Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen visited Pakistan this week for the their first trip to Islamabad since the release of the Obama administration’s Af-Pak strategy. It could have gone better. From The New York Times:
With the chairman of the More…
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia, and Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy, are set to go before the Senate Armed Services Committee at 9:30 (ish) this morning to discuss/explain the Obama administration’s Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. Here are a couple things More…
Tomorrow morning — sigh — President Obama is going to give a speech unveiling his approach to the Afghanistan war and to the — the– the Whatever You Call It in Pakistan. Judging by what we’ve seen so far — Marc Ambinder has a first-look-preview — there will More…
Via Danger Room, it appears the Pakistani mobile-phone service provider Mobilink is expanding its coverage to South Waziristan, and extending a special offer to the Taliban:
Use of electronic telecommunication equipment by the Taliban has helped security agencies nab wanted men in the past, sources said, adding that
Bill Roggio presents a really interesting poll from the Pakistani tribal areas that strongly suggests two things. First, the Pakistanis really dislike U.S. drone strikes against Taliban and al-Qaeda targets. Second, the one thing they appear to dislike more is … the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
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