Things categorized as 'Rasul Baksh Rais'
May 12th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
Public opinion has turned against the Taliban both in the insurgency-hit areas and in rest of the country. Another positive sign is that the major political parties are on the ...
March 17th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
This is a great victory for Pakistan. It has restored the self-esteem of the nation, and has given new confidence to civil society that a government subservient to law and ...
March 10th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
We know what happens when a country loses independent voices and feuding politicians find no mediating political force or institution. In Pakistan’s case, the military has in the past stepped ...
February 17th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
Two things are important, not for war, but for securing peace: national reconciliation within Afghanistan by bringing the Taliban into the political process; and promoting a regional approach to settling ...
October 14th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
Fighting insurgencies has always been one of the biggest challenges for modern armies trained for conventional war. Even significant experience in fighting insurgencies, retraining of the armed forces and use ...
October 7th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
What used to be an arch of crisis has deteriorated into a zone of conflict that includes Afghanistan, Central Asia and Pakistan. The outer fringes of the other two states, ...
September 30th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
The United States is the second superpower in three decades to occupy the same strategic patch across the Khyber Pass as the Soviet Union. Each of the great powers intervened ...
September 23rd by Rasul Baksh Rais.
It is heartbreaking how the optimism generated by the social movement of last year and the election held earlier this year has dissipated in just six months. ‘Troubled times’, as ...
September 16th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
Admiral Mike Mullen has made this frank evaluation after almost seven years of unending, no-holds-barred, brutal war in Afghanistan: “I’m not convinced we are winning it [the war] in Afghanistan”. ...
September 9th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
Analysts are unsure about the recent ground assault by US forces on a Pakistani village in South Waziristan. Is it a wake-up call for the political and military leadership of ...
September 2nd by Rasul Baksh Rais.
The dream of a democratic Pakistan remains distant. The struggle for this dream will be long drawn, and there are many in all sectors of society who stand in the ...
August 26th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
When I sat down to write this, I had the following questions in mind.
Will the coalition parties manage to stay together? How long will their partnership last now that Musharraf ...
August 19th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
President Pervez Musharraf has departed, having resigned to escape the humiliation of impeachment. Yet another painful chapter of Pakistan’s political history has been closed, ending the political uncertainty the country ...
August 12th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
No matter how you define or interpret the decision of the two major political parties and their smaller allies to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, it is going to be a ...
August 5th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
Never has the security environment of Pakistan been as adverse and threatening as the one we find ourselves amid today. Some elements of our regional security system are as ...
July 30th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
Pakistan and the United States have entered into a strategic partnership for the third time, and it obviously lacks the charm and excitement of the first one. But the current ...
July 15th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
The hope that the present elected leadership of the dominant party can address the many challenges facing the country is fast dissipating. There are no alternatives other than chaos, confrontation ...
