Monthly Archives: September 2008

Hamid Karzai with Fareed Zakaria

September 30, 2008 – 11:17 pm

A very interesting interview with the Mayor of Kabul, President of Afghanistan to the rest of the world, Hamid Karzai.
I find it interesting to listen to his change in position on Pakistan and its involvement with the war on terror. But what is more interesting is how deftly he avoids questions about corruption and warlords [...]

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Why Pakistan is Useful Just the Way it is - An Indian Perspective

September 30, 2008 – 1:50 pm

The Acorn says that now is the time to drop trade barriers with Pakistan.
Pakistan’s economy is in a tailspin. Since the second last thing that the international community wants in Pakistan is an economic meltdown, Friends of Pakistan are coming together to provide emergency foreign aid.
The “Friends of Pakistan” are “Britain, France, Germany, the United [...]

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Is Zardari Creating a New Dictatorship?

September 30, 2008 – 1:29 pm

I stumbled on this video from The Real News which gives a very interesting analysis of the powers that Zardari inherited from Musharraf. It’s an interesting interview about how the international powers that be have turned a blind eye to make sure that the War on Terror can continue at the US’s pace.

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Spec ops raids into Pakistan halted - Army Times

September 30, 2008 – 1:22 pm

This is a long article, but very much worth the read if you want to see the US Military admit that they made a strategic mistake with their cross-border attacks into Pakistan.
U.S. special operations forces have paused ground operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas, but military and civilian government officials differ over why the cross-border raids [...]

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Gen. David Petraeus: Pakistan Faces Threat to Existence

September 30, 2008 – 1:18 pm

LONDON - U.S. Gen. David Petraeus warned Monday that combat in Afghanistan could intensify in the coming months as the United States and NATO allies aggressively take on Taliban fighters attempting to hide and gather strength in the rugged terrain over winter.
After talks in London with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Petraeus said more troops [...]

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Rewind the “Attack Pakistan” Comment - Palin

September 30, 2008 – 1:14 pm

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Katie Couric had another exclusive interview tonight–one with both John McCain and his running Sarah Palin. And in the video above, Couric asks Palin about her remarks–made while getting a cheesesteak in Philadelphia, to a Temple University graduate student–saying the U.S. should cross the Afghanistan border to Pakistan (”If that’s what [...]

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Israel Should Quit Nearly All Occupied Land - Olmert

September 29, 2008 – 5:25 pm

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel should withdraw from nearly all territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war in return for peace with the Palestinians and Syria, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted on Monday as telling a newspaper.
Olmert, in a caretaker role since quitting on September 21, said he was breaking new ground in calling [...]

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Asif Zardari on CNN Late Edition

September 29, 2008 – 3:31 pm

Let’s see how many times the story has changed about whether Zardari & Co. were or were not supposed to be at the Marriott the night of the massive bombing. Posted below is President Zardari’s interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s Late Edition.

Can the kind readers of this blog remind us all of the different [...]

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Is Pakistan’s New President Up to the Job?

September 29, 2008 – 3:15 pm

Henry Chu has recently done a series of articles on Pakistan for the LA Times, but this one sheds an interesting light on Asif Ali Zardari as President of Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Only a year ago, Asif Ali Zardari was best known as the husband of Benazir Bhutto, a highflying businessman with a taste for [...]

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The Long Road to Chaos in Pakistan

September 29, 2008 – 10:49 am

Hours after a truck bomber slew 53 people last weekend at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, the country’s interior minister laid responsibility for the attack on Taliban militants holed up in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, the remote, wild region that straddles the border with Afghanistan.
“All roads lead to FATA,” Interior Minister [...]

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