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China has been Pakistan’s firmest ally for 60 years – and it is to Beijing that Islamabad looks to counterbalance the influence of western largesse. By Mustafa Qadri Pakistan’s special relationship with the United States may have taken centre stage since the attacks of 11 September 2001, but in China it has another enduring great [...]

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By Kashif Hafeez

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* US money fueling protection racket run by warlords, corrupt Afghan officials * Report faults Pentagon for lack of effective oversight KABUL: Millions of dollars are going to insurgents and others as protection money for safe passage of American supply convoys in Afghanistan, a US Congressional report released on Tuesday claims. The Pentagon’s system of [...]

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By New Pakistan I finally got around to reading the new report by Mr Matt Waldman from London School of Economics. I could barely get through it without groaning. This is the quality of work coming out of LSE? Very disappointing. It seems like Mr Waldman is perhaps out to make a name for himself [...]

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By Muhammad Anis ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said Pakistan could not be held responsible for any terrorist attack inside the Indian territory, as members of the Senate on Thursday strongly criticised the statement of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates that it would be difficult to stop India if a Mumbai-type incident occurred again. [...]

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ISLAMABAD: Senate members have strongly condemned the recently introduced, outrageously humiliating and discriminatory screening laws for Pakistan by America at its airports. While debating the adjournment motions, submitted by senators Raza Rabbani and Senator Jan Muhammad Jamali, JI’s senator Professor Khurshid Ahmad said that Americans had always showed discriminatory attitude towards Pakistanis, whom it had [...]

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By M. Shahid Alam, originally written on 9 October 2007. In Pakistan today we encounter a paradox crying for an explanation; it is a paradox, moreover, whose exploration can bring some clarity to the predicament of the Islamicate today. In January 2002, when President George Bush defined his near-term agenda for waging wars, he fixed his [...]

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The targets of suicide bombers are telling us that some thing fishy is going on. why common men? Why not the out spoken liberals, why religious leaders and institutions why not the TV stations, cat walk and other fashion shows, why clerics, why not…

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Despite of many Western “experts” who want to depict Muslims as against West’s “Freedom, Equality, Political Representation, Independent Judicial system and Balance of Power,” their arguments become folly when we put their arguments against the realities in the Muslim World. Point to be noted is that although many Muslims eagerly engage or at least support engaging in the political process of their countries and demand democratic process, they envision Islamic characteristics in the system. The basic study of the Islamic Political system, can explain how Democracy is so close to the Islamic Political system.

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