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Trump's Muslim ban will only help terrorists: Pakistan The News International January 31, 2017 Tuesday
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Commenting on Donald Trump's visa ban on seven Muslim countries, Interior Minister said this would only
strengthen terrorists' agenda and harm innocent people.
Answering a question regarding visa restrictions imposed by United States on some Muslim countries, Chaudhary Nisar
said it was wrong to link Islam with terrorism and added 1.5 billion Muslims live peacefully in the world, however, a
handful of wayward people were negating the teachings of Islam.
An executive order signed by Trump on Friday suspended the arrival of all refugees for a minimum of 120 days, Syrian
refugees indefinitely and bars citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days.
He said the worst sufferers of terrorism were Muslims and they had given the most sacrifices against this scourge.
The minister observed that visa restrictions imposed by the US would not affect terrorists but cause difficulties for
victims of terrorism.
Passport offices in every district:
Chaudhry Nisar said 14 more Executive Passport Offices would be set up in different parts of the country soon, in order
to provide standard facilities to citizens.
At an inaugural ceremony of a state-of-the-art Executive Passport Office here at Blue Area, he said work was in
progress on such Centres in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and Gujranwala and these would be inaugurated by
March this year.
He said with inauguration of this office in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, the ministry had accomplished another milestone
in establishing network of these modern offices for public facilitation.
He said the government was taking solid steps to provide modern facilities to the citizens and added work was also in
progress on a scheme under which a passport office would be established in each district.
Ch. Nisar said by March this year each district in the country would have a passport office which would cater to needs
of the local community.
He said during past 69 years only 94 passport offices were established but present government had started work on the
scheme and 74 more such offices would be ready within next few months.
The minister said a number of NADRA mega offices will also become operational this year in all major cities.
Missing bloggers:
On another question, he said all the missing bloggers have returned to their homes safe and sound.
He said the steps taken by present government to recover missing persons had also been acknowledged by concerned
families.
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Trump's Muslim ban will only help terrorists: Pakistan The News International January 31, 2017 Tuesday
About Dawn leak issue, Ch. Nisar said he would be in a better position to comment as soon as the report is received,
adding that the Commission investigating the matter still had time till February 7 to present its report.
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'Trump will support Pak-India friendship' The News International December 17, 2016 Saturday
December 17, 2016 Saturday
'Trump will support Pak-India friendship'

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Donald Trump will support "greater friendship" between India and Pakistan, a prominent Indian-American industrialist
has said as he met the President-elect and discussed issues ranging from growing India-US trade to relations with China
and Pakistan, Indian media reported.
Shalabh Kumar, founder and president of the Republican Hindu Coalition (RHC), met Trump, Vice President-elect
Mike Pence, Trump's daughter Ivanka and sons Don and Eric and other senior officials from the incoming Trump
administration at the Trump Towers. "It was a great meeting," Kumar told after the nearly 25 minute meeting with
Trump at his luxurious headquarters in Manhattan.
Kumar, who played a leading role in mobilising 'Hindus for US' and was appointed to the Transition Finance and
Inauguration committee, said the Trump administration is "looking forward to having a great relationship with India."
"We also talked about policies with respect to China and with respect to Pakistan and how India views them," Kumar
said. Kumar added that Trump is "very well aware" that terrorism is a big concern for India and "he is also confident
in a way that he could persuade Pakistan to do the right things and actually create a friendship between India and
Pakistan.
"His attitude is always that you can do it, you put your mind to it and do it in a business-like manner. So you can do
that." Kumar further added that Trump will be "very straight" with Pakistan and if Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif
focusses on development and education in his country, then even the RHC and the Trump administration is with
Pakistan and will support it.
Kumar said in the meeting they discussed that Pakistan needs to control terrorism and "the fact that if there was an
opportunity to have greater friendship between India and Pakistan, he (Trump) will be for it. "If anything he (Trump)
can do to foster friendship, he is a businessman and wherever through business he could help create peace and
prosperity, he is all for that," Kumar said.
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'Trump will clear bill to declare Pakistan a terror state' The News International November 19, 2016 Saturday
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US President elect will approve a Congress bill to declare Pakistan a terror state when the legislation reaches him in
what would be a shot in arm for India's anti-terror narrative, said Shalabh Kumar, a key Indian-origin member of
Donald Trump's advisory council and prominent businessman.
"President Trump and PM Narendra Modi will undoubtedly share a good chemistry. The India-US partnership is
expected to touch new heights under Trump Presidency.
"A key step that the new president is expected to take is to give assent to the US Congress bill that has been introduced
in the House to declare Pakistan a terror state when the legislation reaches him," Kumar told ET in an exclusive
interaction over phone from USA days after the presidential polls.
Two influential US Congressmen for the first time ever introduced a legislation to designate Pakistan as a terror state by
the administration in Washington last September. Congressman Ted Poe, the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on
Terrorism, along with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher introduced the 'Pakistan State Sponsor of Terrorism
Designation Act' in the House on Tuesday.
The legislation calls on the US administration to provide a report on designation of Pakistan as a state sponsor of
terrorism.
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Better to stay engaged with Pakistan, says US Dawn (Pakistan) November 20, 2016 Sunday
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Better to stay engaged with Pakistan, says US

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Working with Pakistan is a better option for fighting terrorism in South Asia than declaring it a state sponsor of
terrorism, says US State Department.
The statement follows a move in the US Congress for declaring Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism because of its
alleged links with certain militant groups.
Reports in the US media suggest that the incoming Trump administration is considering proposals to back the
congressional move.
The issue was raised at the State Department news briefing on Friday afternoon as well where spokesman John Kirby
said that the Obama administration, which would complete its second and final term in January, preferred to stay
engaged with Pakistan because it believed this was a better way of fighting terrorism.
"We routinely discuss with our Pakistani counterparts the importance for continued focus and energy on the
counterterrorism efforts and the terrorism threat," he said.
