Pakistan has been in the news for a long time of having made a game of getting money from the US to handle its home-grown terrorist problem; after all, these are terrorists that the Pakistani state is valiantly fighting against and they need money to compensate for this. A classic case of gamesmanship whereby you [...]
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After the devastating attacks in Mumbai late November 2008, the pressure on Pakistan escalated tremendously. For the last 2 decades, Pakistan has been using the policy of sponsoring terrorists (not only Pakistan, since after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Pakistan along with the US and Saudi Arabia armed people to fight against the [...] It seems that a line has been drawn after the first attack in September where US troops crossed the Afghan-Pakistan border and killed people inside Pakistan. This was supposed to be based on a decision by US President which allowed US troops to cross the border and attack inside Pakistan without asking permission from Pakistani [...] At the border with Afghanistan actually. There is an under-current of simmering tension between the United States and Pakistan, and this firing incident between the forces may be a grave portent for what may happen in the future as well. What actually happened ? It depends on whom you believe, but there were 2 US [...] |
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