Category: Global Terrorism

Pakistan, Taliban & the “War on Terror”…yawn

Thanks to Anirban for alerting me to “Pakistan on a perilous path” by Mohammad Shehzad (a journalist based in Islamabad). It reiterates the points that have been made by me & several other commentators in...

“Israel’s Domestic Enemy” – excerpts

Here is a link to a thought provoking article from some time ago… “Israel’s domestic enemy” I first read it in�The Pioneer (Dec 27 ’06)�and was reminded of it while looking for something else...

Now its the turn of Iran…

Chidanand Rajghatta wrote in The Times of India two days ago about how US may be using Pakistan  in efforts to destabilise the current regime in Iran (“US using Pakistan to destabilise Iran“). As...

The “Raja-Mandala” approach to containing Pakistan

A few days ago, I chanced upon this article by Vanni Cappelli (freelance journalist; co-founder and president of the Afghanistan Foreign Press Association) titled “Containing Pakistan: Engaging the Raja-Mandala in South-Central Asia” Vanni starts by...

Economist’s comment on Muslim Attitudes…

In “If you want my opinion” (The Economist, Pg 72, issue dated Mar 10, ’07) – a study of Muslim attitudes and their views on various things like democracy, terrorism etc. I came across...