The discussions with Pakistan, Mr Kirby added, focused on the need to combat the groups that were still engaging in
terrorist activities. "Our focus on this and the focus that we want to see Pakistan expend on it, that's not going to
change," he said.
Asked if the Obama administration would support the move in Congress and a signature campaign initiated by
American citizens of Indian origin, Mr Kirby said: "I'm not going to get into a discussion about that."
The State Department official said that while he would not speculate how the Trump administration would deal with
the issue, he believed that the US "focus on the importance of regional, collaborative, and effective counterterrorism
operations" would not change.
Mr Kirby also emphasised the need for countries in the South Asian region to pool their resources for combating
terrorism, saying that the US "interest in seeing all the countries in the region .. expend a great deal of energy and
effort and leadership" in fighting this menace would not change either.
"I just can't speculate about the future and I wouldn't do that," said the State Department official when asked how
President-elect Donald Trump's pre-election statements would affect his policies as president.
Mr Trump made numerous statements on Pakistan during the campaign but not all were negative and did not
necessarily hint at a hostile shift in the US policy towards Islamabad under his administration.
In one statement, Mr Trump also hinted at playing the role of a "mediator or arbitrator" between India and Pakistan. "If
it was necessary I would do that. If we could get India and Pakistan getting along, I would be honoured to do that. That
would be a tremendous achievement.. I think if they wanted me to, I would love to be the mediator or arbitrator," he
said in an interview with the Hindustan Times.
In an earlier statement he said that Pakistan was a vital country for the United States because it had nuclear weapons.
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He told Fox News in May he would favour keeping nearly 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan "because it's adjacent and
right next to Pakistan which has nuclear weapons."
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'Pakistan bowing to Trump-Modi pressure' The News International February 23, 2017 Thursday
February 23, 2017 Thursday
'Pakistan bowing to Trump-Modi pressure'

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Pakistan's abrupt defanging of terrorist leader Hafiz Saeed is a result of behind the scenes effort by the Trump
administration led by a "new and tough sheriff in town" and a "skilled and receptive partner" (PM Narendra Modi) in
New Delhi who, together form a "mortal threat to Islamist terrorism everywhere," US President Donald Trump's
Indian-American acolyte Shalabh Kumar has said.
"Lost in the misleading reports about Muslim bans and debates about much-needed vetting on refugees from the Middle
East has been the Trump administration's quiet but successful effort behind the scenes to advance policies that crack
down on terrorism....," Kumar wrote in a comment on a pro-Trump media outlet.
In July 2016, Kumar became a public supporter of Donald Trump's candidacy in the Presidential Election, emerging as
one of the biggest donors.
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Trump's visa policy will only help terrorists: Nisar Dawn (Pakistan) January 31, 2017 Tuesday
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The visa policies of the new American president will only benefit terrorists and have a negative impact on the global
alliance against terrorism, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Monday.
'The new US visa policy will not harm terrorists, but will add to the woes of victims of terrorism,' he told reporters
after inaugurating the first executive passport office in the capital.
An executive order, signed by President Donald J. Trump on Friday, banned all individuals and dual-nationals from
seven Muslim countries from entering the US for 90 days.
Citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia are affected by the ban, which has already been
challenged in and temporarily overturned by American courts.
However, travellers, including US residents and citizens who had origins from these seven countries, are being detained
for vetting at US airports - a move that has inspired widespread protests at terminals across the US.
On Sunday, President Trump's Chief of Staff Reince Priebus also said that the ban could be extended to other countries,
including Pakistan.
'There are around 1.5 billion Muslims around the world and only a few hundred or thousand of them were projecting a
distorted picture of Islam, which is otherwise a religion of peace,' Chaudhry Nisar said.
Islam or Muslims must not be blamed for the individual acts of stray elements, he stressed.
He recalled his address during the Conference on Combating Violent Terrorism, held in Washington in February 2015,
where he had called upon certain countries to abandon 'Islamophobia' in order to win the war against terrorism. He
stressed that Muslims were the biggest victims of terrorism.
He said the joint resolution adopted at the conclusion of the conference, attended by some 60 countries, also said that
violent extremism and terrorism should not be associated with any religion.
When asked to comment on a statement by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan who had asked the US to
ban visas for Pakistanis, the interior minister said that he was unaware how Mr Khan connected the visa issue with a
solution to the problems facing Pakistan.
At a rally in Sahiwal on Sunday, the PTI chief had said that he wished Donald Trump would also ban US visas for
Pakistani nationals so that 'we can focus on fixing our country'.
Missing persons
The minister also reiterated that enforced disappearances were not state policy and said the interior ministry had taken
efficient steps for the recovery of the five bloggers who went missing in the first week of January.
'I have already said in the Senate that the government neither owned the policy of missing persons, nor supported
anyone who indulged in this practice,' he said.
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Trump's visa policy will only help terrorists: Nisar Dawn (Pakistan) January 31, 2017 Tuesday
He said that all the missing men had safely returned to their homes, adding that he had sent a team to meet Professor
Salman Haider and asked him if he wanted to bring on the record what had happened to him, but he had refused to do
so.
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A fresh approach The News International February 16, 2017 Thursday
February 16, 2017 Thursday
A fresh approach
BYLINE: Atia Ali Kazmi
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Every US president is sensitive about his legacy. Donald Trump is equally conscious of how Trumponianism will be
remembered. Pakistan's relations with the US during the new president's tenure are likely to shape his legacy, even
though South Asia does not currently appear to be a top priority on America's foreign policy menu. President Trump's
policy towards Pakistan could present a significant departure from his predecessor.
Both countries have some key common interests. In pursuit of these common interests, Pakistan can play a vital role
towards Trumponianism. In return, the least that Pakistan would expect is an end to the eight years of Obama's policies
against it.
Notwithstanding his xenophobia and singular focus on so-called 'Islamic' terrorism, Trump should be appreciated for
standing up for the common Americans who were being neglected earlier.
