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Why Pakistanis Don't Like Us: 'Crazy' Times in Islamabad

Rob Asghar | Posted 12.18.2009 | World

Read More: Bush Administration, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Pervez Musharraf, Obama Administration, Barack Obama, Pakistan Democracy, World News
Rob Asghar

Pakistani President Asif Zardari is being pressured to leave office in the wake of a high court ruling in Islamabad. This poses a dilemma for Washington as the U.S. government seeks to help stabilize Pakistan.

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Afghanistan -- the Sisyphus War

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan Troops, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Obama Afghanistan Troop Increase, Bil Clinton, Sisyphus, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

As Albert Camus once said, "The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back o...

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Pakistan Military and ISI Must Purge Ranks

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Pervez Musharraf, Inter-Intelligence Services, Pakistan, Isi, Asad Durrani, World News
Steve Clemons

This is Pakistan's fight but it has bearing on all of its allies and partners. Tolerating a Pakistan security structure that is unwilling to exploit every lead to shut down internal spies is not an option.

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Musharraf Admits Secret Deal With Taliban Backfired

ANI | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

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LAHORE: Ex-Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has admitted that his government's secret agreement with the Taliban had backfired. The Taliban had mi...

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Musharraf Admits U.S. Aid Diverted To Strengthen Defense Against India

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.15.2009 | World

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Former president Pervez Musharraf says the US military aid given to Pakistan during his tenure was used to strengthen defences against India. The mon...

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Musharraf's Emergency Rule Illegal, Pakistan Court Rules

Maria Tirmizi | Posted 08.31.2009 | Home

Read More: General Pervez Musharraf, Spotlight-on-Pakistan, Emergency Rule in Pakistan, Spotlight on Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan Emergency Rule, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Supreme Court, Musharraf, Musharraf-Emergency-Rule, Home News
Maria Tirmizi

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has declared the November 3rd, 2007 actions of former president Pervez Musharraf extra-judicial, illegal and unconstitutional.

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Musharraf 2007 Emergency Rule Declared Illegal By Pakistani Court

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state of emergency former President Pervez Musharraf imposed in 2007 was unconstituti...

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Musharraf Treason Case Declined By Pakistani Court

AP | MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's top court on Thursday turned down a request to launch a treason case against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf, while th...

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Summoning Musharraf To Court Sends Out A "Crucial" Message For Pakistan

Maria Tirmizi | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

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Maria Tirmizi

The development has historic significance in a country where Martial Law has been imposed four times, each one accompanied by a nod from a submissive Supreme Court.

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Musharraf Summoned By Pakistani Court Over Judges Firing

AP | MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's top court has summoned former President Pervez Musharraf to explain his 2007 firing of several dozen independent-minded j...

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Sharif Acquitted: Pakistani Court Dismisses 1999 Hijacking Charge, Lifts Ban Against Running For Office

AP | RASOOL DAWAR and MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

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MIR ALI, Pakistan — Pakistani fighter jets flattened a suspected Taliban hide-out in the northwest early Saturday, killing six associates of a t...

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17,000 Troops? What's Really Behind the Thinking?

Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

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Paul Fitzgerald

Whether it realizes it or not, Washington has placed itself in a fight for its life in Afghanistan, just the way the Soviets did.

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Washington Has Created A Myth Of 'Talibanistan': Pepe Escobar

Asia Times Online | Pepe Escobar | Posted 06.03.2009 | World

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Apocalypse Now. Run for cover. The turbans are coming. This is the state of Pakistan today, according to the current hysteria disseminated by the Bara...

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A Primer on Pakistan: Why It Matters

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Opposition, Obama Pakistan Policy, Pakistan Democracy, Pakistan, Pakistan Us Relations, Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, Pervez Musharraf, World News
Rob Asghar

The biggest reason that Pakistan is relevant is because it has somewhere between 50 and 90 nukes, and the powerful army has many leaders who sympathize with the Taliban

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Islamabad Wire: Democracy Defeats Mob Politics in Pakistan

Farahnaz Ispahani | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

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Farahnaz Ispahani

With the issue that divided liberal democratic forces for several months settled, Pakistan can now focus on its real problems. Let it be said that in March, 2009 we chose democracy over mob rule.

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Pakistan Celebrates Restoration Of Chief Justice

New York Times | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

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It was a day of rejoicing, of drum playing, and of smiling at strangers. Pakistan's chief justice had just been reinstated after a two-year struggle, ...

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Zardari's Weakness Exposed By Pakistan Riots

Financial Times | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

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Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary's return as chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, two years after his dismissal by Pervez Musharraf, the then militar...

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Pakistan Police Arrest Long March Activists

GroundReport | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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GroundReport

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the global citizen reporting platform. By Imran Schah Islamabad, Pakistan- Police have started to crack d...

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Pakistan: Crackdown On Protests Continues

nytimes.com | JANE PERLEZ | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The civilian government has banned a national protest march and arrested hundreds of political workers , evoking for many Pakis...

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Pakistan's Long March: Help Report On It

The Huffington Post | Chris Nelson | Posted 04.11.2009 | World

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Lawyers and opposition political parties to the current Pakistani government, led by Nawaz Sharif, are planning a march from Karachi to Islamabad this...

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Pak Army, Opposition Gun For Asif Ali Zardari

ibnlive.in.com | Parrull / CNN | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

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New Delhi: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is facing one crisis after another. Reports on Monday claimed Zardari has been given an ultimatum by ...

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A Peek at America's Possible Future Pakistan Policy

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

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Ali A. Rizvi

If America once turned on the Afghan allies that helped it defeat the Soviets, many Pakistanis feel, what would stop it from turning on Pakistan?

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Sharif Brothers Banned From Contesting Elections By Pakistani Court

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Supreme Court banned the country's most popular opposition leader and his brother from contesting elections, igniting fre...

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Will Afghanistan Become President Obama's War?

Eric Margolis | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Gaza, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, 9/11, Obama, Taliban, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Mujahideen, Al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Communism, Bagram, Al Qaida, Pervez Musharraf, Israel, Muslim, Iraq, Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union, World News
Eric Margolis

In a stunning historic irony, while U.S. troops and CIA teams were turning over ever rock in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden, the gravest national security threat was on Wall Street.

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Back to the Future in Pakistan

Shuja Nawaz | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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Shuja Nawaz

As 2007 was lurching toward a messy end in Pakistan, a documentary film suddenly caught much attention inside the country and abroad, especially among the diaspora Pakistanis.

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