A former Pentagon analyst, Michael Rubin, has delivered a scathing assessment of Pakistan's recent nuclear rhetoric, describing the country as behaving like "a rogue state" following threatening comments made by its army chief on American soil.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has sharply criticised Pakistan for its treatment of Dr. Shakil Afridi, the physician who helped the US locate and eliminate Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden responding to a post by US Congressman Brad Sherman who urged a visiting Pakistan to press for Dr. Afridi’s release.
As US Navy SEALs helicopters swept into Pakistan's Abbottabad garrison town early on May 2, 2011, to neutralise their biggest adversary, Osama Bin Laden, President Asif Ali Zardari was awake that night - stitching up a power deal to bolster up the PPP government, his former advisor has disclosed.
Terming Operation Sindoor a “befitting response” to the recent barbaric attack in Pahalgam, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday drew a parallel between the Indian military action and the 2011 US operation that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Robert J O’Neill, the individual who gained widespread attention for asserting that he was responsible for the demise of Osama…
Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari unceremoniously raked up the issue of Kashmir during a UN gathering.
The United States on Wednesday announced to release USD 3.5 billion of the total USD 7 billion frozen money of Afghanistan to the new "Afghan Fund" for humanitarian aid.
Osama bin Laden too was living comfortably in the cantonment town of Abbottabad where senior Pakistani military officers and intelligence officials had sprawling homes while Islamabad stoutly denied it had any knowledge about the whereabouts of the most wanted man in the world then.
The torture that Zawahiri underwent, and the obligation he felt to betray some of his colleagues, only served to harden his ideology.
Today, a more complete dominance by the Taliban looms with the impending pull-back of US troops. The Chinese will maintain ‘hard-borders‘ given their own vulnerabilities with the Uighur uprising, and the pandemic-fatigued Iran will struggle to offer any meaningful opposition to the Taliban. Potentially, the Taliban could crush all opposition and become the ‘export hub‘ of its puritanical-revisionist impulses, for which the first porous destination would be Pakistan.
