Not saying that it comes as a surprise, but another Democrat has tied conditions to military aid going to Pakistan. Jane Harman, California Democrat has placed a new bill before the House of Representatives that requires the Government of Pakistan to give unfettered access to Abdul Qadeer Khan and assurances that he will continue to [...]
Read more →Daniel Markey, senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote an interesting piece in Foreign Policy magazine called “Zardari’s War.” Markey sets forth a clear analysis of the current situation in Pakistan and where we could be heading if the political and domestic unrest continues. This time, it [...]
Read more →US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, publicly stated that “As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base.” At a time when Pakistan’s new leadership is facing problems of its own with the economy and terrorism, this revelation could shake the Pakistani nation. Quoting from the Chicago [...]
Read more →In a shocking revelation, an army officer, one of the 452 witnesses in the September 29 Malegaon blast case, has revealed in his statement that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had a grand design to split India into smaller independent countries by 2015. According the statement, the officer had attended one of the meetings held [...]
Read more →As the final days tick down on the worst President of the United States, it seems that history has already started judging his legacy. Today’s Guardian has a couple of interesting pieces both about the Bush White House. David Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary, writes that: The terrorist attacks in Mumbai seven weeks ago sent shock [...]
Read more →I found this letter on the Washington Post website and thought that it gives great understanding of why the US was the only member of the UN Security Council to abstain from the vote for a ceasefire yesterday: In November, The Post accurately described the Mumbai attacks as a massacre [editorial, Nov. 29]. Last week, [...]
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