The US and Pakistan can apply some minor course-settings in pursuit of the common goal of combating terrorism.
Islamabad has signalled that it is amenable to readjustments. The decision to place Hafiz Saeed under house arrest
seems to be the first step. Washington DC could also reciprocate by adopting nuances in its policy and eschewing the
word 'Islamic'. Islam does not condone terrorism as it is a religion of peace. As one of the most populous Islamic states,
Pakistan wants to defeat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
Stabilising Afghanistan is a key common interest between Pakistan and the US. A peaceful Afghanistan will allow the
Trump administration to singularly focus on defeating militant organisations elsewhere and Pakistan can play a crucial
role in this regard. It is the only country in the world that has successfully brought the terrorism index down over the
past three years.
Trump's proposed role in the resolution of the Kashmir dispute could not only stabilise the Subcontinent but South Asia
as well. There are signs that the US might reach a detente with Russia and China under Trump. The US president has
climbed down from his past threats and has agreed to honour the 'One-China' policy. This appears to be a fantastic idea
but a detente among China, Russia and the US can reduce global security overloads - particularly those in South Asia.
Being a successful entrepreneur and pragmatic businessman, Trump has taken an unprecedented approach in stabilising
the global order that came under considerable strain over the last decade. Even before entering the Oval Office, he took
charge of the policy towards China. The Trump administration stepped out of Trans-Pacific Partnership that was
believed to be a strategy to contain China.
If the US and China readjust their approach towards trade and currency valuation issues, the pivot to Asia's policy of the
erstwhile Obama administration will scale down. The process would reduce the overload of the previous administration
and enable Trump to stabilise the global order and improve relations with Pakistan.
Stability in Sino-US relations and their economic rebalance would contribute towards the improvement of the US
economy. The US could then participate in $58 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor - which is a flagship project
of China's 'One Belt One Road' economic policy for Asia, Europe and Africa. If the desired rapprochement eludes Sino-
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A fresh approach The News International February 16, 2017 Thursday
US relations, Trump's America First strategy would be the initial casualty. The economies of the two countries are
intrinsically linked to each other and military competition does not suit America's long-term interests.
A readjustment in Pakistan's relations with the US and plans to break away from the Obama administration's approach
will depend on the initial steps that the Trump administration takes in its policy towards the region. Reinforcing the
poor choices of the past would only lead to instability and complicate the goal of eliminating terrorism and reducing
external stresses on the ailing US economy. No time should be lost in taking a fresh start and establishing mutually
agreed rules of engagement between both countries.
No US administration can afford to adopt a collision course with the domestic and international players. Such an
approach can quickly isolate it from the rest of the world and the Trump administration is mindful of this pitfall. The
power structure in the US has a system of checks and balances in which every ambition is made to counteract another
ambition.
Trump cannot afford to be a self-determining architect of the country's strategic roadmap. His approach has unsettled
those who are used to the status quo. A fresh approach towards strengthening Pak-US relations would be key to
Trumponianism.
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Zardari throws his weight behind Trump in latest interview The News International January 24, 2017 Tuesday
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Former President and current PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari threw his weight behind newly elected President of the
United States of America, Donald J. Trump, urging critics to give him 90 days in office before jumping to conclusions.
In an interview to an American newspaper, Asif Zardari urged critics to give time to the newly elected American
President and advised them from jumping to conclusions.
"Critics should not write off Donald Trump. He should be given a chance to leave his effects on the region," said
Zardari. "It would be premature to say anything about Trump at the moment," he added.
Zardari said it would become apparent after a span of 90 days whether Donald Trump would take practical steps or just
talk. He also highlighted the fact that Donald Trump won against Hillary Clinton during the US Presidential elections
of 2016 in those states where defeating the Democrats was deemed impossible.
Asif Zardari urged the American President to contact regional and world leaders in order to forge a new policy with
regard to Afghanistan. He claimed that at the moment, the battle for minds against terrorists was being lost in
Afghanistan.
"The battle for minds against terrorists has been lost in Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Libya," he said.
Zardari further claimed that Trump should avail the chances to defeat terrorism which Barack Obama did not. He
urged Trump to do what Obama could not, as the President of the United States.
"Barack Obama did not keep appropriate contact with any Chief Executive of Pakistan," said Zardari. "After Richard
Holbrooke's death, the American administration did not pay due attention to diplomacy," he added.
Asif Zardari urged Donald Trump to make a policy against terrorism with Pakistan's help. He said that in order to
enhance confidence building and thwart extremist mentality in the region, an effective policy must be in place.
The former Pakistani president urged Donald Trump to immediately appoint a senior delegate of South Asia. He
suggested the name of Anne W. Patterson for the post of U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Trump asks CIA to be ready for wars against 'Islamic terrorism' Dawn (Pakistan) January 23, 2017 Monday
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Trump asks CIA to be ready for wars against 'Islamic terrorism'

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On his first full working day as US president, Donald Trump reiterated his pledge to eradicate 'Islamic terrorism'
from the face of the planet and alerted the American intelligence agencies to be ready for wars.
'Radical Islamic terrorism. And I said it yesterday - it has to be eradicated just off the face of the Earth. This is evil.
This is evil,' Mr Trump told officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) when he visited its headquarters at
Langley, Virginia, on Saturday.
In his inaugural speech on Friday, the new US president vowed to 'unite the civilised world against radical Islamic
terrorism' and pledged to 'eradicate (it) completely from the face of the Earth'.
President says journalists among most dishonest human beings
During the long campaign for the 2016 presidential election, Mr Trump often criticised Barack Obama for not using the
terms 'radical Islamic terrorism' and said that unless the enemy was openly identified, it could not be defeated.
In his speech at the CIA headquarters, the new president went a step ahead and warned his intelligence officials, and the
American nation, that the war against the radical form of Islam was far from over.
