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*** CAUTION: Long Post *** Over the last few days, as news continued to pour in about Taliban’s seemingly unstoppable march across north-west Pakistan, the question that would not go away in my mind was: Why is...
Has the much-vaunted Pashtun tradition fallen by the wayside in the face of Taliban (pl. see last sentence of the extract below)? From a report in The Hindu (dt Apr 30 ’09): …Islamabad (PTI): Taliban militants have...
Excerpts from an eye-opening report in The Dawn (emphasis mine) ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Taliban will not lay down their arms in a northwestern valley as part of a deal that included the introduction of sharia law but...
I am experimenting with a different reading format this weekend…dispensing with extracts…(and) instead letting you *pick and choose* from a few links on different topics… Pl. let me know what you think of this…As some of...
One long and one short article this weekend. The first is about Pakistan and what may well turn out to be Obama’s worst foreign policy nightmare. The second includes some suggestions for BJP re. its...
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