While Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is in the United States discussing U.S. military strikes across Pakistan’s border, Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani is on a far less publicized trip to China to talk about defense cooperation. The timing may be coincidental, but the potential implications of the United States and China playing competing roles [...]
Read more →10,000 Indian troops are stationed in Afghanistan under the garb of supervising construction of road Jalalabad-Port Chahbahar project that has now been completed. Whereas India has officially declared 14 Indian consulates in Afghanistan, on ground they have 107 in which 20 intelligence units are burning their midnight oil to destabilize Pakistan After 9/11 CIA bought [...]
Read more →So many events in the news, so little time to write about them. Global warming deserves a look, politics never ends, the Russia/Georgia thing gets more intractable all the time. Iran is always fun, the Russians are going to sell them new anti-aircraft missiles, as if to say to Bush “Nyah, nyah, nyah.” Still, today’s [...]
Read more →I spotted this online today and thought… if only the roles reversed… The U.S. State Department lodged a sharp protest over ongoing Pakistani missile strikes and ground raids today, saying the Islamic Republic was violating American sovereignty. “We will try to convince Pakistan…to respect [the] sovereignty of the United States – and God willing, we [...]
Read more →Another story picked up from the March issue of Harpers that is interesting (and very long reading) about how the US and Bush have given rise to a different democracy in Muslim countries. ————————————- Among the precepts of the “Bush Doctrine”—as loyalists to the current president call the set of foreign-policy principles by which they, [...]
Read more →This is a hoarding for a pizza place in New Zealand that says it all…..
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