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Mark Collins – Pakistani Political Crisis with Canadian Connection…
…plus that pesky Kashmir problem with India. From Foreign Policy’s “AfPak Daily Brief“: Pakistan’s Supreme Court orders arrest of prime minister Chaos in the capital Just as tens of thousands of...
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Mark Collins – India, Pakistan and Kashmir: Unfortunate Timing, to Say the Least
First some context: India-Pakistan truce takes hold in Kashmir Calm has returned to disputed Kashmir after a spike in violence in which five soldiers were killed, with Pakistan calling for talks with...
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Mark Collins – Then There’s a Really Dangerous Flashpoint: Kashmir
Remember it’s at the heart of the poisonous relationship between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan: India-controlled Kashmir seethes as curfew extends to seventh day The curfew follows the secret...
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Mark Collins – The Dragon’s Army at the Heart of the Cyber Threat–Including...
Further to this question at another post, … Which of the crises listed by Mr Ricks gets the least attention from the Canadian government?.. one does hope this extensive NY Times story will get Ottawa’s...
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Mark Collins – Yet Everyone Seems to Think Afghanistan is Hopeless
Just look across this border: Pakistan’s Hazara Shias bury their dead … Mass burials for the 84 victims of a bomb attack targeting Pakistan’s Hazara Shia community have taken place in Quetta, after...
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Mark Collins – Pakistan’s Saviour–India?
A true cri de coeur, however unrealistic, from a Pakistani author: To Fight India, We Fought Ourselves ON Monday [Feb. 18], my mother’s and sister’s eye doctor was assassinated. He was a Shiite. He was...
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Mark Collins – About Time: Canadian Media Notice of Kashmir
Further to this post, Then There’s a Really Dangerous Flashpoint: Kashmir good on the National Post’s “Full Comment“: Holding India to a higher standard on Kashmir India has once again imposed a state...
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Mark Collins – Fractured Pakistan, or, Yet Everyone Seems to Think...
Further to this post, a piece in the Atlantic on Sunnis killing Shia, Hazaras in particular: … How a virulent Pakistani terrorist group is trying to annihilate an ethnic rival–and why we should be...
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Mark Collins – Downside of Democracy in Pakistan, or, Beware of Wishing for...
At Foreign Policy’s “AfPak Daily Brief“: … Many are hailing Pakistan’s upcoming parliamentary elections, the first time one elected government will be replaced by another, as a momentous achievement,...
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Mark Collins – WaPo Pipeline and Pak Headlines of the Day
1) Pipeline: Obama donors compare Keystone decision to Lincoln’s outlawing of slavery 2) Pakistan: Pakistani elections could cause complications for U.S. More on Pakistan: Downside of Democracy in...
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Mark Collins – India and Two Asian Military Cockpits
Trending down, trending up? At Foreign Policy’s “Morning Brief“ … The leaders of China and India pledged economic cooperation and downplayed their recent border dispute during a summit in New Delhi...
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Mark Collins – Canadian Technology and Pakistani (and elsewhere?) Internet...
Well, well, well–at Foreign Policy’s “AfPak Daily Brief“: … Weeks after information on the National Security Agency’s PRISM and Boundless Informant internet-monitoring programs [some deep background...
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Mark Collins – Pakistan’s Bloody Baluchistan
Further to this post, Fractured Pakistan, or, Yet Everyone Seems to Think Afghanistan is Hopeless, Part 2 [more on Afghan blood here] the latest from The Economist: Balochistan Cruel beyond belief No...
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Mark Collins – The US and India–and Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir, or…
what’s going on in what may really be the most dangerous part of the world. First, some background: “The most dangerous country in the world?” Pak Nukes and India’s “Cold Start” The Eagle and the...
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Mark Collins – Obama’s Bungling Afghan Bugout
At Foreign Policy’s ”AfPak Daily Brief“: … In an op-ed for the Friday [June 28] New York Times, Husain Haqqani, a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, implores the United States not to...
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Mark Collins – Mohajir (partition immigrants from India) Separatism in...
Rather striking at this post at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute’s Defence and Security Blog: Issues Analysis: Pakistan’s Elections, Part 1 of 3 inShare … By Adnan Qaiser … The...
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Mark Collins – Obama’s Bungling Afghan Bugout, Part 2
Further to this post, a bit of a jab at Defense Industry Daily’s ”Rapid Fire”: The Obama administration is considering with increased interest the option of leaving no American troops in Afghanistan...
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Mark Collins – The Asian Military Cockpit, Kashmir Section
Remember that this “may really be the most dangerous part of the world”–at Foreign Policy’s “AfPak Daily Brief“: Pakistani, Indian tensions continue to rise over Kashmir attacks Heightened tensions...
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Mark Collins – The NSA and Germany; US SIGINT Priorities
Spiegel Online has some good info of its own, note “Five Eyes” at penultimate paragraph: Ally and Target: US Intelligence Watches Germany Closely German intelligence services cooperate closely with the...
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Mark Collins – Post-2014 NATO and Allies Afghanistan Strength–Plus IndoPak Angle
Further to this post, Obama’s Bungling Afghan Bugout, Part 2 one does hope the Decider-in-Chief (more here) will make a decision. Soon: 1) Afghanistan’s future depends on foreign soldiers: U.S....
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