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Pakistan’s Generals are marching toward another disaster
The military’s approach reflects a familiar pattern: engaging in external aggression to mask internal decay and disarray.
Radical Islamists on the upswing in Bangladesh and Pakistan
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, October 28 – Radical Islamists are gaining ground in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Pakistan, they are getting more organised, militant and terroristic, while in Bangladesh, they are expanding their ideological reach, a development which could reshape domestic electoral outcomes and relations...
India’s bonhomie with Taliban could help rein in Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan
The Al Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and its cognate Jihadi groups are based in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Wars rarely achieve their objectives
Wars help foreground issues, send a telling message to the adversary and serve political ends at home and abroad but the issues that led to the war remain unaddressed.
Pakistan and Afghanistan announce immediate ceasefire after talks in Doha
Doha, October 19 (Dawn) – Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire following high-level negotiations in Doha, where both sides also decided to establish a permanent mechanism to ensure lasting peace and stability, state-run PTV News reported on Sunday. Amid heightened tensions along...
Pros and cons of India’s outreach to the Taliban
The 6-day visit of the Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to India earlier this week came under heavy fire from those who found the bonhomie between India and the Taliban distasteful. But it cannot be denied that there were economic and strategic gains to...
Pakistan Jamiat leader Fazlur Rehman calls for Pak-Afghan truce
Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan), October 17 (Express Tribune) – Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Thursday that fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan was not in the interest of either country and urged that, along with a ceasefire, there should also be restraint in...
Issue of cross border terrorism precipitates Pak-Afghan armed conflict.
By P.K. Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, October 14 – Bad relations between Pakistan and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan nosedived towards a breaking point last weekend. An armed conflict broke out between the two, with Pakistan capturing 19 Afghan posts inside Afghanistan. Many Afghan Taliban militants were killed and...
Taliban minister’s message from Indian soil to Pakistan on terrorism
New Delhi, October 10 (NDTV) – Terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad have long operated from Afghan soil. But the Taliban has wiped out all terrorists in the last four years, claimed visiting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi during his India visit, advising Pakistan...
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