Tag: Taliban
Reconciling positions
As a series of international talks unfolds on bringing peace to Afghanistan, the positions of the US and Pakistan on the issue get crystallised....
The muddle continues
Mixed signals emerged during and after Hillary Clinton’s high powered visit to Pakistan last month. Going by the statements made while in Pakistan, objective...
US-Taliban reconciliation
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Pakistan last month to meet Pakistani leadership and discuss various aspects of the Pak-US strategic relationship. She...
Pakistan to push for ceasefire with Taliban
With the Istanbul Conference on Afghanistan slated for tomorrow (Wednesday) all set to give nod to the US plan for peace dialogue with the...
Flawed reportage?
Western countries and their media are very fond of lecturing the underdeveloped nations especially Pakistan to adopt high moral values and traditions which lead...
Back to square one?
Over the last six months, differences between the US and Pakistan over how to bring peace to Afghanistan had gradually boiled down to two...
Redefining the reconciliation principles
The best formula devised by the US so far to control the extended reach of Haqqani network operating against the American forces in Afghanistan...
Another report
By now, sheer outrage fatigue prevents any shock in the western political and media establishments over any news item on Pakistan’s covert relationship with...
Journalism or jabberwocky?
Call it the new style of reporting Pakistan’s ‘perfidy’. Go to Afghanistan, embed with the National Directorate of Security (NDS), interview alleged Taliban commanders,...
US again calls for ‘unequivocal’ action on militants
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday renewed her call on Pakistan to close safe havens for militants, saying the uneasy partner must...
Taliban commanders claim Pakistan intelligence helps them
Pakistan’s security service provides weapons and training to Taliban insurgents fighting US and British troops in Afghanistan, despite official denials, Taliban commanders say, in...
The ways of a superpower
Do we really think that if the US were to act against Pakistan, it would be in a traditional way? That they would attack...
Talking to the Taliban
The headline “Convince Taliban to talk, US asks Pakistan” of a leading English daily speaks volumes. Is this what the high powered delegation of...
Right assessment
That Pakistan has told the high-powered Hillary Clinton-led US delegation that “it is ready to facilitate its talks with the Taliban, but cannot become...
Taliban release video of abducted Swiss couple
The Taliban on Tuesday released a video of a Swiss couple abducted nearly four months ago in Balochistan. Olivier David Och, 31, and Daniela...
Militants kill anti-Taliban tribesmen in Mohmand
Militants armed with rockets and hand grenades attacked the house of a prominent anti-Taliban elder in the Minzari Chinaa area, 90 kilometres (55 miles)...
Fazlullah vows new war in Pakistan
Afghanistan-based Taliban leader Maulvi Fazlullah has vowed to return to Pakistan to wage war in his former stronghold Swat Valley, and doubts the government...