Mr Trump said that when he was young, he heard from one of his instructors that 'the United States has never lost a
war'. But now, 'it's like we haven't won anything. We don't win anymore.'
Referring to America's longest foreign war, in Afghanistan, Mr Trump said it had continued for so long because the
United States did not use its full might. 'We have not used the real abilities that we have. We've been restrained,' he said
while promising CIA officials more powers than they have ever had to combat the country's enemies.
'We have to get rid of ISIS [Islamic State militant group]. Have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice,' he declared,
earning a warm applause from the audience.
'There can be wars between countries, there can be wars.... This is a level of evil that we haven't seen. And you're going
to go to it, and you're going to do a phenomenal job. But we're going to end it. It's time. It's time right now to end it,' he
said.
He told CIA officials that previous governments had not given them enough support but he would change this. 'I want to
just let you know that I am so behind you and I know, maybe sometimes you haven't gotten the backing that you've
wanted and you're going to get so much backing. Maybe you're going to say - please don't give us so much backing,' he
said.
Mr Trump also criticised the US media for reporting that he had a feud with the American intelligence community.
'They are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth .... I am with you 1,000 per cent,' he said.
Before taking oath, Mr Trump had criticised the CIA for saying that the Russian intelligence had hacked the 2016
elections and that the Russians had materials that they could use to blackmail him.
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Trump asks CIA to be ready for wars against 'Islamic terrorism' Dawn (Pakistan) January 23, 2017 Monday
'Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to 'leak' into the public. One last shot at me. Are we
living in Nazi Germany?' Mr Trump had tweeted on Jan 11.
The president's decision to talk about his war with the media and complain about the reporting of the size of the crowd
at his inauguration ceremony, however, irked CIA veterans.
'Former CIA director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump's despicable display of self-
aggrandisement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes,' Mr Brennan's former deputy chief of staff Nick
Shapiro said in a statement.
Other veterans said that many in the audience were troubled by the political tone of the speech, in which Mr Trump
speculated about how many people in the room might have voted for him.
CIA veterans argued that their agency was not a political party, it was always loyal to the president, whoever he or she
might be.
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Québec attack The News International February 1, 2017 Wednesday
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Québec attack
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Amidst a growing climate of Islamophobia around the world, on Sunday evening a mosque in Quebec City in Canada
was targeted in an act of terrorism. Six Muslim men present in the mosque were killed after a 27-year-old white
university student shot them. The student, Alexandre Bissonnette, was known to be a symphathiser of US President
Donald Trump and for putting forward anti-Muslim, racist and other highly bigoted views on his Facebook page.
Such attacks are not new. But the context and the atmosphere of fear in which this one has come has amplified its
impact. In the US, President Trump has banned the entry of citizens from seven Muslim countries, citing the fear that
they may bring terrorism to the country. The irony is that the same atmosphere of terrorism seems to have inspired a
white man to attack immigrant Muslims in such a brutal way. It is perhaps also no coincidence that initially a Moroccan
man was held in connection with the attack. However, in what can be possibly the only positive to see in all this, for the
first time such an attack by a white man is being called an 'act of terrorism'. Notably, it was Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau himself who called it a 'terrorist' attack. But the question is whether this acknowledgement that white
people too can commit acts of terrorism will translate into something concrete. In the Quebec case, a pro-refugee group
has claimed it had reached out to the police and warned them that this man could be a threat. No action was taken. There
is no doubt that had he been Muslim, the reaction would have been far more severe.
The larger problem now is that the atmosphere of fear created by the rise of the far right and the election of Donald
Trump has created a world in which hate will only spur more vigilante violence. The attack in Canada, which is still
considered a sanctuary for immigrants, has sent shockwaves among many other immigrant communities. There is an
atmosphere of fear and animosity that has been created in the West - and fed by mainstream politicians. When Jo Cox,
an MP for the UK's Labour Party, was killed by a pro-Brexit White supremacist, it was put down as an 'anomaly' that
had nothing to do with the hate that the pro-Brexit campaign had spewed against immigrants and those who support
them. This hate has dominated the political agenda for far too long. As we watch the struggle of opinions that is now
being played out across the globe we can only hope that views such as those of Canada's Trudeau will somehow win
out. The only consequence of the uncontrolled hatred being seen from the US to Europe is uncontrolled violence. One
thing is clear: with Trump in the Oval Office and far right leader Marine le Pen leading France's opinion polls, the
problem of Islamophobia and anti-immigrant terrorism is the major new challenge for progressives around the world.
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India fails to isolate Pakistan: Sethi The News International December 6, 2016 Tuesday
December 6, 2016 Tuesday
India fails to isolate Pakistan: Sethi

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Najam Sethi on Monday said the attitude adopted by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi at Heart of Asia Conference was as expected.
However, the Pakistani leaders anticipated that and decided to send Sartaj Aziz so as to foil India's efforts to isolate
Pakistan, said Sethi in Geo News programme 'Aapas ki Baat'. He said the Indian and Pakistani media agreed on the
point that Pakistan had been isolated.
According to Sethi, Sartaj is actually the foreign minister and no one can present Pakistan's case better than him. We do
not have a better finance and foreign policy expert than Sartaj who will never take any step without consultation with
the prime minister and the ISI.
Sartaj will never do anything that may irritate either the prime minister or the security establishment. He presented the
argument in Amritsar, which was expected from him.
India failed to isolate Pakistan at Heart of Asia Conference, as allies like Russia and Iran did not support her.
Furthermore, India too did not name Pakistan while criticising.
Sethi said Ghani didn't insult Pakistan and only argued that no development was possible in Afghanistan without peace;
therefore, Pakistan should utilise the funds allocated for his country to root out terrorism.
He said Indian made every effort to curb the voice of Pakistan and the Pakistani journalists were not allowed to talk to
the ambassador for the very reason.
Sethi said there was no need to highlight the weaknesses of Afghanistan at the conference because the forum was meant
to support, not criticise, her.
