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Husain Haqqani
The writer is director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC. He served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the US and is author, most recently, of ‘Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States and an epic history of misunderstanding’
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October 05, 2004 00:00 IST
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Mon, Aug 23, 2004Qawali from the fortressSubscriber Only
August 09, 2004 00:00 IST
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Mon, Aug 09, 2004Why the General amnesty?Subscriber Only
July 19, 2004 00:00 IST
The US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, said last week that Taliban-led militants continue to operate from safe havens in Pakist...
Mon, Jul 19, 2004Bitter, but truth is only waySubscriber Only
June 16, 2004 00:00 IST
The Director General of Pakistan’s Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Shaukat Sultan, has reportedly urged the Pakis...
Wed, Jun 16, 2004When image is truth and truth is an imageSubscriber Only
June 10, 2004 00:00 IST
The problem with pretending to be a nation’s saviour is that one has to create an image larger than life. And to create it, one must ei...
Thu, Jun 10, 2004History’s warriorsSubscriber Only
June 03, 2004 00:00 IST
General Pervez Musharraf has publicly acknowledged what most informed Pakistanis have known all along. The attempts on his life late last ye...
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May 22, 2004 00:00 IST
The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group is reviewing Pakistan’s suspended membership of the 53-nation grouping of former British colo...
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April 19, 2004 00:00 IST
During her testimony before the 9/11 commission, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice explained that President Bush was ‘‘ti...
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April 12, 2004 00:00 IST
In the 30 months since President Bush’s declaration of war against global terrorism, the US and its allies have ostensibly detained or ...
Mon, Apr 12, 2004A strategic lack of self-beliefSubscriber Only
March 24, 2004 00:00 IST
The Pakistan Army is finally using force in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan to flush out Islamist militants affiliated with Al Qaeda....
Wed, Mar 24, 2004General need for a reality checkSubscriber Only
December 24, 2003 00:00 IST
One wonders what is worse from Pakistan’s point of view: the growing international perception that it is a major source of global nucle...
Wed, Dec 24, 2003That slow dance with the jihadisSubscriber Only
November 20, 2003 00:00 IST
How does the crackdown against militant Islamist groups launched by the Pakistani authorities differ from previous efforts? Not much, really...
Thu, Nov 20, 2003In Pakistan, the army is just another partySubscriber Only
November 12, 2003 00:00 IST
Soldiers of any country are justified in expecting support from compatriots in return for volunteering to lay down their lives in times of w...
Wed, Nov 12, 2003General Loudmouth and his empty wordsSubscriber Only
October 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Western governments describe Pakistan as an ally in the ‘‘global war against terrorism’’, and General Musharraf has Pres...
Fri, Oct 03, 2003Towards more neighbourly tiesSubscriber Only
July 31, 2003 00:00 IST
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Thu, Jul 31, 2003The General’s global obsessionSubscriber Only
July 25, 2003 00:00 IST
In one of his many interviews and statements during his recent visit to Europe and the United States, General Pervez Musharraf called upon P...
Fri, Jul 25, 2003In the bylanes of the war on terrorSubscriber Only
July 12, 2003 00:00 IST
President George W. Bush’s personal efforts to secure a Middle East peace settlement in the hope that this would reverse the rising tid...
Sat, Jul 12, 2003The Aid SyndromeSubscriber Only
June 28, 2003 00:00 IST
General Pervez Musharraf’s Camp David meeting with President Bush has yielded the promise of a $3-billion aid package for Pakistan for ...
Sat, Jun 28, 2003General’s new clothesSubscriber Only
June 20, 2003 00:00 IST
Some of General Pervez Musharraf’s recent pronouncements about Pakistan’s political future should end the illusion of those who se...
Fri, Jun 20, 2003For General’s knowledge, nation isn’t Army paradeSubscriber Only
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If General Pervez Musharraf expected Pakistan to turn on his command like a military parade, he must now learn the difference between a para...
Fri, Jun 13, 2003The deep rot withinSubscriber Only
May 28, 2003 00:00 IST
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Wed, May 28, 2003No room for hardlinersSubscriber Only
May 07, 2003 00:00 IST
The recent thaw in India-Pakistan relations comes after a particularly difficult phase that began with the terrorist attack on India’s ...
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