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Pakistan has had enoughThe assumption that it has no choice but to obey America may turn out to be a dire strategic error Simon Tisdall, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 November 2011 Readers of Dawn newspaper, commenting online, were in no doubt how the Pakistani government should respond to Saturday's killing by US forces of 24 soldiers on Pakistan's side of the Afghan

Tensions Flare Between U.S. and Pakistan After Strike By SALMAN MASOOD and ERIC SCHMITT, New York Times, Nov 27, 2011 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani officials said on Saturday that NATO aircraft had killed at least 25 soldiers in strikes against two military posts at the northwestern border with Afghanistan, and the country’s supreme army commander called them unprovoked acts of aggression

Where nonsense has a life of its own Ayaz Amir, The News, November 25, 2011 Ours must be the most insecure country in the world, and the most paranoid. We are terrified not just by our nightmares but our very shadows. And judging by our behaviour we seem to think that the rest of the world has nothing else on its mind but how to undermine the Islamic Republic’s impregnable foundations.Husain

Challenges for Pakistan's New Ambassador to the US By Nadia Rasul, Asia Society, November 23rd, 2011 Pakistan has appointed former Minister for Information Sherry Rehman as its new ambassador to the United States, following a controversy surrounding a mysterious memo that forced the country's previous representative, Ambassador Husain Haqqani, to resign. Asia Society's experts believe that

Let’s Hear from the Spies Posted by Steve Coll, New Yorker, November 24, 2011 In late 2008, the United States intelligence community produced a classified National Intelligence Estimate on the war in Afghanistan that has never been released to the public. The N.I.E. described a “grim situation” overall, according to an intelligence officer’s private briefing for NATO ambassadors. In

Memogate: Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S. Resigns, Twitter Reacts Asia Society, November 22nd, 2011 by Annie Ali Khan Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani announced from his Twitter account (@husainhaqqani) this morning that he asked Prime Minster Yousaf Raza Gillani to accept his resignation. The resignation has been accepted. Haqqani had earlier tendered a formal

To download the complete report (pdf), click here Asia Foundation Afghan poll reveals increased pessimism BBC, Nov 15, 2011 More Afghans than at any time since 2004 believe their country is moving in the wrong direction, an annual poll by US group The Asia Foundation reveals. While 46% think their country is moving in the right direction, 35% disagreed, an 8% jump compared with

From The News, November 18, 2011 CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM  BRIEFING FOR ADM. MIKE MULLEN, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFFDuring the past 72 hours since a meeting was held between the president, the prime minister and the chief of army staff, there has seen a significant deterioration in Pakistan's political atmosphere. Increasingly desperate efforts by the various agencies and factions within

Reality TV Goes Where Football Meets the Hijab New York Times, November 10, 2011 By POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR IF anything made me an American, it was television. I learned English from soap operas — after kindergarten, curled up Mommy-side — and then beyond, the many hours she abandoned the sofa for the kitchen when I alternated between after-school cartoons and adult crime dramas. English came to