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...directly assisting militant groups fighting against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has barely raised an eyebrow. Veteran Pakistan watchers here have known - or suspected - as much for several years. "It confirms what a lot of us have been saying for a long time," says Lisa Curtis, South Asia expert at the Heritage Foundation. In the area of cooperation with the U.S. on counterterrorism, Curtis says, "the Pakistanis have the initiative - they play us." Adds Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institution: "The problem from the beginning has been that elements [of the ISI] have gone off and done things they...
Shuja Nawaz, a South Asia expert at the Atlantic Council, points out that Pakistan has had a relationship with Hekmatyar and Haqqani for decades, stretching back to the 1970s, before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Nawaz argues that if ISI operatives are indeed helping these warlords and the Afghan Taliban, "it has to be happening with full knowledge of the [Pakistani] authorities - the leadership of the ISI, the military, the government...
...what one is used to in the West. In the U.S. and Europe, we have prettified our rivers, turning city waterfronts into places where genteel folk ride their bikes or snack in the open air. But in Asia - not just in Shanghai, but along the Chao Phraya in Bangkok, or in Hong Kong's harbor - waterways are not pretty at all. They are busy places of work and commerce, the arteries of trade, that age-old process of exchange that, more than anything else, has lifted millions of Asians out of poverty in two generations. (See pictures of China...
...Though he spoke of the cooperation of the world's nations in addressing the credit crisis, Obama also applied some pointed pressure on major economic powers, including nations in Europe and Asia, that have yet to commit to sizable stimulus programs. "We don't want a situation in which some countries are making extraordinary efforts and other countries aren't, with the hope that somehow the countries that are making those steps lift everybody up," he said...
...there is not much in the way of anecdotal data to support anything other than the fact that figures will keep getting worse. The most important bellwether for economic activity may be the rate of contraction in manufacturing. In the U.S., those numbers are bad. In parts of Asia and Europe the figures are much worse. If the American consumer was showing any signs of life there should be an uptick in exports from large manufacturing countries like China. That is not happening. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...