NATO in Afghanistan – Between Rock and a Hard Thing

These faces of war in Afghanistan are a grim reminder that the Taliban are evolving their tactics better than the ISAF in this war on terror. The increased levels of sophistication and expertise in using IEDs and conduct of guerrilla warfare indicates the tenacity and vibrancy of the so called backward Taliban to contest all that is [...]

America’s Wars

Obama has inherited an America at war with itself in virtually all parts of the world. Somewhere it is kinetic where as at other places there are temporal wars being fought by America. All these are draining precious resources and are leading towards an early demise of the American Century. Throughout its brief lifetime, America [...]

Balkanising Pakistan

It is time to Balkanise Pakistan, says Michael Hughes.In his article titled Balkanising Pakistan: A collective National Security Strategy the author has articulated the “Why” of his suggestion through a compelling argument. This has serious ramifications for the region, especially for India. The basic proposal of fragmentation is to break off and allow Afghanistan to [...]

How Much Convincing Does the World Want?

What Chris Alexander, the Canadian diplomat, brought to the notice of the world on the heels of WikiLeaks and a three-year extension to Kayani, obviously has made no impact on Obama. Obama said Monday that Pakistan is doing all it can to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. The revelations made by the Canadian Diplomat, who [...]

Afghanistan After America

General Patraeus’s recent communique to the ISAF says “fight the Taliban hard and have a cup of tea with the Afghans.” Thankfully, the West has , despite all the COIN strategies realised that it is important to win the popular support in this insurgency.  That he is willing to apply the “whole of government” approach [...]

Who Rolls the Dice?

As a blogger I have to rely on graphics from other sources. But that’s OK..in this web 2.0 environment such collaboration is permitted. This one from Outlook is a wee bit dated in view of WikiLeaks but the larger question is determining who rolls the Dice and controls the fate of South Asia in the [...]

Win Win for Pakistan

Map Courtesy www.stratfor.com Pakistan remains a victim of its vicious “Islamic State” paranoia since its inception. Zia Ul Haq fanned the Islamic powers to unite the country against India and launched Operation Topac. He began employing Jihadis as an instrument of state policy to bleed India through a thousand cuts since 1989. As per a [...]

On the back foot with WikiLeaks

The American and Pakistani world turned on its head with WikiLeaks this monday. This is just the tip of the iceberg says WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange. This has started an intense debate across the globe on whether the leaks are a way to correct the wrongs or a grave danger to National security. It depends on which [...]

Kayani – The Puppeteer

As was once said of Prussia, Pakistan is not so much a country with an army but an army with a country. Pakistan army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez  Kayani, has been given a a three-year extension to his term of office to maintain continuity in the country’s battle against Islamist militants. Kayani, arguably Pakistan’s most powerful man, had [...]

Afghanistan – Kabul Conference and Beyond

“We can’t be there for another five years, having been there for nine years already”, British Prime Minister David Cameron suddenly realised. NATO’s Secretary-General Rasmussen has warned that the Taliban would return to Afghanistan and it would once again become a safe haven for terrorists if international forces withdrew too soon. The Kabul conference of [...]

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