Stories from Tariq Fatemi
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Prospects for the endgame
Unexpected deterioration in Pakistan-US relations could become another complicating factor in US Pakistan cooperation.
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Imperial overstretch?
US' defence expenditure is greater than the combined total of the next ten largest spenders on defence.
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Shocking but not surprising
To characterise Breivik’s action an isolated act is wrong and dangerous, and amounts to sweeping it under the rug.
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Is this the Obama doctrine?
Getting India into this arrangement may sound like a stroke of genius, but could turn out to be a huge folly.
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Peace prospects with India
Both need to recognise that the establishment of goodwill and beginning of cooperative relations would benefit both.
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Dangers in the endgame
US will now pressure Pakistan to play along with the peace process and conduct military operations in N. Waziristan.
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Executive exuberance
Executive’s tendency to ignore laws curb misplaced exuberance is not peculiar to one country, as we see in Pakistan.
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Entering the endgame
As the US intensifies its search for credible Afghan interlocutors, some rethinking is also taking place in Islamabad.