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Book Review: Ahmed Rashid’s Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

 April 14th, 2012      No Comments »

Posted in: Abbottabad, Afghanistan, Haqqani terror network, India, Intelligence, Islam, Jihadists, Pakistan, South Asia, Strategic Affairs of South Asia, United States, Usama Bin Laden
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Allah, Army, and America used to be catchphrases to describe the internal political dynamics, as well as the foreign policy behavior, of Pakistan in the previous several decades.  That reality has undergone palpable erosion regarding the influence of the United States on Pakistan under the presidency of Barack Obama.  That is certainly not good news [...]

Pakistan and the United States: A Permanent Parting of the Ways?

 December 26th, 2011      No Comments »

Posted in: Afghanistan, Arab Awakening, Haqqani terror network, Islam, Pakistan, South Asia

The deteriorating U.S.-Pakistan ties do not seem to have a stable new nadir since the assassination of Usama Bin-Laden by the U.S. Special Forces last May.  It seems to be finding new low points each week.  Pakistan’s foremost journalist, Ahmed Rashid, states that the Army of his native land has issued orders to “treat the [...]

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