Negotiating with the Taliban is too little, too late – western allies need to fix the socioeconomic mess started long before 9/11
Mustafa Qadri
guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 08.00 GMT
Memory spans are short in modern politics, but even by those standards the relative ease with which the discourse on Afghanistan has shifted from fighting the Taliban to negotiating with them is remarkable.
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Tags: Afghanistan · Barack Obama · corruption · democracy · Hamid Karzai · justice · Mullah Omar · Pakistan · poverty · Taliban
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shaukat Aziz spent over one billion rupees on 47 foreign visits during 2004-07. He had also falsely claimed after his visit to Saudi Arabia that he had paid the expenses from his own pocket. The Foreign Office revealed this in the National Assembly on Monday.
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Tags: corruption · Pakistan · Pervez Musharraf · Shaukat Aziz
Benazir Bhutto’s widower is accusing President Musharraf of siphoning off millions from aid intended to support war on terror.
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Tags: Asif Zardari · corruption · Pakistan · Pervez Musharraf · US military aid · war on terror