watandost.blogspot.com — Options for reconciliation in Afghanistan By Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), The Hill's Congress Blog, July 27, 2010 This morning, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) chaired a hearing on Afghanistan. This is the Committee's twelfth oversight hearing...
watandost.blogspot.com — An Ally of Necessity Over the past nine years, more Pakistani than NATO troops have lost their lives fighting the Taliban. By HUSAIN HAQQANI, Wall Street Journal JULY 27, 2010 The much publicized leaking of several thousand classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan...
watandost.blogspot.com — WikiLeaks: More US documents coming on Afghan war By Raphael Satter and Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press Writers Mon Jul 26, 2010 LONDON The release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war is just the beginning, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...
watandost.blogspot.com — Know thy neighbour: good, bad, and uglyTimes of India, 24 July, 2010The July 15 Islamabad Summit was a failure only for the supremely ambitious South Asian, says Mosharraf Zaidi The anger that produced Shah Mehmood Qureshi's press conference lambasting the Indian delegation...
watandost.blogspot.com — Kayani, a man for many seasonsShuja Nawaz, Foreign Policy, July 24, 2010In a timely though perhaps overly dramatic move, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani of Pakistan announced last night on national television the extension of army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani for another...
watandost.blogspot.com — A Second Term for General Kayani Dawn, July 24, 2010 It was the worst-kept secret in the country: Prime Minister Gilani's announcement that army chief Gen Kayani is to be granted an extension in service came as a surprise to no one. The only thing that could be termed a little...
watandost.blogspot.com — Songs of the Saints, With Love, From Pakistan By JON PARELES, New York Times, July 22, 2010 Hands waved overhead. Voices shouted lyrics and whooped with delight. Children were hoisted onto parents' shoulders. In the tightly packed crowd a few dancers made room to jump. T-shirts...
watandost.blogspot.com — Protesting the mosque: A post Founding Fathers America Jonathan Hayden, Salon blog, July 21, 2010 Last week protestors poured into the streets of Murfreesboro, TN to voice their displeasure at a proposed new mosque just outside of the city in central Tennessee. Some of the protestors...
watandost.blogspot.com — Meet Afghanistan's new intel boss By Kate Clark, AfPak Channel, Foreign Policy, July 19, 2010 The appointment of a new head of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS, the country's intelligence agency) has come with a lot less fanfare than the departure of the old...
watandost.blogspot.com — Counter-terrorism coordinator steps down The Express Tribune, July 21, 2010 ISLAMABAD: The coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta), Tariq Pervez, has resigned over differences with his bosses on the status of the authority. Pervez wanted the prime minister...