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EDLs up by $9.5bn to hit 1/3 of GDP

ISLAMABAD: Rising $9.512 billion in last one-and-a-half-year Pakistan’s outstanding external debts and liabilities have reached to almost one-third of the country’s GDP.
At end of December 2009, country’s total EDLs stood at unprecedented $55.675 billion or 32 percent of GDP, while in June 2008 these stood at 46.16 billion dollars (27.6 percent of GDP), the State [...]

March 8, 2010 Business 0 Comments

Pakistan seeks identity of American suspect

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence officials are trying to establish the identity of an American militant suspect arrested in Pakistan, but doubts grew Monday that he is al-Qaida’s U.S.-born spokesman.
Pakistani officials have contradicted each other on whether the suspect is Adam Gadahn, 31, who has appeared in videos threatening the West. Two intelligence officers and a senior government [...]

March 8, 2010 World 0 Comments

The World Doesn’t Have a Pakistan Nukes Problem

….It Has a David Albright Problem!
As AFP tells us, the Institute for Science and International Security just published a report on Pakistan’s nuclear program that seems designed to pour gasoline on the “the Pakistani nuclear program is outta control” story.
And, when you look at the story, there isn’t a whole lot of there there.
The commercial [...]

June 2, 2009 News, World 0 Comments

Pakistan Tells America To Stop Supporting Insurgents Inside Pakistan

This report, first published in August 2008, is reproduced here to provide context to the determined Pakistani military operation against terrorists coming from Afghanistan. Pakistan’s largest English-language daily, The News, ran this on its front page, written by Kamran Khan, an investigative reporter who has worked for The Washington Post. The mainstream Am-Brit media continues [...]

June 1, 2009 World 0 Comments

Tribesmen forming militias to expel Taliban: Army

KHWAZAKHELA: Tribesmen near the Swat valley are raising militias to prevent the Taliban from expanding their influence in the region, a senior military commander said on Friday.
Major-General Sajjad Ghani, who is leading the offensive in the upper part of Swat valley, said people in neighbouring Kalam valley and Lower Dir district were raising their own [...]

May 22, 2009 Defence 0 Comments

Afghanistan-Pakistan: Where Empires Go to Die

Under the pretext of responding to the September 11, 2001, attacks in America, the United States and Great Britain invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. They dubbed this invasion Operation Enduring Freedom. President Bush 41 told the American people that the US strikes were,
“… designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base [...]

May 18, 2009 World 0 Comments

Pakistan in victory over Taliban in border area: commander

KHAR, Pakistan: Pakistan said on Saturday it had forced Taliban militants out of a key battleground in the global fight against extremism and boasted of major gains in another region bordering Afghanistan.
The six-month battle with Islamist insurgents in the remote Bajaur district is seen as pivotal to the country’s fight against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, [...]

March 2, 2009 Defence, World 0 Comments

Intelligence agency of Pakistan pivotal in war on terror

Contrary to the widespread theory, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency is a disciplined and professional organization that is playing a pivotal role in the global war on terrorism.
This organization has been crucial in bringing regional stability. Its contribution in the 1980s against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan could not be denied, and it operated cooperatively with [...]

February 17, 2009 Defence, World 0 Comments

US envoy conducts policy review in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan was to meet key leaders here Tuesday as part of a major US policy review aimed at turning around the war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in south Asia.
Richard Holbrooke, considered the architect of peace in Bosnia, was due to meet President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister [...]

February 10, 2009 Defence, World 0 Comments

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

To the Honourable Mr President,
President Barack Hussein Obama.
We wish you are in the best of health and high-spirits.
Mr. President, we are writing to you as a group of concerned American, foreign, and Pakistani students who would like to bring your attention to the world’s longest-standing flashpoint. It is our belief that a watershed has been [...]

February 5, 2009 News, World 0 Comments

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