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An Open Letter to President Obama About Afghanistan From William R. Polk

The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Afghanistan War, Nato, Afghan Election, Tribes, Durand Line, Kabul, Middle East, Taliban, Policy, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Chicago, Afghan Strategy, Un, South Waziristan, Soviet Union, Pentagon, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Troop Levels, Terrorism, Pashtun, Foreign Policy, Kashmir, Insurgency, Al Qaida, State Department, Pashtunwali, Soviet Afghan War, Counterinsurgency, World News

I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...

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Stop Terror, Let's Talk

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Dr Manmohan Singh, Kashmir, Hillary Clinton, India, Terrorism, Sharm El-Sheikh, Pakistan, Yusuf Raza Gilani, World News
Pinaki Bhattacharya

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh of India could not have chosen the time and place better for sending the very public message to Pakistan. On Thursda...

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Bear Kills Kashmir Militants Hiding In Cave, Say Indian Police

BBC NEWS | Altaf Hussain | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Mohammad Amin, India, Bear Attacks Militants, Bashir Ahmed, Saifullah, Bear, Cave, Pakistan, Den, Bear Den, Wild Bear, Bear Attacks, Kashmir, Qaiser, World News

A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say. Two other militants escaped, one of them ba...

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Getting the Vietnam Analogy Right in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Nazi Germany, President Obama, Lebanon, Iran, Hitler, China, History, Muslim, Saudi Arabia, Nato, Vietnam War, John Kennedy, Chechnya, Munich, Analogies, Czechoslovakia, Syria, Xinjiang, West Germany, South Vietnam, Hamas, Soviet Union, Hizbollah, Afghanistan War, Al Quaeda, Kashmir, Shiites, Iraq War, Communism, North VIetnam, Taliban, India, Lyndon Johnson, Cuba, Ospolitik, Detente, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan: Collateral Damage From Paris to Punjab

Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: U.S. Troops, Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir, 9/11, India, Heroin, Collateral Damage, Paris, Afghanistan War, President Obama Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, World News
Mira Kamdar

I have seen what is antiseptically known as collateral damage from this war in two unlikely places: the city of Paris and the countryside of rural Punjab.

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Rukhsana Kausar, Farmer's Daughter, Disarms Terrorist And Shoots Him Dead With AK47

Telegraph | Dean Nelson | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: Kashmir, India, Rukhsana Kausar, Terrorism, World News

Rukhsana Kausar, 21, was with her parents and brother in Jammu and Kashmir when three gunmen, believed to be Pakistani militants, forced their way in ...

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What Have We Done to Democracy?

Arundhati Roy | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Elections, Democracy, Democracy Promotion, India Pakistan Relations, Pakistan Democracy, Kashmir, Booker Prize, World News
Arundhati Roy

What happens now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximizing profit?

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Dear America: Letter From a Muslim-American

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, America, Middle East, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Iraq, Muslim, Barack Obama, Kashmir, Muslim Moderates, Despots, Media and Islam, CIA Afghanistan, Muslim World, Islamic Radicalism, Obama Muslim World, Politics News
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din

America, you are part of us and we are a part of you. The actions of a violent minority have for too long trumped the selfless and righteous actions of the moderate majority who do good in the name of Islam.

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Pakistan's Ordinance Giving Internal Political Autonomy To Northern Jammu, Kashmir Means Little

Madhavi Bhasin | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Spotlight-on-Pakistan, Spotlight on Pakistan, Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Ordinance, Sop, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu, Kashmir, Line of Control, India, India-Pakistan, Loc, World News
Madhavi Bhasin

Pakistan's Empowerment and Self-Governance Ordinance falls short of local demands and provides only a change in nomenclature rather than genuine political reform.

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Pakistan's India Infatuation

Saad Khan | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Obama Pakistan, Foreign Aid, Isi, India, Richard Holbrooke, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Islamic Extremists, Pakistan India Relations, Advocacy, Kashmir, World News
Saad Khan

India is not a threat to Pakistan, Islamic militancy is. If Pakistan's leaders are still not able to overcome their 'infatuation' with India, then it could prove disastrous for regional stability.

