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    <title><![CDATA[Pakistan |Commentary | CIP RSS Feeds]]></title>
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    <description>Articles, Letters, Op-eds, Policy Briefs, Testimony</description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shut Out of US, Lawyer for Pakistani Drone Victims Speaks Out]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lawyer-for-pakistani-drone-victims-speaks-out</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lawyer-for-pakistani-drone-victims-speaks-out#When:14:43:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tom Barry interviews Pakistani lawyer, Shahzad Akbar, about the upcoming drone summit in Washington, D.C.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, TransBorder Project, Americas, Middle East, Pakistan, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-11T14:43:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Simmering Discord in the Tribal Badlands]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/simmering-discord-in-the-tribal-badlands</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/simmering-discord-in-the-tribal-badlands#When:15:32:25Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The alarming growth of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the Pashtun tribal region of northwest Pakistan and southern Afghanistan is usually attributed to the popularity of their messianic brand of Islam and to covert help from Pakistani intelligence agencies]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-08-01T15:32:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[US-Pakistani Relations: The Tail Still Wags the Dog]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_pakistani_relations_the_tail_still_wags_the_dog</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_pakistani_relations_the_tail_still_wags_the_dog#When:15:25:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[During the worst days of the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union learned that their third-world clients ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-14T15:25:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Benazir Bhutto Knew About Bin Laden]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what_benazir_bhutto_knew_about_bin_laden</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what_benazir_bhutto_knew_about_bin_laden#When:16:33:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto was a friend of mine. I met her in the 1980s, when I was serving on the House Foreign Affairs ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-13T16:33:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Encroachment Infuriates, Radicalizes Pakistanis]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_encroachment_infuriates_radicalizes_pakistanis</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_encroachment_infuriates_radicalizes_pakistanis#When:17:04:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The bin Laden raid is just the latest unilateral encroachment on Pakistani territory. Reports of official pushback are ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-04T17:04:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistani Terrorists Eye U.S.]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistani_terrorists_eye_us</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistani_terrorists_eye_us#When:11:20:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The current crisis between Pakistan and the United States centers on one key little-discussed issue: Will Islamabad disarm its most formidable Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) which staged the 2008 attack on Mumbai and now openly threatens to carry its jihad to America?]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-26T11:20:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Averting an Indo-Pak Disaster]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/averting_an_indo_pak_disaster</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/averting_an_indo_pak_disaster#When:15:16:59Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[January 1989. That was the brief interlude of hope when Benazir Bhutto and Rajiv Gandhi, the then-Prime ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-24T15:16:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-chinese-cozy-up-to-pakistanis</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-chinese-cozy-up-to-pakistanis#When:10:10:50Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[China’s expanding reach is a natural and acceptable accompaniment of its growing power—but only up to a point.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-16T10:10:50+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Zardari&#8217;s Courage]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/zardaris-courage</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/zardaris-courage#When:12:50:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[To promote a détente, the U.S.should support Pakistan's embattled president, Asif Ali Zardari, in his escalating struggle with the generals in Islamabad over the terms of peace with New Delhi.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-05T12:50:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[America Builds Pashtunistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/america-builds-pashtunistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/america-builds-pashtunistan#When:08:40:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pressures to stop drone attacks on suspected terrorist hideouts in the tribal border regions of Pakistan focus properly ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-28T08:40:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[US Shouldn&#8217;t Interfere with man&#8217;s trial in Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-shouldnt-interfere-with-mans-trial-in-pakistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-shouldnt-interfere-with-mans-trial-in-pakistan#When:10:36:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A pistol-packin' private American security contractor on a motorcycle kills two Pakistani civilians allegedly attempting ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-08T10:36:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Free Baluchistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/free-baluchistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/free-baluchistan#When:09:07:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As the Islamist nightmare envelops Pakistan, the Obama administration ponders what the United States should do. But the bitter reality is that the United States is already doing too much in Pakistan. It is the American shadow everywhere, the Pakistani feeling of being smothered by the U.S. embrace, that gives the Islamists their principal rallying cry.
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      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-01T09:07:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mumbai&#8217;s American dead continue to go unavenged]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mumbais-american-dead-continue-to-go-unavenged</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mumbais-american-dead-continue-to-go-unavenged#When:09:58:49Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the days of the Barbary pirates, the infant U.S. Navy swiftly avenged attacks on American lives and property. But after six Americans were among the more than 160 killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, America's leaders wrung their hands and did nothing.
