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Is Pakistan sliding to chaos?

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By Dr. K.N. Pandita

At first, implications of Pakistan Supreme Court verdict of 18 December quashing the corruption amnesty did not seem alarming. But as the debate on the issue intensified in political and legal circles, it started unraveling the gravity of situation.

Even leading commentators have begun to express unease that political and administrative situation in Pakistan is becoming rather chaotic.

US official reaction to the quashing of NRO that it is Pakistan’s internal matter and that Washington has nothing to do with it sounds bizarre. Who does not know that the NRO of July 2007 was the brainchild of US and UK handlers who wanted a reconciliation formula brokered between Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto. Washington and London both wanted Pakistan to have some semblance of democratic dispensation because of growing unpopularity of Pervez Musharraf. Continue Reading…

Letter to the Editor

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Formerly published on The WASHINGTON POST, DEC-13-2009, by K. N. Pandit.

re: response to article of strategy of war on terror

Dear Editor:

The cogent and specific point in the analysis of George McGovern (A sharp turn toward another Vietnam, 13 Dec) is that Taliban, as such, are not pronouncedly anti-America. They are fighting the American troops for the reason that US wants to impose a puppet government on them, no matter corrupt or not corrupt. Their fault is that they have opted to protect Osama bin Laden, the villain of 9/11, and thus have come to be identified with anti-American Theo-fascists responsible for that carnage. Before launching attack on Kabul, which put an end to the Taliban control of the capital, the US should have made all efforts to cut a deal with the Taliban clarifying that in case of their refusal to provide Osama shelter and military support, the US would have no objection to their return to power in Kabul. But that was never done and the battle was carried all the way to the rugged terrain of NWFP.  Continue Reading…

Letter to the Editor

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Formerly published on WASHINGTON POST, DEC-08-2009,  by K. N. Pandit
re: response to article of Muslim immigrants

Dear Editor:
Anne Applebaum’s analysis (In Switzerland, towers of fear, 8 Dec) is fairly objective. Nearly thirty million Muslims, mostly from less developed Asian and African countries, have immigrated to the Europe and US in search of economically better and politically more free life. Secular and democratic structure of western society provided them equal rights and opportunities with their own nationals. From immigrants, they graduated to become citizens, and now they are aspiring to be recognized as dominant civilizational entity. They refuse to integrate into the social milieu of the countries to which they have immigrated, and, as exclusivist and separatist, they have generally created their ghettoized segments. Continue Reading…

US to reach Pak nuclear arsenal

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By Dr. K.N. Pandita

The warning of NSA, General (retd) James Jones to President Asif Ali Zrdari that “if Pakistan cannot deliver, the U.S may be impelled to use any means at its disposal to rout insurgents based along Pakistan’s western and southern borders with Afghanistan” is variously interpreted by Pakistan watchers.

Well-informed sources read in these blunt words Washington’s embarrassment over the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, containing something like 80 – 100 nuclear warheads. Should they fall in the hands of Islamic insurgents, it would mean holocaust.   Continue Reading…

Obama’s New Afghan Plan

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By K.N. Pandita

In its first response to President Barak Obama’s new Afghan strategy, Pakistan has been literally blowing hot and cold. To be or not to be is her nerve-breaking dilemma.

Ahmad Rashid, the stalwart journalist and expert on Pakistan-Afghanistan politics made a cryptic but meaningful remark:  “It is now going to be much more difficult for Pakistan who has been in a state of denial about it (shielding Islamic insurgents). It is crunch time.”   Continue Reading…