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.
Read MoreShahid 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.
Posted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Aug 30, 2010 | News & Analysis |
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.
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Aug 18, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, an Australian journalist and a computer hacker, has begun to...
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Aug 2, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
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 one way or the other. It is no wonder then that...
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Jul 20, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
The unresolved Kashmir conflict has rocked South Asia for six decades.
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Jul 3, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
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, exposed the civil-military divide and intensified...
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Jun 25, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
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. military and lay at the bottom of a failed war in Afghanistan
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Apr 29, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
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 to his frustration was none other than the darling of the West until about a year ago – Mr. Hamid Karzai.
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Mar 30, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
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 becoming an independent state in their geo-strategic interests.
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Feb 17, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
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 on conspiracies to destabilize Pakistan.
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Nov 30, 2009 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
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 countries.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 countries.
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