Pakistan needs to retain a strong alliance with Afghanistan, no matter who is in power, more than it needs the US.
Pakistan Taliban
Bin Laden — bad news alive, worse news dead
My grudge against this war on terror is greater than ever, and why should it not be? This war on terror has done more damage to Pakistan than any other country, writes Wajeehah A. Sabahat.
Downer: We need to negotiate with the Taliban
Let’s face it: the Taliban is a strong part of the political environment in Afghanistan and therefore we must engage with them to achieve stability. It’s just like how peace only arrived in Northern Ireland once the IRA joined the negotiation process, says former foreign minister Alexander Downer.
Taliban tries to hijack the Times Square bomb
The Pakistani Taliban has released videos attempting to claim the car bomb in Times Square, New York as its work. But it’s all bluff, claim experts. The Taliban doesn’t have that much power in the US.
Taliban leader captured: an AfPak game changer?
Today’s big news from the AfPak frontlines is that the deputy leader of the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has been captured by American and Pakistani forces. Will this finally bring the Taliban to the negotiating table? asks The Economist.
Is the US at war with Pakistan?
Three American soldiers have been killed in Pakistan, where the US has been launching missile attacks, drone strikes and raids since last year. Can we start using the “w” word yet? asks Noah Shachtman.
Inside the gun markets of Pakistan
Vice journalist Suroosh Alvi visits “the most dangerous place in the world” — a massive open-air gun market in Pakistan’s tribal area, where members of the Taliban and jihadists go to buy their firearms.
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America’s secret war in Pakistan
Elite helicopter-borne US forces have been conducting clandestine raids into Pakistan at night as part of an ongoing secret war near the country’s Afghanistan border, according to a former Nato officer.
The Taliban doesn’t want your help, Western jihadists
Thinking of running away to join the Taliban? Apparently it’s not that easy — the Taliban doesn’t need Westerners, who are only good as “cannon fodder”, preferring local recruits, who already know the land and language and look the part.
CIA outsources its dirty work in Pakistan
The US is paying controversial private military contractor Blackwater to plan targeted drone-strike assassinations and run “snatch and grab” operations on key Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan, according to an investigation by The Nation.
Why is America funding Pakistan’s spies?
The CIA is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Pakistan’s intelligence service, according to former officials, even though it’s widely suspected the agency is helping Taliban extremists.
Is the world safe from Pakistani nukes?
The success of recent attacks by the Pakistani Taliban raises a scary prospect: just how safe are the country’s nuclear warheads from falling into militant hands? Intelligence officials aren’t so sure.
shocking A third of people killed in CIA drone strikes are civilians
A shocking new report has found that a third of the victims of CIA’s Taliban-targeting drone strikes in Pakistan are civilians — and those are just the ones the media knows about.
Meet the new Pakistani Taliban chief
With Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud said to have been killed recently by the US military, the organisation has named his successor: “ruthless and rash” 20-something Hakimullah Mehsud.
The New Republic / Monday, 11 January 2010
Pakistan’s mainstream media is increasingly pushing an ominously anti-American line, claims The New Republic, and at the forefront is newspaper The Nation and its editor Shireen Mazari — the country’s answer to Anne Coulter.