According to Sethi, we would have to accept that our Afghan policy has failed and think why Ghani, who was very
close to Pakistan soon after assuming the office, has now develop very intimate relation with India.
The new army chief, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, faces many problems at the eastern and western borders and would have
to pay attention to these issues while sitting with the prime minister.
The world is not satisfied with nuclear weapons of countries like Pakistan. We would have to make her a strong, stable
country, which could give the world a feeling of security. Pakistan would have to follow a responsible behaviour instead
of issuing tough threatening statements.
Pakistan is still considered a terrorism centre. India has accused Pakistan of the recent three terrorism acts. The world
holds Pakistan responsible for any terrorism act committed anywhere by non-state actors.
It is an illusion that terrorism has been eliminated by removing the terrorists from Fata. There are people in Pakistan
who aren't in the control of anyone. No one would acknowledge the sacrifices given in war against terror if Pakistan
does not move forward. We would have to decide that ideology, narrative and extremism are the basis of terrorism.
Sethi said US president-elect Donald Trump and Nawaz had an excellent conversation, adding that one could expect
anything from Trump and the telephonic talk was also part of that.
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India fails to isolate Pakistan: Sethi The News International December 6, 2016 Tuesday
He said the warm tone of Trump even surprised Nawaz and the PML-N was so happy that a press release was
especially issued. On the other hand, the US media censured Trump because it was against Pakistan, he added.
He said it would be a grave misapprehension if the government or the prime minister though they had developed
personal relationship with Trump. Sethi also praised the prime minister for renaming the Quaid-e-Azam University
Physics Department to honour Dr Abdus Salam.
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US hints at extending visa ban to Pakistan The News International January 30, 2017 Monday
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US hints at extending visa ban to Pakistan

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A day after US President Donald Trump ordered no-visa policy for seven Muslim states, a White House official hinted
that the ban could be extended to other countries, including Pakistan.
'You can point to other countries that have similar problems like Pakistan and others - perhaps we need to take it
further,' White House chief of staff Reince Priebus told CBS News.
'But for now, immediate steps, pulling the band-aid off, is to do further vetting for people travelling in and out of those
countries.'
In the most sweeping use of his presidential powers since taking office a week ago, Trump signed an executive order
on Friday to pause the entry of travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for at least 90 days.
Defending the US president's widely denounced order, Priebus said: 'This is not a Muslim ban.' He said, 'Trump has
solely identified countries where terrorism is taking place and could lead to danger in the US'.
'All this is identifying the seven countries - and the reason we chose those seven countries is those were the seven
countries that both the Congress and the Obama administration identified as being the seven countries that were most
identifiable with dangerous terrorism taking place in their country.'
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Trump victory may not harm Pak-US ties: US experts The News International November 11, 2016 Friday
November 11, 2016 Friday
Trump victory may not harm Pak-US ties: US experts

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Victory of Donald Trump in US elections may not immediately harm Pakistan-America relations but the new President
is expected to be tough on issues like terrorism and detained CIA spy Shakil Afridi which could strain already volatile
bilateral ties, experts in US believe.
Although Pakistani Ambassador to United States Jalil Abbas Jilani has already briefed Trump's foreign policy team, no
one still know what exactly the policy of President-elect on Pakistan is.
Talking to The News, one of Pakistan experts in US think tank said Trump's policy towards the country will be more
transactional. "It's unclear how he'll craft his policy toward Pakistan. He said relatively little about it on the campaign
trail. I imagine much of what we'll see won't be much different from how it's been in recent months-a focus on pursuing
the core US interest of stability through limited yet focused counter-terrorism cooperation," Michael Kugelman, a
senior associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center told The News.
Kugelman who is responsible for research, programming, and publications on Pakistan and South at the Centre said
Trump's Pakistan policy will be "unabashedly transactional, all aspects of policy will be meant to serve and advance
US interests."
"This could mean more conditions on aid and an increasing unwillingness to pursue broader avenues of cooperation
outside of security," he added. When asked about the future of relations, Kugelman said US-Pakistan ties were headed
toward a downgrade no matter who won the election.
"So the basic parameters of the relationship won't change. Still, some of Trump's specific positions, such as his demand
for the release of Shakil Afridi, could introduce new tensions into an already volatile relationship," Kugelman added.
Another top US expert on Pakistan, Shuja Shah Nawaz does not see a hard shift in policy toward Pakistan under
Trump. "But a lot depends on what Pakistan does on its own against internal and external violence and terrorism," said
Nawaz who is Founding Director of Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and currently a distinguished fellow.
"We have to wait to see if Trump continues the disengagement from Afghanistan and relations with Nato. Pakistan did
not feature in the campaign. It was only mentioned once in the Democratic Party platform as an adjunct to the Afghan
withdrawal," Nawaz said. He said the onus remains on Pakistan to right its own path on domestic polity and economy
and regional relations.
"The US-India relation will affect its actions no doubt. But it must strike out on its own" said Nawaz who was born in
Pakistan.
Talking to The News in a previous interview, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani had hoped
the ties between the two countries will remain stable in the event of Donald Trump's victory.
"In America, foreign policies are made by team of experts with deep knowledge of region. I have briefed the Republican
team about the issues of mutual interest and we hope our ties will be further improved in future," he said.
Jilani said Pakistan is an important country of South Asia which had played vital part in improving US role in the
region. He noted that four Republican Senators have recently visited Pakistan.
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Pakistan-born head of Muslims for Trump organisation Sajid Tarar hoped that the relations will be improved under the
Republican President. "Pakistan is important country of the region and no US administration can ignore it," he said. He
said the Muslim countries are biggest victims of terrorism and action against terrorism by President-elect will ensure
better future for these countries including Pakistan.
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November 10, 2016 Thursday
Trump victory may not harm Pak-US ties: US experts

BYLINE: Waseem Abbasi
LENGTH: 610 words
Victory of Donald Trump in US elections may not immediately harm Pakistan-America relations but the new President
is expected to be tough on issues like terrorism and detained CIA spy Shakil Afridi which could strain already volatile
bilateral ties, experts in US believe.
