Six years have gone by since the 'War bells' rang in Afghanistan. The US led attacks on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, otherwise christened 'The War on Terror', has assumed various themes at different times during this period. While the initial stages...
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Musharraf has finally taken off his military uniform. Tomorrow he will be sworn in as President again. Shedding the khakis must have been painful for the Pakistani general. Though his handpicked successor general Kiyani seems to be a...
It was recently pointed out that Bangladesh is being run by Mafioso-style leaders who do not care for the poor. Terrorists wax eloquent about the larger causes they profess to espouse, only to choose murder as the right path to silence all...
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Pakistan is at the crossroads. Either it will fall into an abyss of fundamentalist rule or will harness its people's power and defeat the rising threat from Islamists. The man who will decide that is army strongman, Pervez Musharraf....
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Negroponte might have urged Musharraf strongly to roll back the emergency but the US can do little beyond that. The wily Pakistani general, in a masterstroke, has converted all his cards into aces.
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He is again playing on...
Tensions in the Korean peninsula have reduced dramatically since the North decided to stop its nuclear weapons programmes in return for economic aid. South Korea's economic help towards its impoverished northern neighbour and international pressure to...
Ordinary Pakistanis on the street are getting disillusioned with the US. They had hoped that US being a democracy would understand their clamour for freedom and normal democratic politics in their country and push Musharraf to let go of power or at least...
In the few days old emergency ruling in Pakistan has troubled a lot the opponents of Prisident Pervez Musharraf who only wants to rule the country either winning Presidential election or taking oath as army chief again. In the recent political drama...
A nation which hates its own sons is lost. And we are not talking of any ordinary person, but of the legendary Imran Khan. A few years ago the whole of Pakistan went gaga over this man's cricketing. Now Pakistanis are mute spectators when President...
It is very difficult to know the true intentions of Pakistani politicians. Given the intense domestic and international spotlight on President Musharraf for imposing emergency, it is hard to conclude whether the President's decision is a...
Where is Pakistan's political mayhem heading for? President Musharraf seems adamant to continue with the emergency to get a stronghold of the Pakistani political powerbase. This ambition of the country's military strongman pits himself directly against...
The Philippines, since the 1970s, has been engulfed in armed conflicts with various well-organized insurgent groups that have cost thousands of lives across the country. The communist insurgency which began in 1969 is one of the longest running...
The Pakistani president Parvez Musharraf is under intense domestic and international pressure to restore democracy in the country. The imposition of emergency is a way by which President can consolidate his power in Pakistani politics - something...
General Musharraf will hold elections on January 9, 2008, under national emergency conditions. The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has eagerly welcomed this statement. She is scared stiff. Just in case Pakistan's nuclear weapons pass into the...
Pakistan, said to be the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, has the population of 165 million people in the country. The citizens are divided among several tribal and linguistic groups. The country may be called as a united entity only when we talk about...
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