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Irfan Hussain: Self-delusion
LOST in the strident blame game between Islamabad and Washington in the aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad is any clarity about the basis of their relationship.
While conspiracy theories and accusations are being...
Rasul Baksh Rais: Know your enemy
It is the basics of national security to know who the enemies are that threaten the integrity, stability and social order of a society. Getting the enemy assessment right is one of the fundamental things to formulate a robust strategy. If we...
Babar Sattar: Heads should roll
OUR military and intelligence agencies stand indicted for being complicit with terror groups and our best defence seems to be to plead incompetence.
Osama’s refuge in the shadows of the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul and his killing without...
Pervez Hoodbhoy: Case of Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, the figurehead king of al Qaeda, is gone. His hosts are still rubbing their eyes and wondering how it all happened. Although scooped up from Pakistani soil, shot in the head and then buried at sea, the event was not announced...
ISPR Press Release: 138th Corps Commanders meeting
138th Corps Commanders’ Conference was held today at General Headquarters Rawalpindi. General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) chaired the meeting.
One point agenda was the Abbottabad incident in which Osama Bin Laden was killed...
Tariq Fatemi: Foreign Pressures mounting
While governance challenges at home are multiplying, pressures from abroad are intensifying. The country appears to be lurching from one crisis to another, but so convinced is the government of conspiracies afoot that it appears afflicted by...
