Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
19th July, 2011
The participation by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in the two-day conference on terrorism held at Tehran on June 25 was invested with political symbolism as a mark of displeasure towards the United States. But Zardari’s return to Tehran within three weeks on a second visit on Saturday unmistakably carried the stamp of Pakistan’s “strategic defiance” of the US.
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Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Pepe Escobar
13th July, 2011
Before the end of 2011, Pakistan will start working on its stretch of the IP (Iran-Pakistan) gas pipeline – according to Asim Hussain, Pakistan’s federal minister for petroleum and natural resources. The 1,092 kilometers of pipeline on the Iranian side are already in place.
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Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
28th June, 2011
The participation of the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the international conference on terrorism held in Tehran over the weekend becomes a major diplomatic and political victory for Iran at the present juncture of regional politics. Both Asif Ali Zardari and Hamid Karzai were received by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
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Posted by seumasach on June 22, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
23rd June, 2011
Almost directly in proportion to the nosedive in Washington’s ties with its allies in Kabul and Islamabad, Iran has stepped up its political and diplomatic activity over the Afghan problem and the regional situation. Tehran estimates that the United States’ relations with the Afghan and Pakistani governments have suffered a serious setback and a swift recovery is unlikely.
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Posted by seumasach on June 20, 2011
Anglo-American power is now hemorrhaging on all fronts, the attack on Libya having provoking a deep reaction. Karzai is meant to be their man, but is proving his own man and engaging with the American’s enemies. With a retreat from empire on the order of the day the total absence of sound and sane leadership in Anglo-American is the outstanding feature of the current reality. Will impending Anglo-American economic collapse focus our minds and force a rethink or will we simply sink into greater incoherence and violence, the lost, violent souls of Elliot’s “The Hollow Men”.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
21st June, 2011
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai sprang a surprise on Saturday by affirming for the first time publicly that the “United States is involved in peace talks with the Taliban”. The statement comes against the backdrop of growing tensions over Washington’s efforts to get him to agree to a strategic partnership agreement allowing permanent American and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military bases.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th June, 2011
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) marked its 10th anniversary at the summit meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. Anniversaries divisible by five or 10 are almost sacrosanct occasions in international politics – especially for Central Asian countries and the adjacent capitals of Moscow and Beijing that have been weaned on the formalism of Marxism-Leninism. Much expectation was placed on the occasion at Astana.
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Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
11th June, 2011
A momentous week stretches ahead as Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrives in Islamabad on Saturday for the inaugural session of the joint Afghan-Pakistani commission for reconciling the Taliban. The Pakistani army chief as well as the Inter-Intelligence Services head will be sitting on the commission and investing it with an unmistakable halo of prestige and authority.
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Posted by seumasach on May 31, 2011
In Libya there is talk of the bombing campaign giving way to troops on the ground, but, with or without troops on the ground, NATO only has one military strategy: bombing. They destroy the target nation’s infrastructure and “degrade and destroy’ its people: their deeds will live forever in the annals of crime.
31st May, 2011
Afghan president Hamid Karzai has once again warned the Western military alliance force in Afghanistan against carrying out air strikes in civilian areas.
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Posted by seumasach on May 17, 2011
“Ironically, Afghanistan is all set now to become the ”hub” that will bring Central Asia and South Asia together – except that the historic process is taking place not under US stewardship, as Starr conceived, Bush probably wanted and Obama failed to follow up, but under Chinese and Russian partnership.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
17th May, 2011
Grand visions take time to realize but they seldom die. They may languish but they regenerate and take new unexpected forms. The ”Great Central Asia” strategy envisioned by the George W Bush administration is most certainly one such grand vision.
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Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2011
Gareth Porter
10th May, 2011
WASHINGTON – United States President Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations with the Taliban for peace in Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on May 9, 2011
Justin Raimondo
5th May, 2011
You know something is up when Republicans start taking the lead in questioning our decade-long war in Afghanistan, and, indeed, something is up: a propitious confluence of circumstances and events, the most dramatic of which is the assassination of Osama bin Laden by US Special Forces. In hearings held the other day, Senator Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) said he thinks the Afghan occupation is no longer justified:
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