Kabul, Feb 13 (IANS) Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s recent statement that his country acted as a “hired force” in Afghanistan is one of the most direct admission of a policy failure. His remarks expose Pakistan’s internal reckoning with its Afghan policy and indicate a renewed effort to shift responsibility for Islamabad’s security crisis onto Kabul, a report mentioned. In his recent remarks in Pakistan’s National Assembly after the Islamabad suicide attack, Asif condemned terrorism an…
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Islamabad, Feb 5 (IANS) Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province faces a deepening political confrontation between Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and Governor Faisal Karim Kundi, increasing the escalating terrorism threat in the volatile region, a report has stated. Afridi’s recently reviewed the Safe Cities project. However, Kundi accused him of causing violence through protests while ignoring security duties, a report in Afghan Diaspora Network detailed. Pakistan’s Federal Information Minister Att…
Islamabad, Dec 9 (IANS) The militarisation of resource governance in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) reflects a broader pattern of Islamabad’s economic centralisation, with the region treated more as a strategic buffer than a socio-economically integrated area. Also, while the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) promised development, it has instead deepened local disillusionment, a report said on Friday. According to a report in the Afghan Diaspora Network, Pakistan’s Army Chie…