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Shahid R. Siddiqi began his career in the Pakistan Air Force. He later joined the corporate sector with which he remained associated until recently in a senior management position. Alongside, he worked as a broadcaster with Radio Pakistan and remained the Islamabad bureau chief of an English weekly magazine ‘Pakistan & Gulf Economist’. In the U.S. he co-founded the Asian American Republican Club in Maryland in 1994 to encourage the participation of Asian Americans in the mainstream political process. He now writes columns and can be reached at shahidrsiddiqi@gmail.com.

Can America Get Away With Murder?

Can America Get Away With Murder?

The Murder On the crispy afternoon of January 27, in crowded downtown Lahore, a guy who later identified himself as Raymond Davis, a technical advisor at the US Consulate, Lahore,…

Today We Are All Seditious!

Today We Are All Seditious!

When Mohandas Gandhi, the god-father of India who will be revered as the leading light of its freedom movement by the present and future generations of Indians, was arrested by…

Hindutva: A Story of Hate and Terror

Hindutva: A Story of Hate and Terror

Muslims are a suspect community in India and, in some states more than others, are increasingly becoming targets of scorn and terrorism at the hands of radical and fundamentalist Hindu…

Insurgency Movements in India

Insurgencies do not emerge in a vacuum. Their underlying root causes are invariably to be found in political, socio-economic, or religious domains; their nature and scope depending upon the nature…

Who Was Actually Using David Headley?

Who Was Actually Using David Headley?

With such a large numbers of players involved in varying degrees and with too many overlapping internal and external interests, the truth behind the Mumbai saga will perhaps never come…

The US Will Also Lose If Peace Does Not Prevail in South Asia

The US Will Also Lose If Peace Does Not Prevail in South Asia

Obama Should Nudge India Towards Early Resolution of Kashmir Issue…

America Tests Waters for Escalating Afghan War Into Pakistan

America Tests Waters for Escalating Afghan War Into Pakistan

Pakistan rebuffs attempts by shutting down military supply route for US/NATO forces…

Pakistan, Zardari & The Military

‘A deal has been reached’ say the insiders in Islamabad. After a week of intense brinkmanship by the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership, dramatic developments resulting from Supreme Court…

Living on the Edge

Living on the Edge

Of late, the Muslim community in the US has been living on the edge. Targets of "growing tide of fear and intolerance", as the Islamic Society of North America puts…

When ‘Scholars’ Become Pawns of The Propagandists

Selig Harrison loses no opportunity to show that Pakistan's disintegration is only around the corner and prove that Sino-Pakistan relations threaten US interests. …

How Active Is Blackwater in Pakistan?

How Active Is Blackwater in Pakistan?

Reportedly, about 180 US Cobra operatives, including Xe personnel, have recently been secretly positioned in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, and Quetta, and more are expected to join them. …

Afghan Intel Leaks And After

Afghan Intel Leaks And After

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, an Australian journalist and a computer hacker, has begun to draw intense fire over his leaks of Intel files related to Afghan war from the Amnesty…

Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence: Why do the US and India demonize it?

Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence agency, or ISI as it is popularly known, is seen as their nemesis by those who have tried to undermine the security interests of the country…

KASHMIR – The Dispute That Continues to Rock South Asia

KASHMIR – The Dispute That Continues to Rock South Asia

The unresolved Kashmir conflict has rocked South Asia for six decades.…

Shouldn’t General Petraeus Hold His Dogs Of War?

The McChrystal saga is over. A change of command has taken place amid a disastrous Afghan war that tore that country apart, destabilized the region, brought America to the brink,…

A General Gone Rogue

A General Gone Rogue

One reason why Obama acted so promptly to boot out McChrystal was his fear that the McChrystal episode symbolized a far more serious problem that threatened the effectiveness of U.S.…

Is Karzai Heading For The End Game?

Is Karzai Heading For The End Game?

During the last few weeks a barrage of criticism for the West, NATO, and the United Nations has poured out of Kabul. The man roaring in anger and giving vent…

Why Insurgency in Balochistan Cannot Succeed

Why Insurgency in Balochistan Cannot Succeed

Balochistan, Pakistan’s south western province, has evoked much interest among players of regional politics. The US, India, former Soviet Union and even Afghanistan have toyed with the idea of Balochistan…

Threats to Pakistan’s Strategic Nuclear Assets

Threats to Pakistan’s Strategic Nuclear Assets

It is now up to the US to walk its talk and prove its claim that it wants to see a secure and stable Pakistan. It must pull the plug…

View from Pakistan: A Very Cozy U.S.-India Relationship Can Destabilize South Asia

View from Pakistan: A Very Cozy U.S.-India Relationship Can Destabilize South Asia

When the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets President Obama during his visit to the US this week, the two leaders will discuss the strategic dialogue framework between the two…

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