Geopolitics
Terrorists on the run after killing of Ilyas Kashmiri?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2011
The USA’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has not allowed the death of Osama bin Laden in a raid by US naval commandos at his hide-out at Abbottabad on May 2,2011,to slow down its hunt for...
Developments in Pakistan
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 Jun , 2011
The Islamic world is in turbulence for some time now; whether these movements will lead to a more liberal order or will the religious groups that are lurking beneath the surface grab power once...
US-Pak Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: The Ritual & the Reality
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2011
Secret commitments by both the political and military leaderships to co-operate with the US in counter-terrorism, ritual denial of such commitments in public statements, dragging the feet in...
Headley’s Testimony: Points for action by India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2011
The detailed testimony of David Coleman Headley of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in the case against Tahawuur Hussain Rana and some others being tried in absentia before a...
Pakistan’s China pavilion after the USA’s ‘Package of Tangible...
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 May , 2011
Why does Islamabad, Washington’s best ally, so often give sleepless nights to US officials? One can argue that it is a question of reciprocity. The latest one: the Americans made fools of the...
China: All the way with Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 May , 2011
China has gone all the way with Pakistan in the difficult situation being faced by Pakistan in the aftermath of the Abbottabad raid by some US naval commandos on May 2, which led to the death...
All eyes on Gilani’s visit to China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2011
All eyes in Pakistan are on the four-day visit to China from May 17,2011, by Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani. The dates of the visit were finalized some weeks ago to enable him to participate...
Osama bin Laden: Significant pointers
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 May , 2011
It used to be said that Osama bin Laden moved around with a large number of bodyguards to protect him. They had instructions to kill him to prevent his being captured. It would be diificult for...
Can Pakistan unilaterally renounce US assistance?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2011
Can Pakistan unilaterally renounce US assistance in protest against the violation of its sovereignty by the US naval commandos who raided Osama bin Laden’s house at Abbottabad on the night of...
Did General Kayani and Pasha give shelter to Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2011
Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the present Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Gen.Nadeem Taj, who retired recently, and Lt.Gen. Ahmed ShujaPasha, who is on an year’s extension after having...
Pakistan: The cost of two-nation theory
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 06 May , 2011
Mohammed Ali Jinnah is on record, claiming that he brought about Pakistan single-handedly. Had he not been born would Pakistan exist today? Historians have always found the ‘Ifs’ of history...
Bin Laden’s reported death in Islamabad
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2011
In connection with news that Osama bin Laden has been killed in a missile strike—possibly in or near Islamabad— I am reproducing below an article written on June 28, 2010, on the hunt for him....
US Ambassador: Our cooperation has taken off
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2011
Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer while addressing AMCHAM Annual General Meeting at New Delhi said: We have had many big events this year and it seemed that Amcham was involved in most of them. From...
Incriminating spotlight on ISI in the US
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate has come under incriminating spotlight in the US as a result of the ongoing judicial proceedings in a Chicago court against Tahawwur...
China starts demonisation of Kirti Monastery Monks
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
The authorities of the Aba County in the Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of the Sichuan province where the Kirti monastery is located, have started a demonisation campaign against the...
Third Jihadi Attack on Pak Navy since Lal Masjid Raid
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
Two Pakistani naval personnel— a commissioned officer of the rank of Sub-Lieutenant and a sailor— were among four persons killed in two separate but coordinated explosions in Karachi on April...
Pak gimmicks deprive Baloch of a real solution
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2011
In what is being portrayed as yet another attempt by the Pakistani government to appease Balochistan, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Parvez Ashfaq Kayani has announced to replace...
Suppression of monks in Sichuan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
Reports received from the Sichuan province of China speak of the arrest of about 300 Buddhist monks belonging to the Kirti monastery in the Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of the province...
Pakistan Armed Forces: The Other Pillar
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
The Muslim League whose campaign led to the birth of Pakistan could hardly be called a grass roots party until after 1940 when the Pakistan Resolution was adopted. The League might have operated...
Worsening Violence in Syria
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2011
” Good Friday” on April 22,2011, saw violent protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad all over Syria. For the first time since the protest movement started in the southern city...