tnr.com - 26 days ago
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The Boston Globe 's Farah Stockman reports that Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, could be in physical danger were he to return to Islamabad, where he hasn't been for 8 months, due to the charge that he's too "pro-American." Making that charge? The Pakistani ...
newyorker.com - 22 days ago
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newyorker.com —
In the tumultuous days leading up to the
Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of...
South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked what should have been some of the country’s best-guarded targets. ...
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Seymour M. Hersh: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear ...
tnr.com - 10/30/2009
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tnr.com —
This is pretty great. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton expressed doubt Thursday over Pakistan's failure to...
locate top al-Qaeda leaders in the eight years since they escaped over the border from Afghanistan, telling a group of Pakistani ...
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Hillary Gets Tough; Will it Work?
truthdig.com - 29 days ago
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truthdig.com —
By William Pfaff When Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton visits Pakistan this week, she will hear a...
lot about how fearful the Pakistan populace is, not of the Taliban and al-Qaida, but of the United States. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related ...
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Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People
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Pakistan Military Growing Wary of United States?
Matthew Yglesias —
... military has had a proclivity for overthrowing the civilian government, and for operating itself autonomously even while civilians are formally in charge. And their strong relationship with the US was part and parcel of how that works. More recently, the US has been trying to turn over a new leaf and build a broader relationship with Pakistan aimed at improving ordinary Pakistanis’ view of the United States and bolstering civilian governance.
Meanwhile, via Jason Zengerle, Farah Stockman writes that Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington ...
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Billions In U.S. Aid To Pakistan Never Reached Army, Generals Say
huffingtonpost.com 10/5/2009 — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has been diverted to the domestic economy and other causes, such as fighting India.
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Ziad Haider is an MPA/JD candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and Georgetown Law, and a Truman National Security Fellow. He conducted field research on governance in FATA with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in the summer of 2008 and previously worked as ...
Pakistan Notebook -- By: Clifford D. May
article.nationalreview.com 10/15/2009 — Islamabad -- I picked an interesting moment to visit Pakistan: four terrorist attacks in less than a week. The first was at the World Food Programme office here in the capital: five killed. The second was in the Khyber Bazaar in Peshawar: more than ...
With Billions In The Balance, Clinton Tells Pakistan To Step It Up
politics.theatlantic.com 10/31/2009 — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in Pakistan this week, and, in a meeting with editors in Lahore, she essentially accused Pakistan's government of knowing where al-Qaeda leaders are and choosing, of their own volition, not to go after them. ...
BU professor turned Pakistan envoy draws flak
boston.com 26 days ago — The Boston Globe BU professor-turned-Pakistan-envoy draws fire By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | November 4, 2009 WASHINGTON - Professor Husain Haqqani, who took a leave of absence from Boston University to become Pakistan’s ambassador to the United ...
Billions in aid never reached Pakistan army
msnbc.msn.com 10/6/2009 — Between 2002 and 2008, while al-Qaida regrouped, only $500 million of the $6.6 billion in American aid actually made it to the Pakistani military, two army generals tell The Associated Press.
Obama signs $7.5 billion Pakistan aid bill
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 10/15/2009 — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama signed legislation Thursday providing an additional $7.5 billion in assistance to the Pakistani government.
"This law is the tangible manifestation of broad support for Pakistan in the U.S.," the ...
Without fanfare, Obama signs Pakistan aid bill
reuters.com 10/19/2009 — Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama quietly signed a $7.5 billion aid bill for Pakistan on Thursday that drew criticism in the nuclear-armed South Asian country because of conditions linked to the assistance. Obama signed ...
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