Drone strike on Balochistan: Where is the right target?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on December 7, 2009 · 1 Comment
Baloch Hal Editorial: By Malik Siraj Akbar US President Barrack Obama has committed an additional 30,000 troops under his new Af-Pak policy announced at United States Military Academy in West Pont, New York. Under this plan, Washington is contemplating withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan in the next 18 months. According to Obama, the US will … Read more
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U.S. Weighs Taliban Strike Into Pakistan
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
U.S. Weighs Taliban Strike Into Pakistan By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT Published: March 17, 2009 WASHINGTON — President Obama and his national security advisers are considering expanding the American covert war in Pakistan far beyond the unruly tribal areas to strike at a different center of Taliban power in Baluchistan, where top Taliban … Read more
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DAILY TIMES EDITORIAL: And now drones for Balochistan?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
EDITORIAL: And now drones for Balochistan? No one in Pakistan will support the reported plans in Washington to extend American drone attacks from the Tribal Areas to the already disturbed province of Balochistan. The Foreign Office in Islamabad has dismissed the news about the broadening of attacks published in the New York Times as speculation, … Read more
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Threat to secular Balochistan?
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on March 9, 2009 · 3 Comments
By Malik Siraj Akbar Monday, 09 Mar, 2009 | 09:04 AM PST | Nothing embarrasses and irks Pakistani spymasters more than the issue of Talibanisation in Quetta. Over the years, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly protested against the alleged protection provided by Islamabad to Mullah Omar, the one-eyed spiritual cleric and reclusive leader of … Read more
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