Tag Archive 'Pakistan'

A Retreating Periphery

Lee on Jun 01 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized

(photo: Mani Babbar)
After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda’s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of “Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.” But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems to have changed for Hindus.

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Why the Taliban Cease Fire Won’t Matter

Joshua Foust on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, History

Published first at Registan.net, this is the culmination of some research I’ve been doing into the nature and history of Pashtun tribal militancy. It draws from a mixture of out-of-print ethnocgraphic and geographic surveys, as well as contemporary news accounts, and tries to make the case that much of the turbulence there is really not [...]

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A Waziristan Awakening?

Lee on Jan 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

Sunni tribal leaders in Pakistan are organizing militias and some are ready to revolt against Al Qaeda. David Montero at the CSM takes a look at the risks and rewards of applying our successful counterterrorism strategy from Anbar, in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

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You Say You Want a Revolution

Keith_Indy on Dec 27 2007 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Keith's Page, MichaelW's Page

These are the events that can kick off revolutions, civil wars, and even God forbid world wars…
Let’s hope and pray this will be a more bloodless revolution.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318510,00.html
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a homicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally.
The former prime minister died in Rawalpindi [...]

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