Pakistan's Civil War
It is now clear the ISI building in Lahore was the target of Tuesday’s deadly blast. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the blast yesterday that killed at least 30 people and wounded more than 200. “We have achieved our target. We were looking for this target for a long time. It was a reaction to the […]
Pakistani Army to Taliban: Game on
Welcome news if it’s followed up on: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 7 (UPI) — Pakistani government officials Thursday said they would scrap a peace deal with the Taliban and undertake a more aggressive operation against the militants. The military announced it would begin a major offensive in the Swat Valley, site of the faltering deal between the Pakistani military […]
Interview with the Taliban
The New York Times has a fascinating story today. It’s an interview with a Taliban logistics tactician the Times has been working on for six months. He finally spills the beans on the Taliban plans for Pakistan and Afghanistan, the strategies they will use and what they fear. He was clued into the Petraeus doctrine, used to good […]
'Are We Winning?' Um, Not Really.
Sheesh. The State Department released a report today (big PDF) today that shows that terror attacks in Pakistan alone quadrupled between 2006 and 2008. Interestingly, the growth in Islamist terror attacks — 10 times more than there were in the 1990s — is in part a product of the success in Iraq. Would-be jihadists are staying at home […]
Slouching Towards Oblivion
There can be no question the Pakistani state is coming under increasing strain from militants, its political system and its international relations. The question is, Where is its breaking point and what can be done to prevent it? And if it comes, then what? Militant pressures A largely takfiri and Pashtun insurgency has been spreading out of […]
No Winners in Somalia
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on June 2, 2009 at 1:04 pm +0000 · 1 Comment
Somalia has become the war that nobody can win, at least not right now. None of the factions — the moderate Islamist government, the radical Shabab militants, the Sufi clerics who control some parts of central Somalia, the clan militias who control others, the autonomous government of Somaliland in the northwest and the semiautonomous government of […]
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