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Address at the launching of the tele drama on 13th March 2010 at the Marriot, Islamabad |
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We are not dealing with a religiously driven insurgency in different parts of FATA & NWFP but with cults created & crafted by barbarous people who terrorize, abuse and exploit captive populations for personal enrichment. This evil must be confronted and stopped. Anyone that exults death belongs to the devil and must be shunned from our society More
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Obama’s AfPak dilemma on Wednesday, 04 Nov, 2009 |
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WHEN President Barack Obama took office he commissioned an inter-agency review of US policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan. The recommendations emerging from this review were issued in a white paper.
The paper reflected opinions held by disparate groups in the highly saturated think-tank world of Washington, yet it lacked consistency and proposed contradictory policies, thus leading to more confusion rather than bringing clarity to the policy debate. After the publication of the white paper, US policy in the region is in disarray.
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Interview on 10th Oct, 2009 |
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Khalid Aziz is a former civil servant who has spent more than 30 years in various departments under the federal and provincial governments. He headed the NWFP Planning, Environment & Development Department for six years and played a major role in transforming the province. He also remained the NWFP chief secretary. After the government service, he started his own development consultancy firm in 2003. He writes extensively on the region. There has been a debate regarding the role of civil bureaucracy in nation building. Some say it has failed, while others claim it was not allowed to do the job. Which side is telling the truth? Khalid Aziz also takes part in this debate during an exclusive interview with Daily Times at his residence. More
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Afghanistan-India-Pakistan Trilateral Meeting in New Delhi 6th to 8th June, 2009 |
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Pakistani security planners have grounds for suspecting anything India does in Afghanistan. For instance Michael Scheuer, the ex-CIA station chief in Pakistan, and anonymous author of the best seller “Hubris,” has criticized the US for thinking in Cold War terms when strategizing for war in Afghanistan. He feels that Pakistan, Afghanistan & India may be allies of the US but Pakistan has serious reservations on the role that India is allowed to play there. More
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Interview by Karan Thapur on - India Tonight |
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Karan Thapur the renowned host of the "India Tonight," program interviewed three Pakistanis who were invited to India to participate in a peace building workshop organized by the Delhi Policy Group and which included parliamentarians and civil society representatives from Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. The interview was broadcast on June 10th in India. The participants are Khalid Aziz, Bushra Gohar member of the Pakistan National Assembly and Afrasiab Khattak, senator and President of the NWFP Awami National Party. The discussions are in the context of the military operations that are taking place in Swat and other parts of NWFP and Fata. More
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The implication of operations in NWFP and FATA |
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The conduct of multiple military operations by the Pakistani forces in NWFP and Fata coincides with the planned surge of US troops in southern Afghanistan. The induction of fresh US forces on Pakistan's Baluchistan border generates its own dynamics. The surge will push the Pashtun living in the Baloch border areas inwards towards Quetta and onwards to Karachi where their extended families already live. The start of operations in Waziristan and the increasing number of skirmishes in Orakzai, Mohmand and Bajour gives a picture, whether by coincidence or design, which clearly shows how the Pashtun both in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been placed in the tweeze of death and destruction. More
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by Khalid Aziz on 28th May, 2009 |
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Approaches for dealing with insurgency in Fata – is development the answer? |
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The Al Qaeda and the Taliban are a creation of power politics and technology and have grown into a complex religio-political movement with three distinct and at times mixed objectives. One is focused westwards bent on fuelling the Afghan conflict and overturning the international framework for security and development in Afghanistan. A second is directed towards providing a safe haven for al Qaeda and its affiliates to attack Western interests. A third aims to create sphere of influence within the ‘tribal’ agencies of the FATA for establishment of an Islamic emirate and destabilizing the Pakistani state and thus take out a primary source of strength for the West in the region. In this context intervention in the economic – political fields in FATA and NWFP are more important than ever before. More
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