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      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-01-21T09:58:49+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Selig S Harrison: US Role and Indo-Pak Ties]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-s-harrison-us-role-and-indo-pak-ties</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-s-harrison-us-role-and-indo-pak-ties#When:14:46:37Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[“Obama Mission: Billions to Pakistan, Billions From India” — This screaming headline in the Times of India ahead of President Obama’s visit to New Delhi explains why]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-11T14:46:37+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Support, Don’t Promote, Democracy Abroad]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-dont-promote-democracy-abroad</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-dont-promote-democracy-abroad#When:14:49:09Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The debate rages over what and how much world leaders and other senior officials should and should not say in public about the actions and policies of countries other]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-10T14:49:09+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan Divides U.S. and India]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistan-divides-us-india</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistan-divides-us-india#When:09:09:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA["Obama Mission: Billions to Pakistan, Billions From India" — This screaming headline in the Times of India ahead of President Obama's visit to New Delhi explains why a quiet crisis is developing in what seems, on the surface, to be an increasingly promising relationship between the world's two largest democracies.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-08T09:09:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[China&#8217;s Discrete Hold on Pakistan&#8217;s Northern Borderlands]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chinas-discreet-hold-on-pakistans-northern-borderlands</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chinas-discreet-hold-on-pakistans-northern-borderlands#When:12:29:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-08-26T12:29:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Aid Fuels Dangerous Deal in Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-aid-fuels-dangerous-deal-in-pakistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-aid-fuels-dangerous-deal-in-pakistan#When:10:46:06Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[With one hand, Pakistan scoops up its multiplying millions in US aid. With the other, it buys nuclear reactors from China that will give it the capability to add 24 nuclear weapons per year to its estimated existing arsenal of 70 to 90]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-06-29T10:46:06+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Ethnic Fault Line]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line#When:11:26:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[To American eyes the struggle raging in Pakistan with the Taliban is about religious fanaticism. But in Pakistan it is about an explosive fusion of Islamist zeal and ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-05-11T11:26:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Remarks by Selig Harrison, Director, Asia Program, Center for International Policy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-selig-harrison-director-asia-program-center-for-international</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-selig-harrison-director-asia-program-center-for-international#When:14:41:03Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Scripture for me on the subject of Pakistan is an important book called the Shadow of the Great Game: the Untold Story of India’s Partition, by Narendra Singh Sarila, a retired Indian diplomat who was the ADC to Mountbatten.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-11-21T14:41:03+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[From Kabul to Kashmir]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/from-kabul-to-kashmir</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/from-kabul-to-kashmir#When:15:20:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[By all rights, the United States and India should be bound together by the shared tragedies of 9/11 and last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-11-13T15:20:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Other Islamist Threat in Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-other-islamist-threat-in-pakistan1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-other-islamist-threat-in-pakistan1#When:14:39:34Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The danger of an Islamist takeover of Pakistan is real. But it does not come from the Taliban guerrillas now battling the Pakistan Army in the Swat borderlands.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-06-17T14:39:34+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Ethnic Fault Line]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line1#When:17:10:37Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[To American eyes the struggle raging in Pakistan with the Taliban is about religious fanaticism. But in Pakistan it is about an explosive fusion of Islamist zeal and simmering ethnic tensions that have been exacerbated by U.S. pressures for military action against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-05-11T17:10:37+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Face Down Pakistani Army]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/face-down-pakistani-army</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/face-down-pakistani-army#When:11:09:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Unless the Obama administration can get Pakistan's army to stop supporting the Taliban with weapons and logistical support, the insurgency will continue to threaten the U.S.-supported Kabul government — no matter how many more troops the U.S. sends to Afghanistan.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-04-01T11:09:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kashmir Issue Leading Obama into First &#8216;Tar Pit&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/kashmir-issue-leading-obama-into-first-tar-pit</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/kashmir-issue-leading-obama-into-first-tar-pit#When:13:42:22Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama has made his first big foreign-policy mistake - pledging U.S. intervention in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.  