在美国放手阿富汗战争这件事上,巴基斯坦军事及情报机构的领导人们已经等得不耐烦,他们甚至鼓励塔利班向北约发动攻击。巴基斯坦的目的就是要阻止亲印度政府在阿富汗的形成,取而代之,设立一个傀儡伊斯兰政权。一向直言不讳的美国参谋长联席会议(US Joint Chiefs of Staff)主席,海军上将迈克•马伦(Admiral Mike Mullen)在美国参议院军事委员会(US Senate Armed Services Committee)听证会上毫不客气地指出,塔利班领导人及哈卡尼(Haqqani)网络“能在巴基斯坦境内发号施令而毫不受妨”。布鲁金斯学会(Brookings...
燃烧的冲突:美国大使馆遭遇哈卡尼组织袭击,该组织得到巴基斯坦政府支持(上);美国的控制激起巴基斯坦民众的抗议
华盛 顿:巴基斯坦对阿富汗塔利班的支持使华盛顿(Washington)与伊斯兰堡(Islamabad)间的关系进一步紧绷到了前所未有的程度。尽管巴基斯 坦长期以来资助塔利班,为其提供避难场所,但是今年秋天暴乱分子对位于喀布尔(Kabul)的美国大使馆以及其他重要北约机构的袭击,无疑是在火上浇了把 油。眼下巴基斯坦正鼓励塔利班进行各种煽动性的攻击,这不禁令人生疑:...
The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt’s largest opposition group, so it’s no surprise that its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, secured nearly half the votes in parliamentary elections. Campaign rhetoric proposed alcohol restrictions, gender-segregated beaches, and revision of Egypt’s peace...
CAIRO: Egypt’s new parliament is taking seat amid ongoing protests on the streets, deteriorating relations with the US over impending trial of NGO workers and threats that the US might review $1.3 billion in Egyptian military aid. Thus, it’s...
US President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters, intent on overturning some longstanding policies, have shown a penchant for not trusting scientific, government or intelligence experts. The CIA is responsible for providing national-security intelligence to the president and policymakers – and in...
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WikiLeaks reports that the US Central Intelligence Agency has amassed a wide range of hacking tools for televisions, phones and consumer products that rely on the internet. “The alleged cyber-weapons are said to include malware that targets Windows, Android, iOS, OSX and Linux computers as well as...
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The UN Refugee Convention, drafted after World War II, strives to balance the needs of refugees and governments, but cannot help every displaced person. The world has seen great advances in communications, transportation and security, but a substantially larger global population, increasing...
Angela Merkel won a fourth term as Germany’s chancellor and reports she will keep an open mind in forming a coalition government. “Damaged by her decision two years ago to allow more than one million migrants into Germany, Merkel’s conservative bloc secured 33 percent of the vote, losing 8.5 points...
The young film industry in Honduras, a country of 9 million people, struggled to produce a film each year only a decade ago. But the industry boomed in 2017 with more than a dozen films produced. And for the first time, a Honduran film – Morazán - was considered for an Academy Award, joining the...
Spreading magic: Hondura’s Hispano Durón directed Morazán, and the film became the first Honduran film to be considered for an Academy Award
SAN PEDRO SULA: Central America was united as one nation for a brief and volatile period in the mid-19th...
Bhutan is nestled among the Himalayas and between Asia’s two giant powers – India to the south and China to the north. The small kingdom, a country of 750,000, has long had ties with India. So India watches closely as China steps up attempts to settle longstanding border differences and strengthen...
Himalayan balance: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right in top photo, meets with Bhutan's Foreign Minister Damcho Dorji in Beijing; Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj welcomes Dorji
THIMPHU: China has begun courting the only neighboring...