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World In Photos, July 2, 2009

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Russian Nuclear Submarine, Wimbledon, Slideshow, Kashmir Protest, Russian Nuclear Sub, Serena Williams, Tiger Airways, India Protest, Medvedev, Anti-India Protest, Wimbledon Tennis, Williams at Wimbledon, Kashmir, West Tigers NRL, Nuclear Submarine, Gorilla, World Photos, World in Photos, World News

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

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World In Photos: June 30, 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: France, Slideshow, Yemen Crash, Nice, Iraq, India, Lebanon, Serbia, Kashmir, World Photos, World in Photos, World News

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

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Kashmiri Protesters Fired On By Indian Police

AP | MUNEEZA NAQVI | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: India, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Kashmir, Kashmir Protesters, Kashmir Conflict, Kashmiri, Indian Police, Indian Protesters, Indian Protests, World News

NEW DELHI — Security forces opened fire on protesters in Indian Kashmir on Monday, wounding at least seven people, including two critically, in ...

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Pakistan's Problem with Taliban Denial

Olivia Sterns | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Denial, Lahore, Husain Haqqani, Taliban Lahore, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pakistan Taliban, Lahore Attacks, Taliban, Taliban Pakistan, Kashmir, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Olivia Sterns

In the long-term, defeating the Taliban will depend not just on resolving the causes they use to recruit, but on uprooting popular denial.

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Missing the Mark on Indo-Pak

Arvin Bahl | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Congress Party, India, Pakistan, Kashmir, World News
Arvin Bahl

The problem in South Asia is not Indian intransigence, as the New York Times editorial board seems to think, but the policies espoused by Pakistan's military establishment.

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Zerobridge and the MTV Iggy Initiative "Change: Kashmir- Help Restore Peace to Paradise"

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: India, Human Rights, Entertainment, Mtv, Activism, Pakistan, Music, Zerobridge, Peace, Barack Obama, Kashmir, Booker Prize, World News
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din

The 60-year dispute over Kashmir is one of the most neglected conflicts in the world, and the perspectives of the very people living there are often marginalized by saber-rattling politics between India and Pakistan,

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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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Holbrooke: We Won't Press India for Peace with Pakistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Admiral Mike Mullen, India, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, Kashmir, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

What price, exactly, would we pay for pressing India for compromise that would be more expensive than the lives of US troops and the lives of Afghan and Pakistani civilians?

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News From the Muddled East

Murray Fromson | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: India, New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Golan Heights, Frank Stanton, Middle East, Israel, Syria, Kashmir, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News
Murray Fromson

Resolution of the Golan Heights problem could lead to a settlement of other thorny issues that are part of the Middle East process.

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"Mission Accomplished" Bush Gets the Last Laugh in Iraq and Afghanistan

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, " Project for New American Century, "Afghan Arabs, Pakistan, General Raymond Odierno, George W. Bush, Xe, General David Petraeus, "Soft Power, Obama Administration, Iraq, Robert Kagan, Pnac, Dick Cheney, Kbr, Blackwater, Kashmir, Iraq Policy, Middle East. Baghdad, Inter-Services Intelligence, President Barack Obama, Isi, Halliburton, Iraq Occupation, Afghan Policy, Afghanistan War, The Foreign Policy Initiative, Thomas Ricks, " General Pervez Musharraf, " Iraq War, Afghanistan, India, William Kristol, "Mission Accomplished, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

For years, George W. Bush has been roundly criticized, even lampooned, for declaring "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. But maybe declaring "Mission Accomplished" was not that crazy after all.

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Afghanistan: The Four Questions

Robert Naiman | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Taliban, Negotiations, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Kashmir, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

It matters little in the big scheme of things how many new troops President Obama announces. If there is no real change in policy, new troops won't accomplish anything.

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Kashmir Battle 'Leaves 25 Dead'

BBC NEWS | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Kashmir Fighting, India, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Kashmir Battle, Kashmir, World News

The Indian army says 17 militants have been killed in a five-day-long gun battle with security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir....

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Obama Administration Omits Kashmir From Envoy's Mandate

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Extremists, India, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Kashmir, World News
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din

Like the conflicts in Afghanistan and Palestine, the Kashmir conflict is one that is talked about in hundreds of thousands of mosques -- not jut in the region, but throughout the world.

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A Silk Road to Obama's Success

Sunil Adam | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaida, Islamic Radicalism, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Kashmir, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Afghanistan, India, World, China, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, State Department, Barack Obama, World News
Sunil Adam

The Obama administration seems oblivious of the only option it has to solve the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan without broadening the crisis -- involving China in the conflict resolution strategy.

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Kashmir Voting Ends With Clashes Between Protesters And Police

AP | AIJAZ HUSSAIN | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

Read More: Sringagar, India, India Kashmir, Voting in Kashmir, Kashmir Elections Clashes, Kashmir Elections, Pakistan Kashmir, Muslims, South Asia, Hindus, Kashmir, World News

SRINAGAR, India — Hundreds of protesters chanting pro-independence slogans clashed with soldiers in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir o...

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