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Lawyers On The Front Lines

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, November 20th, 2007. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Pakistan

Of Pakistan’s fight against dictatorship:
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — They inhabit a world of shabby, obscure respectability, meeting clients in mazes of open-air cubicles with old typewriters and frayed files, conferring in narrow alleys around crumbling courthouses and appearing in dim, chairless chambers whose hand-scrawled schedules are tacked to the door frames outside.
But for two weeks, the […]

Can We Afford To Ignore A Collapse In Pakistan ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, November 18th, 2007. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Pakistan

In today’s New York Times, Frederick Kagan and Michael O’Hanlon say the answer is an emphatic no:
As the government of Pakistan totters, we must face a fact: the United States simply could not stand by as a nuclear-armed Pakistan descended into the abyss. Nor would it be strategically prudent to withdraw our forces from an […]

A Covert Program That Seems To Make Sense

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, November 18th, 2007. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Pakistan

The New York Times reports today, with permission of the relevant authorities, on a secret American program that has aimed to help the Pakistani Government improve the safety and security of it’s nuclear weapons arsenal:
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — Over the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million on a highly classified […]

Musharraf’s Emergency Rule Is Helping al Qaeda

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, November 8th, 2007. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Pakistan

Rather than helping in the fight against extremists, General Musaharraf’s assumption of dictatorial rule appears to be more of a benefit to the Islamists than anyone else:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of emergency rule has so alienated Pakistan’s moderate middle class that many analysts fear he has created a power vacuum that will […]

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