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Category: International

  • Dorab Patel on Judicial Aloofness – CJP’s meeting Richard Holbrooke

    Mr Shakil Jafri editor of The Financial Daily asked me to reproduce as an article what I had written on CJ meeting Richard Holbrooke. With the intention to expand on these few paragraphs I chanced upon some reflections of a past judge which I added to my statement and am reproducing it below. Members of…

  • CJP Iftikhar meets Holbrooke?

    There is a news item which may go unnoticed that the Chief Justice of Pakistan had a meeting with Mr Richard Holbrooke in his chambers on Friday. We as members of the civil society have struggled long and hard for his restoration and we continue to respect the Supreme Court, but for matters of dignity…

  • TEDIndia invites TED Fellows applications from Pakistan

    For those who have been dotting the internet arena for sometime must have bumped across one or more inspirational presentations on TED.com. Only recently Faisal Chohan had been selected as TED Fellow 2009 and it is through his efforts that we extend an open invitation to Pakistanis. The selection to this TED Fellows group is…

  • Bilawal Zardari bumps a seat in the Pakistani Delegation to the White House

    A casual glance at this picture above taken a few weeks back one would generally not have seen the anomaly but a careful look reveals the problem, a high level meeting in Washington between the respective Presidents of The United States of American, Afghanistan and Pakistan, seems ordinary enough. Generally such a meeting is attended…

  • UK Border Agency deports a Pakistani National to Afghanistan

    A young Pakistani born and bred in village Dhok Gangaal, Post Office Adiala, Tehsil & District Rawalpindi, Irfan Faisal son of Multan Khan who was born on 5 December 1978 holding a machine readable Pakistani passport number AC8911731 which was issued by Rawalpindi office on 12 September 2005 and is valid until 11 September 2010…

  • Survey shows 52% people NOT favoring Army incursion in NWFP | 72% supported Peace Deal

    International Republican Institue which has since 2006 been conducting some valuable opinion polling in Pakistan has just recently released their tenth survey – You can download the charts and graphs using this link [PDF] | While the descriptive review can be read here [PDF] The poll was conducted March 4-30, 2009 comprised of a randomly…

  • MQM’s Haider Abbas Rizvi challenges with his MNA seat?

    Yesterday on ARY in the show ‘Off the Record’ with Kashif Abbasi he interviewed Imran Khan and MQM MNA Mr. Haider Abbas Rizvi.  In the heated debate around the 26th minute of the telecast Haider Abbas Rizvi entangles with Imran Khan challenging him to prove with documentary evidence that the Canadian Courts may have declared…

  • US-Pakistan-Afghanistan Summit: To Disrupt, Dismantle, and Defeat Al-Qaeda

    Whoever has a better idea would win the battle.

  • The Taliban’s Atomic Threat: John Bolton’s Fear Mongering

    Afghanistan is not a nuclear power. Yet the alleged conspirators of 9/11 emerged from there.

  • Update: Detained Pakistani Students at Manchester

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik, barrister representing the detained Pakistani students in Manchester I was asked by Pakistan High Commission to represent 4 out of 10 Pakistani national students currently detained at Manchester prison who are threatened of deportation on national security grounds. They are being deported on grounds of posing threat to national security…

  • Two Washingtonians On Pakistan

    Pakistan. ‘s neo-conzix point man Husain Haqqani in Washington wrote in WSJ: Now that the Taliban have been driven out of Buner, and Pakistani forces have militarily engaged them just outside their Swat Valley stronghold, it should be clear to all that Pakistan can and will defeat the Taliban. Leap of logic by a person…

  • The Genius Figures it Out: It is Da Bomb

    Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence chief “As long as the armed forces are intact, the state is not going to be at risk,” he told The Washington Times. The Saudi Prince genius has figured it all out – by himself! So now that it is out, no harm in sharing the insight with…

  • Where is the Pakistan Army?

    Dr. Farrukh Saleem writes for The News analyzing the strategic deployments of the Pakistan Army according to his rough estimates a total of 89,568 square kilometers of Pakistani territory is either under complete ‘Taliban control’, ‘contested control’ or ‘Taliban influenced’; that’s roughly 11 per cent of Pakistan’s landmass. The sickening reality is that having lost…

  • Double Jeopardy: Arrested Pak students need Justice & Fairness

    On 8 April 2009, twelve students mostly Pakistani nationals were arrested at Manchester in a suspicion of terrorism related offences in a rushed police operation ‘Pathway’. At the time of writing this article those detained have been off loaded from ‘terror charges’ to national security considerations on behest of Home Office and are handed over…

  • You Asked for it Col. Harish Puri!

    This is in reference to the article of Colonel Harish Puri – “An Open Letter to Gen Kayani” A majority of Indian authors including this Col (R) Harish Puri, are always keen to convey their loaded messages from across the border with laden sarcasm. Indian writers have a convincing way to convey the message in…