In a ten-part 2018 podcast, the BBC World Service investigated the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of a former prime minister who was seeking to become Pakistan’s first female leader. Instead a suicide bomber ended her life. A friend called it to my attention (HT/Jeffrey) and it is a compelling look at the possible...
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Has Trump Ended the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan?
A new report from the New America think tank in Washington raises the possibility that the U.S. drone against suspected terrorists in Pakistan may be over. The last American drone strike in Pakistan, according to New America’s research, occurred on July 4, 2018 when a U.S. drone killed Qari Abdullah Dawar, the chief commander of the Hafiz Gul...
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India: Pakistan’s Spy Agency Involved in Kashmir Bombing
A senior Indian military commander in Kashmir says Pakistan’s main spy agency was involved in a deadly bomb attack in the disputed region that killed more than 40 Indian troops last week. The car bomb attack, which was claimed by the Pakistan-based militant group the so-called Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), killed the Indian paramilitary troops on the outskirts of...
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Autopsy of America’s Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan
In War on the Rocks, Jason Dempsey, an Afghan war veteran and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, dissects how the United States lost the war that is has supposedly been winning for the last 17 years. We blamed the Afghans. These failures of the Afghan security forces have been attributed to the...
