ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Pakistan on Tuesday proposed a joint mechanism with India to investigate the Mumbai carnage as part of its offer of complete cooperation in efforts to unearth "the hands behind the dastardly act". The proposal was made at a briefing by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to foreign diplomats a day before US […]
Today, I want to go over recent cooperative measures and conferences in our beloved Central Asian region. With Obama soon to be in the White House and multilateralism all the rage, I thought it was about time. In all seriousness, these cooperative efforts regarding such important transnational issues as terrorism, trade, drug trades, and disease […]
Robert Mugabe's thugocracy can surely endure run-of-the-mill catastrophes like the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) shutting down Harare's water supplies to try to strangle the country's cholera epidemic and the concomitant riots that have resulted. But for some time the wild card of Mugabe's ability to endure has been the loyalty of the police, military, […]
In The Mail & Guardian, columnist Adriaan Basson asks the following: Did the African National Congress jump the gun by recalling former president Thabo Mbeki on the strength of an untested, contentious high court judgement? It is a good question, and Basson strongly implies that the answer is yes. Let me be even more blunt: […]
Martin Indyk, of the Brookings Institute and numerous other institutions of repute, and the equally credentialed Gary Samore of the Council on Foreign Relations co-directed a research initiative called Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President. You can read summaries of their work from Brookings here and from CFR here, or […]
Free State provincial ANC leader Ace Magashule recently made the case that Jacob Zuma is suffering like Jesus Christ.: “Jesus was persecuted. He was called names and betrayed. It's the same kind of suffering Mr Zuma has had to bear recently, but he's still standing strong. He's not giving up,” Magashule, the ANC leader in […]
The actual costs of Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism are probably incalculable. Nonetheless, a recent Harvard University study gives at least some indication of the consequences of the very real damage he did on this issue. According to the study, access to retrovirals and other drugs likely would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people. […]
Those who have been following the dueling versions of what happened in South Ossetia last August can find the latest installment of The Truth in today's Wall Street Journal. In it, Mikheil Saakashvili attacks “misleading reports” by an OSCE observer who was in South Ossetia on August 7. It was those reports, you may recall, […]
I just finished Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid's Foreign Affairs piece on US/NATO Afghan and Pakistani policy, titled ‘From Great Game to Grand Bargain: Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan.‘ Rubin, who has a blog and a forthcoming book, and Rashid are two giants in the field and I was looking forward at what […]
During my recent trip to Pakistan, once again, I had the opportunity to travel across the country, meet and listen to people from all walks of life and I am terribly sad to the see that people in Pakistan have increasingly become negative and cynical about everything. It is impossible to find anyone positive about […]
There is a new wave of politeness and contrition surrounding South African politics these days, as everyone seems to be apologizing to someone. The Congress of the People has apologized for intemperate remarks from some of its members about Jacob Zuma. Months after the fact ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has said he is […]
The United States treasury has taken the step of blacklisting four allies of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. Their assets are likely to be seized where possible and it will now be verboten to conduct business with the four men. Imposing this pariah status is welcome for what it is worth, but realistically it is not […]
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