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Obama signs Iran sanctions into law
Jan 1st
HONOLULU: US President Barack Obama Saturday signed into law tough new sanctions targeting Iran s central bank and
US mulls handing top Taliban prisoner to Afghan authorities
Dec 31st
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspe
US mulls transfer of Taliban prisoner in perilous peace bid
Dec 30th
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspe
Key events of 2011: Arab Spring, Bin Laden’s death and economic meltdown
Dec 29th
A month by month round up of world events.
Imran Khan: Unleash the Figurative Tsunami
Dec 28th
This past Sunday was Christmas Day, PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif‘s birthday, and the 135th birth anniversary of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the father of Pakistan. This past Sunday was also Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (“Movement for Justice”)’s much-anticipated political rally in Karachi. For those of us not physically at the Minar-e-Quaid (Jinnah’s Mausoleum), the PTI jalsa was cause [...]
Obama worships, visits Marines on Christmas Day
Dec 26th
HONOLULU: President Barack Obama and his family went to church in Hawaii and visited US Marines and their families
US urges Iraq ‘dialogue’ to head off political crisis
Dec 26th
US Vice President Joe Biden makes calls to Iraqi leaders urges them to mend fences.
How Obama Can Fix U.S.- Pakistani Relations – Foreign Affairs
Dec 22nd
How Obama Can Fix U.S.-Pakistani RelationsHelping Islamabad Through The Democratic Transition
Hassan Abbas; Foreign Affairs; December 21, 2011
The U.S.-Pakistani relationship has become defined by mutual dissatisfaction and by impatience on both sides. The November 26 NATO operation in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal area, which led to the deaths of more than two dozen Pakistani soldiers
Secretary Clinton’s Message to Pakistan: Help us Negotiate with Taliban and Haqqani Group
Oct 24th
Clinton Pressing Pakistan for Joint Covert Action on Islamic Insurgents
By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Bloomberg, Oct 24, 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Pakistan will suffer “dire consequences” if it fails to“contain” terrorists operating from its soil, and it needs the U.S. and Afghanistan to help get the job done.
The Obama administration isn’t asking Pakistan’s
Fight in Afghanistan to turn eastward: Petraeus
Jul 5th
The outgoing commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan said that the focus of the war will shift in coming months from Taliban strongholds in the south to the eastern border with Pakistan where insurgents closest to Al-Qaida and other militants ho…
