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The main reason why Afghanistan blames Pakistan is Pakistan's use of religion as an instrument of state policy in ways that have been detrimental to Afghanistan over the years. It is quite shocking that a country that was founded on a religious basis can so cynically exploit their own religion...

I'm not supporting India's stand, I don't know enough about this to know who's right, but World Bank can't do any thing about it. India is the World Bank's biggest client by a huge margin. Already this year, several new Bank project proposals have been rejected by the government and, as a...

This makes very little sense. What's being offered is an IBRD loan for $2 billion which is going to come with very strict conditions. There was a previous IDA (the second of the world bank's lending sources, and much less strict than the IBRD) credit for tertiary education. That project was a...

Pakistan Government Wasn't Aware of Gurdaspur Terror Plot: India's Stand NEW DELHI: A day after India warned of a "a befitting reply" to terror attacks like this week's strike in Gurdaspur in Punjab, sources say there is "no credible evidence" that the Pakistan government was aware of the plot...

By the way, there are now reports that Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead too. Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead, say Taliban sources - Pakistan - DAWN.COM My condolences to the Pakistani members, he was your valued friend and ally.

You guys need to make up your minds— yesterday there were a bunch of threads with the Pakistani members arguing that the Afghan Taliban's claims prove he didn't die in Pakistan. As I read those threads, they implicitly suggested that if he had died in Pakistan, it would have been an...

One of the Mods here, Oscar, has said a million times that Dawood is in Karachi, he's met his family members and he knows where he lives. I've met Indian diplomats who claim that it is common knowledge amongst many in Pakistan that Dawood is there and many in the establishment freely admit it in...

The NDS. And the Pakistanis could be right, the NDS could be lying.

Having the peace talks cancelled temporarily might be preferable to having them derailed in the future by Taliban factions who oppose the talks and claim that Mullah Omar is opposed to the talks. Again, I'm not saying I'm right, I just marvel at the certainty with which you know you're right, on...

How do you know what they're saying is credible? I'm not saying it's untrue, all I'm saying is that none of us know what is true in this case. The family might want continued protection from Pakistan and are, therefore, saying what is convenient. Or, you could be right, and he died in...

Which paper rejected the claim that he died in Pakistan and said he died in Afghanistan? Can you please provide a link? In your original post, which you have now removed, you had copied a NYT article. I read it twice, it neither rejected the fact that he had died in Pakistan nor did it claim...

Actually, if this goes ahead it is entirely in India's favour. It will effectively make a plebiscite compliant with the UN resolution impossible. This is one more step towards a status-quoist solution to Kashmir, which suits India fine.

It is likely that the Pakistani establishment released this information now to try and make it clear that Mullah Omar does not (can not since he's dead) oppose the peace talks. Pakistan's (and China's) strategy in Afghanistan has been working very well over the last few months, but it is a very...

It's apparent that these people equate Pakistani identity and ISIS ideology. If I were Pakistani I'd want these people to stay the hell out of Pakistan.

I work for an international organisation. Until a few years ago, China used to be our biggest client. It was exactly this sort of thing that made China the most dreaded posting for all international staff. People who had no designs whatsoever against China, and were only there to help (provide...

You are right for the most part. Parts of the Indian media have begun to get hysterical about every matter, including adopting an unbalanced hyper-nationalistic stance when it comes to foreign policy. Those parts of the media are on a power trip, they think they've become more powerful than the...

I didn't say there were tactical errors by the Pakistanis that caused the summit to fail, Dulat did. You have the quote right now, Dulat said that Brijesh Mishra said that Advani's opening position demanding Dawood spoilt the atmosphere in the pre-meeting in Delhi (not necessarily ruined the...

Did you even watch the entire interview? He said Advani asked for Dawood before the Agra summit, in a meeting in Delhi. Thereafter, Dulat says, Advani softened his stance and had great relations with the Pakistani side. He attributed the failure of the summit to tactical errors by the Pakistani...

It's like someone in Pakistan thinks of everything that could possibly go wrong and then blames R&AW in advance. So that, when and if it does happen, they can say I told you so!

A fiscal year is denoted by the year in which it ENDS. So 2014-15 is FY15. Please just google fiscal/financial year.