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Guantanamo Bay: Between War and Peace
The Guantanamo Bay detention center has become a haunting image of injustices, abuse, and torture meted out to the inmates unlawfully detained during the War on Terror. Amid calls for its closure, those still imprisoned are in a perpetual limbo between war and peace.
Was Pakistan Hiding Osama bin Laden?
The killing of Osama bin Ladin has been made the Pakistani Achilles\’ heel despite the fact that it was the effective intelligence sharing of Pakistan\’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) with the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which led to the whereabouts of bin Laden.
Zawahiri is Gone, But Not the Terrorism
Zawahiri\’s death is likely to mark the beginning of a new and potentially final chapter in al-Qaeda’s history, which began in Afghanistan in the late 1980s. However, his death does not lessen the broader threat posed by Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups operating outside of the United States.
No Win War – Pakistan Afghan Paradox: A Review
The Book ‘No Win War’ by Zahid Hussain delves into post-9/11 War on Terror dynamics, spotlighting US-Pakistan relations.
Implications of Probable Pak-Afghan Security Agreement
Setting up a seminal ‘security agreement’ between Pakistan and Afghanistan will be beneficial to both neighborly nations.
