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What a fucking waste of a Sunday. Here I was minding my own business, trying to do some work, relax a little bit, surf the net and... I end...

In the preface to his book Inside Al Qaeda And The Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 , the late Syed Saleem Shahzad wrote: “I have never...

I was actually going to put up a different post, on Pak-US relations, tonight but some last minute technical glitches mean that post will ha...

So, um, Mosharraf Zaidi had recently written an article in Foreign Policy called "The Talibanization of America" , which is cert...

I have such mixed emotions about the WikiLeaks expose of the Afghan War Diaries and so many strands of thought that I want to pursue that ...

Is this what is known as farce? The unbelievably twisted mindset of some people in Pakistan? Or is it simply the callous sprinkling of salt ...

Five Rupees recently had a post about how Diplomacy Is Weird , basically because diplomatic double-speak is the engine international relati...

This story was posted earlier but some inexplicable issues with how the blog was viewable in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome has forced ...