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Asian Affairs

Jan 3, 2010: South Korea’s Lee: Economy, Improved Inter-Korea Ties Are Priorities
Comments: 0 | Categories: Asian Affairs
Lee Chi-dong, YonHap News Agency, Seoul, South Korea, January 4, 2010 -- President Lee Myung-bak said Monday January 4, 2010] he will make it his priority this year to reinvigorate the economy and "open a new chapter" in tumultuous inter-Korean...

Dec 31, 2009: Pakistan: ‘Coalition Forces Shouldn’t Leave Afghanistan in Haste’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Asian Affairs
Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) spokesman, told journalist on December 30, 2009, that “The decision to leave Afghanistan should be taken when the country is able to look after itself effectively.” See “Coalition should not leave Afghanistan in haste,...

Nov 11, 2009: Dawn.com Describes ‘Sri Lanka’s Post-War Scenario’
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The Pakistani publication Dawn.com reported November 11, 2009, that, “Having won [34-year old] war [in Sri Lanka], the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa is now struggling to win the peace.” Reporter Irfan Husain writes: After the fighting ended in May,...

Nov 8, 2009: Is Pakistan Creating Another Enemy? If so, Why?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Asian Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, a co-founder of Pulse Media, “a collaborative political weblog featuring work by a variety of writers, activists and academics based in five continents,” has an insightful analysis in Le Monde Diplomatique of Pakistan’s war against the Pakistani...

Nov 8, 2009: U.S. Army chief of staff: ‘We Need Additional Forces in Afghanistan…’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Asian Affairs , Military Affairs
General George Casey, the U.S. Army chief of staff, stated November 8, 2009, on the NBC program Meet the Press that, he believes “we need to put additional forces into Afghanistan to give General [Stanley] McChrystal the ability to both...

Nov 7, 2009: ‘The Pakistan-Iran border is On the Boil Again’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Asian Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
On November 2, 2009, Nasim Zehra, an Islamabad, Pakistan-based security analyst, noted in The International News of Pakistan that, “The Pakistan-Iran border is on the boil again.” According to the analyst, “the current problem” is one “of the depleting trust...

Nov 6, 2009: Asian Times Writer Foresees an Entity Called Pashtunistan
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Recommended: Asia Times Online Roving Eye columnist Pepe Escobar’s two part analysis in Asia Times Online on the Pashtuns’ role Afghanistan/Pakistan conflict headlined UNDER THE AFPAK VOLCANO, Part 1"Welcome to Pashtunistan and “UNDER THE AFPAK VOLCANO, Part 2: Breaking up...

Nov 6, 2009: Is Kashmir the ‘Forgotten Front’?
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“Kashmir is a void in U.S. foreign policy, all the more noticeable for its absence in our diplomats' discourse,” writes Joshua Gross, a former “director of media relations for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington,” D.C, USA, in a November...

Oct 23, 2009: Is Pakistan's War in Waziristan the Brainchild of General Stanley McChrystal?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Asian Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times Online's Pakistan Bureau Chief whose reporting and analysis is comparable to that of the esteemed Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, has an excellent analysis of the political and military situation in Pakistan and how it is...

Jul 31, 2009: Is Fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistan Spilling Into Tajikistan?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Afghanistan War , Asian Affairs , Caucasus & Central Asia
Abdujalil Abdurasulov, a contributor to The Christian Science Monitor, reported July 30, 2009, that “A spate of militant clashes in Tajikistan may indicate that the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan are spilling beyond their borders – a top concern for...