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Memogate- The War Within Pakistan

 06 January, 2012 02:10:00
The same Mansoor Ijaz later made a statement that the chief of ISI, Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, had gone to some Gulf countries to seek support for a military coup in Pakistan but this statement was ignored. If Ijaz’s first statement was as credible as to demand resignation of Hussain Haqqani how can his second statement be less credible? ...
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Public Outrage In Pakistan On Tap

 20 December, 2011 02:25:00
There is no spontaneity. The protests are indeed staged by the religious fringe on the orders of the military establishment through its various foot soldiers in the Militancy Incorporated....
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Ijaz phantom haunts Haqqani, Zardari...

 03 December, 2011 09:25:00
Who will blink first – Kayani or Zardari? It is possible that while the family loyalist- Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Reza Gilani does the tough talking, Zardari will keep the channels with the GHQ and Pentagon open for any exigency....
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Pakistan's Supreme Court orders probe into Memogate

 31 December, 2011 01:54:00
The Memo-gate has its origins in May when President Zardari sent a SOS to Washington to deliver a pep talk to Gen Kayani. And in the failure of the Memo authors to factor in the reality that Washington doesn’t enjoy any special leverage with Rawalpindi after Operation Geronimo. Also that Gen Kayani and his GHQ Shura have scripted a new equation with Pentagon by cashing in on the American concerns and vulnerabilities in what is essentially an election year for President Obama....
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The Exiled Pakistani Warrior

 03 November, 2011 04:20:00
His theme is always brief: hate and anger towards the US, the West and India, not always in that order. He has appeared on all major US TV channels and the BBC more than once and almost every month one or two leading newspapers in the West publish interviews with him. The media in Pakistan has never shown veneration towards him but today it dutifully keeps the readers posted up-to-date with Musharraf speak....
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US ban on Pak-Libya Holding Company to hurt ties

 21 August, 2011 08:30:00
Officially Pak- Libya is styled as a DFI with an authorized capital of Pakistan Rupees Four Billion. But its structure, involvement in energy and IT sectors and above all the fact that it had its genesis in the charismatic Bhutto era lend credence to the view that Pak-Libya is not just another joint venture.Pakistan army is aligned with the company through the old boy network....
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Nepal pins hopes on Baburam Bhattarai

 29 August, 2011 12:50:00
Son of a poor farmer from Western Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai was known as a 'wonder kid' in his childhood and youth. He is not a conventional Marxist hard-liner. He enjoys a broad based support than his own party chief Prachanda with whom his differences are a matter of public record and animated media discourse. Academic excellence, clean image, administrative acumen and above all pragmatism are his USP. ...
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India, Pakistan walk the talk on substantive dialogue

 28 July, 2011 03:35:00
Since Shah Mahmood Qureshi almost derailed the dialogue process with his grandstanding last year, there has been a change in the outlook of the Pakistani military leadership. Pressed into a tight corner by its deteriorating relationship with Washington after the killing of Osama bin Laden, neither the Pakistani government nor its army chief, Gen Pervez Kayani would favour a hawkish stance on the dialogue process with India. More over, a fresh controversy with India would only add to the current difficulties with Washington which wants Islamabad to give its attention to the war against terror....
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Indo-Pak Talks: Occasion For Fashion Statement By Pak Minister...?

 27 July, 2011 10:35:00
Indian TV cameras were focused on her dress and on the fashion touches - a Hermes black Birkin handbag, a string of pearls and high black heeled shoes. One Page One report in a leading English daily said Khar ‘proved to be a spot-the-brand delight for the fash frat’. The glamour-struck modern media that did not care to ask how serious a politician Khar is but she said the ‘mindset’ in Pakistan has changed. And went on to equate the Samjhauta Express bomb blast with Mumbai’s 26/11. and termed India’s case on 26/11 as dated....
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