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View from Pakistan: Today's Blast

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Swat, Pakistan Suicide Bombing, War on Terror, Northwestern Frontier Province, Pakistan, Checkpoints, Proxy War, Fata, Baluchistan, Punjab, British, International Islamic University, Tribal Areas, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Iran, Rawalpindi, South Waziristan, Sindh, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Afghanistan, India, Schools, Hillary Clinton, Nwfp, Universities, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.

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Keep Al Qaeda in Our Crosshairs

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Iran, Al Qaeda, Kabul, George Will, Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan, Pakistan Taliban, Obama, Afghanistan, Democrats, Fata, Mccrystal, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Obama has a very tough decision to make: whether or not to accept the troop level increase recommendation from his field commanders under mounting pressure from some prominent Congressional Democrats to reject it.

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Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban Leader, Targeted By Pakistan

DAWN.COM | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Mehsud, Baitullah Mehsud Targeted, Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud Pakistan, Pakistan War, Taliban, Fata, World News

ISLAMABAD: The government announced on Sunday that a 'decisive offensive' will be launched against Baitullah Mehsud, chief of the banned Tehrik-i-Tali...

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Solving Kashmir

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Boundaries, President Obama, Pakistan, United Nations, Summit Nuclear, National Boundaries, Obama, Afpak, China, Barack Obama, Kashmir, Foreign Policy, Chris Weigant, Pakistani, Swat Valley, British, India, Un, Fata, Partition, Line of Actual Control, Line of Control, Loc, Jammu, Lac, World News
Chris Weigant

If Pakistan and India could declare peace and accept a line through the region as their final national boundaries, it could pay off huge dividends in the fight against terrorists.

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Taliban's Popularity Linked To Perception It Will Lift Pakistanis From Poverty

Huffington Post Contributor | Emi Foulk | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: Swat Valley, Jihad, Punjab, Swat, Pakistan, Jihadism, Hillary Clinton, Fata, Taliban Swat Valley, Parag Khanna, Taliban, Talibanistan, World News

by Emi Foulk The swelling power of the Taliban in Pakistan - or "Talibanistan," as The Nation so pithily put it - has caused much alarm amongst Ameri...

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Denial-istan

Huffington Post Contributor | Farrukh Rehan | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: U.S., Taliban, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Failed State, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Taliban Swat Valley, Fata, Spotlight on Pakistan, World News

by Farrukh Rehan Every morning I roll out of bed and scan the papers on the net. Today, like most days, I find something distressing about Pakistan. ...

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Picking and Choosing Enemies in Afghanistan

Hedieh Mirahmadi | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Warlord, Afghanistan, Ansar Islam, Pashtun, Pakistan, Fata, Gulbuddin-Hekmatyar, Richard Holbrooke, Hizb-E-Islami, World News
Hedieh Mirahmadi

We cannot ignore the ideological underpinnings of our enemy and empower them to fight us another day. The question is how do we tell the difference between a warlord and a global jihadist.

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Selling War: Struggling to Make the Case to Fight Terrorism, Again.

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Yousaf Raza Gilani, Supplemental Budget, John Murtha, John Conyers, Congress, Lynn Woolsey, Atlantic-Council, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Terrorism, Pakistan, Hussain Haqqani, George W. Bush, President Obama, Taliban, Bush Unilateralism, Fata, Pashtun, Al Qaeda, Nato, Afpak, World News
Vikrum Aiyer

Obama's proposed tactics in the AfPak region have certainly been scrutinized, but truly vocal criticisms have maintained low decibel levels... until now.

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More Military Aid to Pakistan? Think Again...

Derek Flood | Posted 05.05.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Fata, Af-Pak, Nwfp, Pashtunistan, Islamabad-Pakistan, World News
Derek Flood

The United States must stop looking at the short term in Pakistan, as insurgencies are not a short term problem.

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Balancing the Equation: AfPak Security at the Expense of Governmental Stability

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Baluchistan-Province, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, President Obama, Asif Ali Zardari, Iraq, Sovereignty, Taliban, Fata, Al Qaeda, Police State, Cia, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, 60 Minutes, Milton Bearden, Nato, Afpak, World News
Vikrum Aiyer

Two tactics that Administration officials are entertaining in the region strongly beg the question as to whether Obama is placing a premium on security, at the expense of government stability.

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Extreme Conscription: Recruiting the Taliban for America's Fight

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Usaid, Department of Defense, Defectors, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Afpak Review, Swat Valley, Holbrooke, Afpak, Taliban, Gao, Fata, State Department, Bruce Riedel, World News
Vikrum Aiyer

While normally the US should exhaust all diplomatic channels, Obama should exercise great caution when it comes to talking with the Taliban, as it comes with one too many concerns.

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The Pakistani Monster

Wajahat Ali | Posted 04.08.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistani India, Swat, Pakistan, Obama Pakistan, Taliban, Sri Lankan Cricket Team, Fata, Zardari, World News
Wajahat Ali

The tempestuous relationship between the United States and Pakistan is akin to a sordid soap opera featuring a fickle, selfish lover and her unpredictable mistress prone to volatile tantrums.

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Pakistan's Tribal Areas 'Radicalized As Never Before'

The New York Review of Books | Posted 02.25.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Tribal Areas, Pakistan Afghan Border, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Taliban, Fata, Hamid Karzai, Nwf, Peshawar, Pakistan Burqa, Al Qaeda, North-West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan Girls Schools, World News

The relative calm in Iraq in recent months, combined with the drama of the US elections, has managed to distract attention from the catastrophe that i...

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Roadway Through the FATA

Ashley Bommer | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Waziristan, Youth, Missiles, U.S. Goverment, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sarhad Rural Support Programme, Vice President-Elect, Pakistani Center for Research and Security Studies, Joe Biden, British Territory, Warzone, Osama Bin Laden, Tribal Areas, Islamabad, Federall Administered Tribal Areas, Al Qaeda, Emissaries, Rural Support Programs, Below Poverty Line, Fata, Anti-Coalition Militias, Extremism, Bajaur, Srsp, Politics News
Ashley Bommer

While the enemy weaves in and out of the tribal areas, living and interacting with the people, we fight the war against Al Qaeda superficially through military airstrikes and covert operations.

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The Biggest Problem in Pakistan is the United States

Zia Mian | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Osama Bin-Laden, Musharraf, Terrorism, Pakistan, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Poll, Fata, Bush, Politics News
Zia Mian

Attacking al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan will only serve to strengthen the perception that the United States is at war with Pakistan and inevitably inflict more civilian casualties.

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