Although Pakistani Ambassador to United States Jalil Abbas Jilani has already briefed Trump's foreign policy team, no
one still know what exactly the policy of President-elect on Pakistan is.
Talking to The News, one of Pakistan experts in US think tank said Trump's policy towards the country will be more
transactional. "It's unclear how he'll craft his policy toward Pakistan. He said relatively little about it on the campaign
trail. I imagine much of what we'll see won't be much different from how it's been in recent months-a focus on pursuing
the core US interest of stability through limited yet focused counter-terrorism cooperation," Michael Kugelman, a
senior associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center told The News.
Kugelman who is responsible for research, programming, and publications on Pakistan and South at the Centre said
Trump's Pakistan policy will be "unabashedly transactional, all aspects of policy will be meant to serve and advance
US interests."
"This could mean more conditions on aid and an increasing unwillingness to pursue broader avenues of cooperation
outside of security," he added. When asked about the future of relations, Kugelman said US-Pakistan ties were headed
toward a downgrade no matter who won the election.
"So the basic parameters of the relationship won't change. Still, some of Trump's specific positions, such as his demand
for the release of Shakil Afridi, could introduce new tensions into an already volatile relationship," Kugelman added.
Another top US expert on Pakistan, Shuja Shah Nawaz does not see a hard shift in policy toward Pakistan under
Trump. "But a lot depends on what Pakistan does on its own against internal and external violence and terrorism," said
Nawaz who is Founding Director of Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and currently a distinguished fellow.
"We have to wait to see if Trump continues the disengagement from Afghanistan and relations with Nato. Pakistan did
not feature in the campaign. It was only mentioned once in the Democratic Party platform as an adjunct to the Afghan
withdrawal," Nawaz said. He said the onus remains on Pakistan to right its own path on domestic polity and economy
and regional relations. "The US-India relation will affect its actions no doubt. But it must strike out on its own" said
Nawaz who was born in Pakistan.
Talking to The News in a previous interview, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani had hoped
the ties between the two countries will remain stable in the event of Donald Trump's victory. "In America, foreign
policies are made by team of experts with deep knowledge of region. I have briefed the Republican team about the
issues of mutual interest and we hope our ties will be further improved in future," he said.
Jilani said Pakistan is an important country of South Asia which had played vital part in improving US role in the
region. He noted four Republican Senators have recently visited Pakistan.
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Pakistan-born head of Muslims for Trump organisation Sajid Tarar hoped that the relations will be improved under the
Republican President. "Pakistan is important country of the region and no US administration can ignore it," he said. He
said the Muslim countries are biggest victims of terrorism and action against terrorism by President-elect will ensure
better future for these countries including Pakistan.
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January 27, 2017 Friday
As Trump takes power

BYLINE: Malik Muhammad Ashraf
LENGTH: 1055 words
Amid a wave of protests in the US, Donald Trump has been inaugurated as the 45th US president. For many citizens
and media and political analysts who monitored his election campaign and scrutinised his discourse on internal and
international issues, Trump was unlikely to win and occupy the White House for the next four years. They were all
proved wrong.
The entire world also looked at the events in the US with tremendous interest and a sense of unease. The speech that
Trump delivered after he was sworn in focused on internal issues, and was tinged with nationalism.
The first order that he reportedly passed after taking charge aimed to exercise cuts on Obama's health scheme. This
indicated the beginning of a process of reversing almost all policies of the Obama administration regarding internal
issues. Many believe that he will have to try his best to implement his promise to create jobs, revive industries and
revise welfare-oriented measures. However, he is likely to face stiff opposition from his detractors and endure the wrath
of the US media after he said media personnel were dishonest.
In his speech, he did not mention specific global issues. Trump declared that he would strengthen old alliances, create
new ones and unite the civilised world to eradicate radical 'Islamic terrorism'. During his election campaign, he said
that Nato had lost its utility. But now, he not only talks about strengthening it but also aims to build new alliances to
fight terrorism. This surely represents a climb-down from his earlier position regarding alliances. He needs a new
alliance to fight terrorism and Pakistan will inevitably have to be included as a member of that alliance to ensure its
success.
There is a well-considered view which has enjoyed bipartisan support in the US that, on the global level, it is imperative
to continue the policies pursued by the previous regimes towards Asia and, in particular, India. Any retreat on that
account would leave Asia under China's hegemony. India is considered an effective counterweight to China's
burgeoning influence in the region and beyond. According to this line of reasoning, the US needs to help India expand
its power and economic prowess. This would serve the geopolitical interests of the former in Asia and around the world
as well as maintain the balance of power.
Trump probably cannot afford to undermine US interests by orchestrating a radical departure from this long-term view
of the US's role in world affairs. It is expected that under Trump the US will try to reinvigorate its efforts to expand
civil-nuclear cooperation between the two countries, securing permanent seat in the UNSC for India, helping it clinch
the membership of global non-proliferation regimes and secure an easy access to dual-use technologies.
As a natural corollary to tilt towards India, the US under Trump might increase pressure on Pakistan over alleged acts
of terrorism in India and ask it to come clean. The Trump administration, like previous US administrations, is also
likely to persist with US evasiveness in playing the role of a mediator on the Kashmir dispute in a bid to keep India in
good stead. Enhanced relations with India, like US relations with Israel, will continue to be the cornerstone of US policy
in our region. This, however, does not mean that Pakistan will be pushed to the wall for the sake of India. Relations with
Pakistan would still be important for the US and vice versa.
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Both countries are already engaged in recalibrating their relations which have been quite tricky and difficult,
notwithstanding their alliance against terrorism. The US administration has always looked askance at Pakistan's efforts
to fight terrorism. It has often accused it of playing a double game and persisting with its policy of supporting the
Haqqani Network - which is allegedly involved in acts of terrorism in Afghanistan - and patronising non-state militant
groups responsible for terrorism in India. Afghanistan and India also seem to have forged an alliance to malign
Pakistan.
