presence along the Pakistan-Afghan border, the skirmishes risk outright hostilities. U.S. strikes in Pakistan are nothing new. Washington has conducted unilateral missile strikes since soon after its [...]
Read more →This month’s Economist announces the Terrorism Index for 2008, in which Pakistan is mentioned a few times. According to the report results, Pakistan is considered one the top nations to potential engage in the nuclear trade with terrorists, tied with North Korea, and the hands down winner on where the next al Qaeda stronghold will [...]
Read more →This morning’s Daily Times carried a stunning headline for Pakistanis. Asif Ali Zardari, to clarify “the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan” stated that ”Obviously, the world is a safer place,” he said. “It could have been worse,” in an interview with the Washington Post on Saturday. Can I ask which world Zardari is talking [...]
Read more →Text of article in Dari entitled “Pakistan acts, America does not respond” by Afghan independent secular daily newspaper Hasht-e Sobh on 25 September. The crash of an unmanned US drone in Pakistan’s tribal areas makes it clear enough that Pakistan will not allow American forces to continue operations against al-Qa’idah and Taleban in those areas. [...]
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