Tuesday, August 9

Pakistan's military command concerned about Karachi riots, week-long peace in city holds due to strong paramilitary presence

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"The government launched a peace drive and sent hundreds of extra security forces into the troubled neighbourhoods, and calm has held f...

London riots spread to other cities in England on Mon and Tues, rioters coordinating looting and attacks on police via mobile phones and Twitter

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The late Mr Duggan , taxi driver and alleged drug dealer, whose shooting death by police sparked a protest that morphed into the London riot...
Monday, August 8

London Rioters: "These guys had nice cars, nice mobiles."

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" Tottenham riots: a peaceful protest, then suddenly all hell broke loose." Arson fire in north London, Saturday 8/6 Photo: L...
Friday, August 5

The lengthening shadow in Pakistan

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Karachi, one of the world's megacities Odd, isn't it, how nothing ever changes until it does. Take Cuba: the peasants were always s...
Thursday, August 4

Pakistan maybe sort of extends MFN trading status to India

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I direct your attention to the closing paragraphs in the following report -- the ones about Pakistan's economy and India's offer to ...

A fine bit of withering sarcasm from a Pakistani pundit about the country's military establishment

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From Dr Mohammad Taqi's August 4 op-ed for Pakistan's Daily Times, Pakistan’s foreign policy: grandeur of delusions — I — : [...] Fo...
Monday, August 1

Pundita's Vacation Diary

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OLD PUNDITA PROVERB: HE WHO PLACATE TIGER BY FEEDING IT HIS FINGER SOON MISSING HIS HEAD July 31 : China officially offers squadron of J-1...
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Monday, July 25

Note

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The next post will be on Monday August 1. Best regards to all, Pundita
Thursday, July 21

Where there's a will....

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Washington's defense/foreign relations policies as seen from outer space It's amazing what people can do when they set their minds t...
Wednesday, July 20

TWO women -- Wendi Deng Murdoch and Janet Nova -- foiled Parliament pie assailant! This story just keeps getting better! (UPDATED 8:40 PM EDT

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UPDATE The NYT report I feature below says that Janet Nova's actions "may have gone unnoticed in the scuffle and in the media hype ...

U.S. lawmakers, GOP committee "unknowingly" accept bribes -- er, donations -- from fronts for Pakistan's ISI

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The New York Times report, below, is careful to avoid accusing the lawmakers of deliberate wrongdoing but there was never anything preventin...
Tuesday, July 19

With one swift jab Wendi Deng Murdoch does more for the cause of women's rights than the United Nations ever did

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UPDATE July 20, 8:50 PM EDT It turns out that there were actually two woman -- an American attorney named Janet Nova is the other -- who fo...

Painting a smiley face on a terror-sponsoring regime

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Pakistan's next Foreign Minister July 19, the (U.K.) Independent: Pakistan is poised to appoint its first female Foreign Minister before...
Friday, July 15

Bum's Rush

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Yesterday I discussed my suspicion that ISI Chief Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha's hastily arranged trip to Washington was actually a last-d...
Thursday, July 14

What's the real story behind ISI chief Pasha's latest trip to Washington? (UPDATED July 15)

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SecState Hillary Clinton arriving in India, July 2009 Things promise to be even rosier this time around The (Pakistan) Express Tribune repor...