While the Kashmir issue "is obviously a tar pit diplomatically," he announced, one of the "critical tasks" for his administration]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-01-06T13:42:22+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Support to Pakistan Distorts Asia&#8217;s Balance of Power]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-to-pakistan-distorts-asias-balance-of-power</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-to-pakistan-distorts-asias-balance-of-power#When:15:00:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan sinks deeper into political gridlock and Al Qaeda continues to operate unhindered in its territory, but the Pentagon gravy train bringing American weaponry for its armed forces races full speed ahead on autopilot]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-09-27T15:00:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pressuring Pakistan to Curb the Taliban]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pressuring-pakistan-to-curb-the-taliban</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pressuring-pakistan-to-curb-the-taliban#When:16:05:45Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite growing evidence of Pakistani support for the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, the Bush ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-02-19T16:05:45+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[What A.Q. Khan Knows]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what-aq-khan-knows</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what-aq-khan-knows#When:15:52:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Either Kim Jong Il or Pervez Musharraf is lying about whether Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove, Abdul]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-01-31T15:52:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beware Pashtunistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/beware-pashtunistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/beware-pashtunistan#When:14:09:25Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto's narrow escape from assassination recently was a grim reminder she'll be lucky to get through the coming election alive]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-11-12T14:09:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[London Speech on Balochistan (audio)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/london-speech-on-balochistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/london-speech-on-balochistan#When:14:52:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Selig Harrison's speech on Balochistan at FPC Seminar in London ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-01-01T14:52:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Unravelling of Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-unravelling-of-pakistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-unravelling-of-pakistan#When:13:08:39Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan gets American attention primarily because it is a hotbed of Al Qaeda activity and a staging area for the Taliban campaign to recapture Afghanistan. But the most important and least-noticed news about multi-ethnic Pakistan is that it is slowly falling apart as tensions grow between its Punjabi-dominated military regime and its restive ethnic minority regions of Baluchistan and Sindh.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-11-01T13:08:39+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Baluch Insurgency]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-baluch-insurgency</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-baluch-insurgency#When:16:23:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Serious troubles have erupted in the Pakistan province of Baluchistan since the assassination of an opposition leader in August]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-01T16:23:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Pakistan Friend or Foe?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/is-pakistan-friend-or-foe</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/is-pakistan-friend-or-foe#When:12:57:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is supposedly a key U.S. ally in the "war on terror." But is he, in fact, more of a liability than an asset in combating Al Qaeda and the increasingly menacing Taliban forces in Afghanistan?]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-09-05T12:57:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A New Hub for Terrorism?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-new-hub-for-terrorism</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-new-hub-for-terrorism#When:13:12:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the United States dithers, a growing Islamic fundamentalist movement linked to al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence agencies is steadily converting the strategically]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-08-02T13:12:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Regulate Nuclear Weapons The U.S. Deal With India Could Be a Good Starting Point]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-regulate-nukes-deal-with-india-good-starting-point</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-regulate-nukes-deal-with-india-good-starting-point#When:12:12:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Why should India, with a spotless nonproliferation record, be denied access to U.S. civilian nuclear technology for electricity, while China -- which helped Pakistan]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-04-23T12:12:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Costly &#8216;Other War&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-costly-other-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-costly-other-war#When:16:03:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The usual explanation for Pakistan's failure to go all-out against al Qaeda and Taliban forces along the Afghan frontier is that Gen. Pervez Musharraf's armed forces and intelligence services are riddled with Islamic extremists.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-15T16:03:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[US Should Scrap Plane Deal With Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-should-scrap-plane-deal-with-pakistan1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-should-scrap-plane-deal-with-pakistan1#When:13:17:04Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[PAKISTAN'S decision to postpone the US-subsidized purchase of 77 nuclear-capable F-16 fighter planes from the ailing Lockheed-Martin Corporation provides an opportunity for the Bush administration and Congress to call off a disastrous deal that the United States should never have proposed in the first place.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-11-27T13:17:04+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[More Arms Are Not What India and Pakistan Need]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-arms-are-not-what-india-and-pakistan-need</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-arms-are-not-what-india-and-pakistan-need#When:14:19:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Washington wants to encourage the search for a South Asian peace that was launched by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India and President]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-02-14T14:19:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Nuclear Loopholes]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-nuclear-loopholes</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-nuclear-loopholes#When:14:24:40Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite multiplying evidence that Iran, North Korea, and Libya have obtained their key nuclear technology from Pakistan, the United States continues to]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-02-09T14:24:40+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Cry For &#8216;Justice&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-cry-for-justice</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-cry-for-justice#When:13:35:16Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's recent New York statements --that "Islam as a religion is being targeted and pilloried," that the Islamic world has an obligation to reform the religious schools "that preach hatred" and that it must "shun militancy and extremism" but for that to be feasible "the West must join us by helping to resolve all political disputes involving Muslims with justice" -- deserve to be pondered and acted upon.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-10-10T13:35:16+00:00</dc:date>
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