However, the reality is that the present government and military establishment are sincerely engaged in taking
indiscriminate action against all terrorist outfits and militant organisations based on Pakistan's soil. Through Operation
Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan, the entire infrastructure of terrorists has been destroyed and all those entities - which
are currently based in Afghanistan and crossed over to Pakistan when the US initiated military action against Al-Qaeda
and Taliban regime after 9/11 - have been targeted indiscriminately. Pakistan has also initiated border management
measures to check cross-border movement of terrorists.
The supporters and sympathisers of terrorists as well as their sleeper cells are also being targeted throughout the country
through intelligence-based operations. Pakistan has also been forthcoming in helping India investigate the acts of
terrorism in India. It has invariably shown its willingness to take action against militant outfits which, India believes,
carries out acts of terrorism in India - provided it can show credible evidence of their involvement.
Unfortunately, India has failed to provide the evidence that Pakistan has been demanding and has instead focused on
maligning and isolating the country. The reality is that India has been involved in fomenting terrorism in Pakistan.
Afghanistan also continues to host TTP operatives who have been using Afghan soil for orchestrating terrorism in
Pakistan.
Pakistan's former ambassador to the US, Jalil Abbas Jilani - while referring to a brief conversation he had with Trump
at a dinner that the latter hosted for foreign ambassadors - has claimed that the US president expressed hope to see better
bilateral relations between the US and Pakistan in the future. This signifies a positive change in his attitude towards
Pakistan, especially after a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif a few months ago.
However, for mutually beneficial bilateral relations, Pakistan will need to establish the veracity of its new narrative
against terrorist outfits, remove mistrust between the two countries and discredit the allegations of Afghanistan and
India. It could propose the establishment of a joint monitoring and investigation mechanism to reveal the ground
realities.
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New and unimproved 'war on terror' Dawn (Pakistan) February 22, 2017 Wednesday
Dawn (Pakistan)
February 22, 2017 Wednesday
New and unimproved 'war on terror'

BYLINE: RAFIA ZAKARIA
LENGTH: 964 words
LAST week, as Pakistan was reeling from an onslaught of terror attacks, and analysts and ordinary people alike were
wondering what this new and sudden spate of blasts meant, similar questions were being asked in the United States.
It is widely understood, of course, that little is known about the course that the new Trump administration intends to
take on any matter. Surprise, intentional or not, has been touted as an actual strategy, its consequence being that actual
inaction cannot be distinguished from apathy or indecision. So it is with the 'war on terror', under whose auspices the
US has bombed and droned and raided half a dozen different countries over the past decade. Those were the old days;
the new days, under this very new and very belligerent administration, suggest that what was will likely no longer be.
As a recent article in the American magazine Foreign Affairs (and written by Peter Feaver and Hal Brands) points out,
the options available to the Trump administration with regard to its routinely touted goal of 'defeating ISIS' (the
militant Islamic State group, or IS) are limited, in part by circumstance and in part by its own rhetoric.
The first and least likely option in realigning the war on terrorism would be complete disengagement. Predicated on the
assumption that terrorism is rooted in complex political pathologies in Muslim societies that cannot be solved with
American intervention and meddling (which likely makes the situation worse), this approach would withdraw all troops
from the region and leave the countries involved to sort out issues by themselves. As Feaver and Brands point out, the
drawback of this approach is that it is too hands off. President Trump likes to win, his closest adviser Steve Bannon is
avowedly martial, and the drumbeat of war on IS was too woven into Trump's campaign for such a disengagement to
occur.
It will not be hard for a hawkish military adviser to convince Trump to invest in a huge and costly occupation of the
Middle East.
The exact opposite of disengagement would be complete investment. This is based on the assumption that terror could
and must be rooted out by a massive deployment of US ground troops, air power and everything else. Leaving nothing
or little to the governments of the actual countries where IS and its associated groups have gained a foothold, this
approach would seek to root out illiberal forces (including not simply terrorists but also Islamists), occupy the ground
for a long time and build the kind of liberal democracies that would be an antidote to the insidious encroachment of
extremist ideology.
In Feaver and Brands' view, this is unlikely to be the course of the Trump administration because Trump himself has in
his numerous speeches taken nation building off the table.
The two other options described by Feaver and Brands are halfway options. The one closer to disengagement, and also
to the post-2014 Obama administration, would consider limited engagement, utilising relationships with countries in the
region as a means of sharing intelligence and rooting out, at least in some minimal sense, the leadership, organisation
and infrastructure of specific groups like IS. It would assume that terrorism can be contained but never completely
exterminated.
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Finally, closer to nation-building, another halfway measure would be a partial deployment of ground troops that
attempts to eradicate terrorist groups but is also in at least a limited sense trying to root out the ideology behind
terrorism.
Feaver and Brands think that the Trump administration, like the Obama administration, will select one of the two
halfway options. Their explanation for this is that these measures involve the least amount of political risk and
expenditure. This would indeed have been so, if the Trump administration was likely to base its decision on pragmatic
enumerations and the motivation to score a second term in office in 2020.
However, as the tumultuous first weeks of the administration have shown, this is not the basis on which strategy and
course of action is devised. It is far more likely that Trump will choose one of the extreme options, either total
disengagement or complete and outright occupation.
The reasons for this have little to do with logic or the general direction of US foreign policy for the past several years
and more to do with who has Trump's ear and the image of strength and intractability that Trump so desperately
wishes to project.
The bluster and bravado of Trump's speeches and the constant reiteration of 'radical Islamic terrorism' as the most
significant security threat, suggests it will not be hard for a hawkish military adviser (Michael Flynn would surely have
done the job if he had not been sacked) to convince Trump to invest in a huge and costly occupation of the Middle
East.
