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The tribal areas of Pakistan (FATA) are turning out to be the biggest headache for both the US and the fledgling Pakistan government. Experts have been pointing out that the area is slipping out of the hands of Islamabad. Musharraf had tried sending in...
As President Bush nears the end of his term, it seems the vow he had made in 2001 to finish off Osama bin Laden will remain unfulfilled. The reason is the Al Qaeda has found a safe haven in Pakistan's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Security...
As far the tribal areas problem in Pakistan is concerned, the arrival of a democratic government at Islamabad seems to have made no difference. The fact is the politicians are so busy arguing over the removal of Musharraf and the re-instatement of...
A vulnerable peace deal is in place in the Swat region of Pakistan's northwest frontier province. For months Pakistani security forces have been fighting Islamic radical groups resulting in hundreds of deaths in the region. As the peace deal is in place...
In a chilling message to the people of Pakistan and to the rest of the world, former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has hinted that President Musharraf could be hanged in the near future. Addressing a mass rally at the stroke of dawn on saturday...
The political scenario in Pakistan showed its ugly side yet again, with the former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif publicly acknowledging that his Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) is pulling out from the newly formed coalition government as no consensus...
What Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte will tell President Bush is going to make him go red in the face. Bush is not used to changing his mind on any issue. On Iraq, he makes daily proclamations that things are improving and that the US will...
The new Pakistani government under the leadership of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will review Pakistan’s role in the US-led war against terror. Deputy US Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher have...
What we had been fearing all along is happening. Benazir Bhutto's husband seems most likely to become the country's next prime minister. After Benazir died the question that had arisen was " after Benazir, who?" It was not an easy question to...
Anti-Musharraf forces have won the elections in Pakistan. Both Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif have been at the receiving end of Musharraf's political games. One was thrown into prison, the other was exiled. One can hardly blame them if they now...
It is pretty much clear as to who is going to come to power in Pakistan. It is going to be the PPP-PML(Nawaz) combine. The deputy chief of PPP, Makhdoom Amin Fahim will be probably the new Premier as he is experienced. But the real power will lie in...
The result of much awaited elections in Pakistan are about to be revealed and the supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party whose leader, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated on Dec. 27, and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the faction led by Nawaz Sharif have...
Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf faces an unprecedented opposition in his country ahead of the National Assembly elections on Monday. Although this is not a Presidential election, President Musharraf's fate probably rests on the results of the...
A week from today Pakistan will vote for a new National Assembly and four provincial assemblies in what is being described as the most important election in the country's political history since its independence from Britain. But after the tragic...
Benazir Bhutto's assassination is threatening to open up a Pandora's Box in Pakistani politics and that is what has concerned the Americans. President Musharraf is still the numero uno leader in the eyes of the White House, but at the same time...
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