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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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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An op-ed piece from Joe Biden in the New York Times.
The next president will have to rally America and the world to “fight them over there unless we want to fight them over here.” The “over there” is not, as President Bush has claimed, Iraq, but rather the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
That is where [...]
This morning’s Daily Times carried a stunning headline for Pakistanis. Asif Ali Zardari, to clarify “the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan” stated that ”Obviously, the world is a safer place,” he said. “It could have been worse,” in an interview with the Washington Post on Saturday. Can I ask which world Zardari is talking [...]
Text of article in Dari entitled “Pakistan acts, America does not respond” by Afghan independent secular daily newspaper Hasht-e Sobh on 25 September.
The crash of an unmanned US drone in Pakistan’s tribal areas makes it clear enough that Pakistan will not allow American forces to continue operations against al-Qa’idah and Taleban in those areas. Meanwhile, [...]