Indeed, Trump may have criticised Bush's Iraq war and pointed to a turn away from foreign nation-building, but
Trump changes his mind often. Also notable is that he does not criticise the Iraq war as a critique on occupation or the
use of force, but rather its inability to finish the job. He would have kept the oil, he has said in at least one speech.
The world should not be surprised if the next episode of the interminable 'war on terror' is not a scaling back but a
renewed and ruthless turn to occupation, one that would dominate and, in the minds of those orchestrating it, annihilate
terrorism.
If we know anything about the new American president, it is his penchant for projecting strength and authority, and as
he grows into his power as president, it is unlikely that America will be enough to exercise it. He has promised his
mostly poor and not very well-educated supporters jobs; fighting long and interminable wars would, in a way, do just
that.
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January 27, 2017 Friday
Look forward to working with Trump: Pakistan

BYLINE: Mariana Baabar
LENGTH: 848 words
Hoping that in the coming years, Pakistan and the United States will further strengthen their relationship, the
government says it is important to take note of the recent statement of President Donald Trump in which he links
terrorism with radical Islam, limiting entry of people from several Muslim states into the US.
Pakistan also as in the past welcomed the role of the new US president if he stepped in to mediate on Kashmir, which is
a lingering irritant between Pakistan and India creating tensions in the region, and other contentious issues.
'Mr. Trump's statement on radical Islamic terrorism and his concern for tensions between India and Pakistan warrant
comments. However, assigning terrorism to one religion, we have always maintained that terrorists have no religion,
faith, cast, creed, color or ethnicity. Irrespective of who we are, we all need to work together as one people to rid
ourselves of the scourge of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. I have said earlier that terrorism is a global
phenomenon and requires global cooperation to fight this menace,' Spokesman at the Foreign Office remarked during
the weekly media briefing.
Eyebrows have been raised in important world capitals including in the Muslim world on Trump's latest ban on people
from countries that he says have 'tremendous terror'. 'No, it's not the Muslim ban, but it's countries that have tremendous
terror. And it's countries that people are going to come in and cause us tremendous problems.
Our country has enough problems without allowing people to come in, who in many cases or in some cases, are looking
to do tremendous destruction', Trump told an American television news network. Pakistan, added the spokesman, is
looking forward to working with the new Trump administration.
'We have a long-standing relationship with the United States. We have a comprehensive dialogue mechanism in place,
called Strategic Dialogue, at the ministerial level, which held its meeting last year, and has been regularly holding
meetings since 2013. This dialogue covers diverse areas including economic cooperation, security, defense cooperation,
strategic, education, scientific research, etc', he remarked.
The spokesman also pointed the core issue of Kashmir which he said was the main matter of concerns to the world
community including Washington. 'I have seen a number of statements/articles in the international media reflecting on
the situation in Kashmir, Indian atrocities in IoK and apprehension from regional security perspective. Indian
belligerence and its hostile posture towards Pakistan is endangering peace in the region. This is how the international
community has perceived the relationship between Pakistan and India', he said.
The spokesman refused to be drawn into the recent agreements worth $ 5 billion between UAE and India saying, 'We
have traditionally very cordial and cooperative relations with UAE and other Muslim countries. It may not be
appropriate to view relationships between sovereign countries at the expense of their relations with other countries.'
Speaking on Mission Kashmir, the spokesman pointed out to the extensive 3-hour long debate on Kashmir in the House
of Commons, UK.
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'The House resolved that the 'it notes the escalation in violence and breaches of international human rights on the Indian
side of the Line of Control in Kashmir; calls on the Government to raise the matter at the United Nations; and further
calls on the Government to encourage Pakistan and India to commence peace negotiations to establish a long-term
solution on the future governance of Kashmir based on the right of the Kashmiri people to determine their own future in
accordance with the provisions of UN Security Council resolutions.'
On recent remarks from Kabul, Pakistan says it would be better if the Afghan government could focus their attention on
enhancing cooperation with Pakistan in counter-terrorism.
As infighting continues between at the different level of Afghan leadership simply putting blame on Pakistan for all that
goes wrong inside their country is not being bought by anyone anymore.
'Our operations against terrorism including Zarb-e-Azb have led to elimination of terrorists groups and stabilization of
Pak-Afghan border area. We hope that Afghan forces take care of terrorist groups having refuge in various provinces of
Afghanistan', advised the spokesman adding 'mere rhetoric of blaming others to hide their failures in Afghanistan will
not solve the problem'.
He reminded Kabul of recent independent assessments on the situation in Afghanistan suggest that the factors
responsible for the deteriorating security situation are internal to Afghanistan.
'I have repeatedly given reference to many reports in this regard. You may like to refer to UN's Study of 2014, General
Nicholson's assessment of Afghanistan, published on 05 December 2016 and US Special Inspector General for
Afghanistan Reconstruction, SIGAR's reports that have amply identified that risks and obstacles in the way to peace and
reconciliation in Afghanistan remain internal', he said.
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Trump's U-turn? Dawn (Pakistan) November 15, 2016 Tuesday
Dawn (Pakistan)
November 15, 2016 Tuesday
Trump's U-turn?
BYLINE: Asad Ali Jamali - Hyderabad
LENGTH: 146 words
HAS Donald Trump just taken a U-turn on his promise? His pledge to deny entry to the country for all Muslims
temporarily disappeared from his campaign website after winning the election.
The removal prompted new questions about one of Trump's most controversial promises but, it was restored Thursday
afternoon after Trump's staff characterised it as a technical glitch.
Trump's promise helped him win the GOP primary, while drawing criticism from people who said it ran counter to
American values of religious tolerance. In recent months, Trump has suggested that he would revise it and said his
policy will target people from countries affected by terrorism, and will not use religion as a criterion. But on Thursday
as he was strolling the Capitol with congressional leaders, he walked away from reporters who asked him whether the
plan to ban Muslims remained on his agenda.
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