I am not sanguine about a major head rolling in the Pakistan Army and the ISI over the US’s boots-on-the-ground assault at Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad hideout. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Filed under Pakistan · Tagged abbottabad, al-qaeda, hindustan times, ISI, Kakul Military Academy, news, osama, Pakistan Army, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Shuja Pasha, Yousaf Raza Gilani
The case of US undercover agent Raymond Davis has come to have a major bearing on Islamabad’s relations with Washington. There’s danger clear and present of its fallout on President Barack Obama’s stock in the US and Asif Zardari’s in Pakistan. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, February 14, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Filed under Pakistan · Tagged Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Asif Zardari, Barack Obama, CIA, Hillary Clinton, Islamabad, Pakistan, Raymond Davis, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, US, Washington, Yusuf Raza Gilani
I have a few questions for Pakistan’s elected rulers. Why have they let pass the “tragic opportunity” of floods that uprooted millions across that country— rather than using it to create bonding between our people and building trust between governments? Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Filed under Pakistan · Tagged Aisam-ul-Qureshi, angelina jolie, Anjelina Jolie, hindustan times, pakistan floods, Rohan Bopanna, S M Krishna, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, UN, Wagah check-post, Yusuf Raza Gilani
Pakistan has none but itself to blame for much of its problems: terrorism, corruption, lack of robust democratic institutions, bad governance and lately, the international opprobrium directed at its cricketing heroes and those who run the sport in that country. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, September 6, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Filed under india · Tagged 26/11 attacks, cricket, Haroon Lorgat, ICC, match fxing, Mohammed Aamer, Mohammed Asif, Mumbai terror attacks, Pak High Commissioner in London, Pakistan, S M Krishna, Salman Butt, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Sharad Pawar, spot fixing, spot-fixing scam, Wajid Shamshul Hasan
About time India and Pakistan resorted to quiet diplomacy away from the media glare. Or else they’d keep repeating Islamabad where Shah Mehmood Qureshi beat all records of bad diplomacy. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, July 19, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Filed under india · Tagged A B Vajpayee, abysmally, Agra summit, David Coleman Hedley, deposed, diplomacy, Gohar Ayub Khan, Good manners, india, Indian PM's special envoy S K Lambah, ISI, Islamabad, media glare, Multan, New Delhi, Pak PM usuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan, Pakistani territory, peace, Pervez Musharraf, PPP, President, Rahman Malik, Rawalpindi, S M Krishna, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Sharm-el-Sheikh pact, Sherry Rahman, terrorist attacks