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The Unpredictable Hamid Karzai

The unpredictable Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai was welcomed in Islamabad on Monday with a 21-gun salute in accordance with the ceremonious and absurdly meaningless usages of protocol. But in a sense the booming of…

The Karzai Visit

The Karzai visit

Sections of the Western media had been reporting that even though formally suspended talks on the US-Afghan bilateral security agreement had continued informally, agreement had been reached on a single…

Karzai On The Warpath

Karzai on the warpath

Perhaps of all the bizarre and grim developments in Afghanistan over the last few days the one that takes the cake is President Hamid Karzai’s press conference on Saturday. After…

Karzai’s Latest Charges

Karzai’s latest charges

In what was termed a routine meeting of the Afghan National Security Council on Sunday President Hamid Karzai instructed his ministers of defence, interior and foreign affairs to take “immediate…

What Does Karzai Want?

What does Karzai want?

When I was in Kabul in the last week of November the main news was that President Hamid Karzai and his senior aides and political allies had a long meeting…

Before Karzai Arrives

Before Karzai arrives

News that Hamid Karzai will soon be in Islamabad prompted a friend to say that it’s time for us to get our own act together and start exerting ourselves fully…

India’s Afghan Gambit

India’s Afghan gambit

On January 8, 2025, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met with Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of Afghanistan, in Dubai. This meeting marked the highest-level engagement between the…

Crooks together

EITHER Thomas Crooks — the 20-year-old sniper who shot Donald Trump during the recent election rally in Pennsylvania — was an excellent marksman and nicked only Trump’s ear deliberately, or…

TTP’s mentors

WITH the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan back in the killing business with renewed ferocity, it is time we took a look at its ideological moorings. In a nutshell, like the communist parties…