POLITICS: Pakistan’s Offensive, Afghanistan’s Risk
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Commentary By Killid Correspondents*
KABUL, Oct 12 (IPS) – For generations, Pakistan’s southern Waziristan region has been a launching pad for insurgent military operations in Afghanistan
During the Soviet invasion of this country, Mujahiddin used the area as a staging ground for attacks on Russian soldiers. [...]
WHO WAS AMJAD FAROOQI IN WHOSE NAME PAK GHQ HAS BEEN RAIDED?
INTERNATIONaL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.563
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B.RAMAN
A news agency report says as follows: "The Tehreek-e-Taliban has claimed responsibility for the brazen attack on the Pakistan Army’s Headquarters in Rawalpindi on Saturday, which left four of its militants and eight soldiers dead. The outfit has again demanded a halt in the [...]
CHINA-INDIA: NON-GOVERNMENTAL HOSTILITY BEHIND FACADE OF GOVERNMENTAL CORDIALITY
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B.RAMAN
The following are my comments in reply to some questions E-mailed to me by a correspondent of the "Washington Post" in Beijing on August 14,2009:
1) It seems that China has gotten some criticism about the border issue talk recently in India. What do these criticisms focus [...]
END OF BAITULLAH MEHSUD?
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR— PAPER NO.547
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B.RAMAN
( To be read in continuation of my article of June 26,2009, titled "Co-Ordinated Hunt For Baitullah Mehsud" at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers33/paper3275.html . Article annexed for easy reference)
The co-ordinated hunt for Baitullah Mehsud, the Amir of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), undertaken by the [...]
ARRESTS OF TERRORIST SUSPECTS IN AUSTRALIA
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 546
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B.RAMAN
The police authorities of Melbourne charged before a local court on August 5,2009, four Muslims with "conspiring to commit an act in preparation or planning a terrorist act." The police alleged that the charged persons were planning to carry out [...]
MIDEAST: As U.S. Winds Down, Iraq Tilts Toward Iran
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Ali Gharib
NEW YORK, Jul 30 (IPS) – A raid by Iraqi security forces on a camp of Iranian dissidents is widely seen as a sign that Iraqi authorities are establishing their independence as the U.S. occupation winds down û and tilting instead towards Iran.
There [...]
WILL THE PM EMULATE REAGAN?
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B.RAMAN
The explanation of the Prime Minister, Dr.Manmohan Singh, in the Lok Sabha on July 29,2009, on the statement issued by him jointly with Yousef Raza Gilani, the Pakistani Prime Minister, at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt on July 17,2009, skillfully sought to control the damage done by the ill-advised [...]
