The Baloch House

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 mustikhan  Uncategorized January 9, 2018 5 MinutesAs my friends protested in front of Pakistan embassy in Washington Sunday, in minus seven degrees Celsius, in a very novel way by gifting used shoes to Islamabad– one friend Najeeb Khan from New York even ordered a shoe online to send to the address “Ambassador Aizaz Chaudhry, C/o#ChappalChorPakistan” to the embassy — my heart ached over thoughts of old Karachi.The protestoes raised slogans, “Chappal Chor Pakistan” “Pakistan is Taliban, Taliban in Pakistan,” “Where was bin Laden, Inside Pakistan,” “Pakistan ka matlab kiya, Amreeka say dollar laa, Hindustan kay jootay kha.” (What is the meaning of Pakistan, get free dollars from USA, and get shoe-slapped by India).The protest was aimed at exposing Pakistan’s wrong, in the backdrop of the treatment the rogue state meted out to Cheetan and Avanti, spouse and mo…

January 8, 2018Lawrence Sellinhttp://www.southasiaathudson.org/blog/2018/1/8/catch-22-in-afghanistanThe conventional wisdom in Washington DC and Islamabad states that the U.S. cannot win in Afghanistan without the assistance of Pakistan. This rationalizes a policy that, at best, can only produce a perpetual stalemate. This policy will continue to fall short because of divergent American and Pakistani desires and interest. Pakistan doesn’t want the US to win in Afghanistan; instead, it wants a client state as strategic depth against its archrival, India. The US, on the other hand, wants a stable, independent, democratic and terrorist-free Afghanistan.It is the classical paradoxical situation, similar to what Joseph Heller described in his 1961 novel Catch-22. Roughly defined, it is - you can’t get out of the Army unless you are crazy and, if you want to get out of the Army, you can’t be crazy.President Trump, in a New Year’s Day tweet, threatened to cut off American aid to Pakistan if …

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© ludovic Marin / POOL / AFP | French President Emmanuel Macron is welcomed at Beijing's Capital Airport on January 8, 2018.Article text by Romain BRUNETFrench President Emmanuel Macron arrived in China Monday on a state visit aimed at boosting bilateral trade relations and clinching major commercial contracts. But will he succeed in getting better market access to the world’s second largest economy?Macron launched his visit in Xian, an ancient city deep in central China, historically known as the eastern starting point of the Silk Route. The French president’s choice was a nod to his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping’s ambitious “One Belt One Road” initiative aimed at connecting Asia and Europe.The $1 trillion (€0.8 trillion) infrastructure project, billed as “the New Silk Road” has sparked interest and anxiety in the international community with some countries viewing…

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Latest update : 08/01/2018
© ludovic Marin / POOL / AFP | French President Emmanuel Macron is welcomed at Beijing's Capital Airport on January 8, 2018.Article text by Romain BRUNETFrench President Emmanuel Macron arrived in China Monday on a state visit aimed at boosting bilateral trade relations and clinching major commercial contracts. But will he succeed in getting better market access to the world’s second largest economy?Macron launched his visit in Xian, an ancient city deep in central China, historically known as the eastern starting point of the Silk Route. The French president’s choice was a nod to his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping’s ambitious “One Belt One Road” initiative aimed at connecting Asia and Europe.The $1 trillion (€0.8 trillion) infrastructure project, billed as “the New Silk Road” has sparked interest and anxiety in the international community with some countries viewing…

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Trucks carrying NATO supplies wait to enter Afghanistan through a border crossing in Pakistan.ReutersC. CHRISTINEFAIR10:58 AM ET  GLOBALShareTweet
Before the news cycle—and the president himself—got consumed with the new White House tell-all last week, Donald Trump made a good foreign policy decision, albeit seemingly in haste. The administration announced it was suspending security assistance to Pakistan, on the grounds that the country is continuing to arm, assist, fund, and provide sanctuary to a wide array of Islamist militant groups that are murdering U.S. troops and their allies in Afghanistan. Well-placed sources involved with calculating the relevant funds have told me that this was not a planned policy and took the other agencies, not to mention the Pakistanis, by complete surprise. Rather it was an ex post facto response to Trump’s January 1, 2018 tweet vituperatively repining that:The United Stat…

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Rising exports can be a powerful engine of U.S. growthOutflows of wealth and technology weaken America's strategic standingThe U.S. should follow WTO and IMF principles to balance tradeDr. Michael Ivanovitch | @msiglobal9Published 4 Hours AgoCNBC.comJason Lee | ReutersChina's President Xi Jinping claps after his speech as he and other new Politburo Standing Committee members meet with the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China October 25, 2017.In the first 11 months of last year, Chinacashed in a cool $344.4 billion surplus on its U.S. trades. That's an 8 percent increase from the same period of 2016.Fancy any technology with that? Of course, the Chinese would say.Beijing estimates that about 40 percent of its sales to the U.S. are generated by American companies operating in China. Those companies have been allowed to set up shop in China und…

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BY MICHAELKUGELMAN ON 1/8/18 AT 10:51 AMOPINIONThis article first appeared on the Wilson Center site.The State Department announced on January 4 a freeze on most of Washington’s security aid to Pakistan.The decision won’t torpedo the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, as a rupture in relations would more likely result from a more drastic measure, such as designating Pakistan as a state sponsor of terror.Keep Up With This Story And More By Subscribing NowStill, a fragile partnership already on tenterhooks will now grow ever more tenuous, especially because cutting aid to the Pakistanis is unlikely to compel them to crack down on the terrorists that target American troops in Afghanistan.In other words, Pakistan won’t do what America wants it to do. That’s because Pakistan’s links to the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network, groups based in Pakistan that stage attacks in Afghanistan, serve longstanding nat…

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Comment31 MINS AGO BY YASMEENAFTAB ALIRules of engagement need a serious revisitThe US has always repeated the mantra of “do more” to Pakistan in WoT since it invaded Afghanistan. A war that US and NATO has failed to win after over sixteen years of boots on ground.Pakistan’s repeated narrative of being the biggest victim in terms of lives and impact on economy and the damage to the social fabric of the country has fallen on deaf ears. US should care. Reality is, it does not. It wants Pakistan to win the war for her to the exclusion of all elements and interests of other stakeholders involved.Trump’s tweet on January 1st 2018 led to a strong reaction in Pakistan. “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan…