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India, US pitch for Afghan-led reconciliation process
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Reviewing the situation in Afghanistan, India and the US Friday agreed to pitch for "an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned" reconciliation process and discussed the ongoing political turmoil in Pakistan. US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak) Marc Grossman held talks with Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai that focused on the prospects of reconciliation in Afghanistan

US will wait for Pakistan to reassess ties: AfPak envoy
Seeking to downplay Pakistan's refusal to allow him to visit the country, US Special Representative for the Afghanistan-Pakistan region Marc Grossman Friday said he will wait till Islamabad re-evaluates its relationship with Washington.

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Ajai Shukla: Managing Pakistan

It should be no surprise that the American discourse on post-2014 AfPak is shifting as it becomes evident that the troop thin-out will leave behind an Afghanistan in turmoil if not outright civil

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The Noise before Defeat

President Obama's AfPak strategy overwhelmingly concentrates on unrealistic short-term targets and goals, based on irrational settlements with the most dangerous elements in the region - the Pakistan Army, the 'moderate Taliban', and a powerless and unreliable political leadership in Pakistan. At the same time, the setting of hard deadlines for US withdrawal... encourages an extremist calculus within a protracted war framework that simply seeks to exhaust the political will of the Western leadership to remain engaged in the war.--AfPak Cul de Sac, June 2009

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Jyoti Malhotra: A historic moment in the AfPak region

The photograph of the Kabul Intercontinental hotel in flames earlier this week brought back memories of Mumbai's Taj Hotel on fire on TV, nearly three years ago. But this column does not intend to

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Pakistan agrees to do 'whatever Kabul wants' to end Afghan conflict

Islamabad: Pakistan has pledged to help Afghanistan end a near-decade-long insurgency, expressing its commitment to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process for sustainable peace in the

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