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Islamabad wants US apology delayed until mid-March

 25 February, 2012 02:05:00
while it is not time for one more apology for the US, the delay is welcome for Gen Kayani because with all the attention fixed on the snowballing anti- American riots in Kabul, he doesn’t want to lose the mileage that would come his way. There is convergence of mutuality of interests. ...
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Gilani asks Afghan Taliban to start talks with the Karzai

 25 February, 2012 05:00:00
Poreg View: This is a welcome development since Islamabad is known to exercise influence on the Afghan Taliban as its hander. It is also an ...
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Taliban ‘optimistic’ about peace talks with U.S.

 13 January, 2012 04:30:00
Poreg View: Though the Washington Times report says prisoner exchange will follow once the Taliban deal is done with the US, there are conflicting views ...
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Tri-nation summit in Islamabad tailored for Zardari’s audience

 16 February, 2012 12:05:00
Poreg View: As our headline suggests, the three nation summit President Asif Ali Zardari is hosting in Islamabad has a very limited objective since there ...
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U.S. resumes drone campaign in Pakistan

 12 January, 2012 07:25:00
Pakistan army chief Kayani is not against drone strikes, which for him, are no more than outsourcing security drill in Waziristan. His anti-American plank is more a reaction to CIA planting hundreds of Raymond Daviess to keep tabs on ISI, and to CIA using Ambassador Haqqani for visas to these Davies without GHQ knowledge. This the reason why Americans have shown no undue concern over the coup rumours and give the impression of going along with the Pakistani concerns....
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Afghans are turning away from Pakistan Madrasas

 21 December, 2011 09:33:00
The problem of Taliban insurgency is as much a political problem as it is a side affect of educational backwardness and the stranglehold of the religious orthodoxy...
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Bonn II - Why Afghans are not going gaga..?

 16 December, 2011 09:45:00
Much water has flown into the Kabul River in the past decade. The Taliban, far from being vanquished’, is very much in the reckoning. The US is battered by the dollar meltdown and is working over time to quickly pull out of the country. And it is doing the unthinkable, at least after the 9/11. It is trying to reach out to the Taliban for a political solution to the Afghan imbroglio and to mainstream the Taliban in the process. ...
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Afghanistan: US drawdown plan will slow down

 08 December, 2011 11:00:00
This is not the first time when the ground view from Kabul differed with the strategists close to President Obama. Both Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Gen. David Petraeus, who preceded Gen Allen, differed with the plans of their supreme commander in Washington. .....Obama’s race for a second term in the White House will be fought as much on his domestic achievements as overseas ‘actions’- a category that will see the Afghan war become a political football in the November 2012 election....
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Pakistan Blamed for Afghan Shia Shrine Atrocity

 07 December, 2011 09:10:00
The Afghans are concerned that for the first time in the Afghan history an important day like Ashura was used for drawing blood of unarmed worshipers. The suicide bombing of Abu Fazl shrine not only highlights the hatred of perpetrators’ for the people of Afghanistan but also their contempt of Islam, as President Hamid Karzai put it....
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Bonn conference pledges international support to Afghanistan

 06 December, 2011 10:30:00
Pakistan’s absence at Bonn-II has underscored the hiccups in achieving a reconciliation i Afghanistan that leads to an end to the resistance by the Taliban and other forces opposing NATO presence....
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