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khalid Aziz

Khalid Aziz is a former civil service officer, having more than 30 years experience with an outstanding service record in various jobs under the federal and provincial governments. He headed the NWFP Planning, Environment & Development Department for six years and played a major role in transforming NWFP. He also headed the province as its Chief Secretary. After government service he started his own development consultancy firm in 2003. He writes extensively on the region.

The calculus of war (Published in the Dawn on 10th May 2010)

// CALCULUS is a mathematical measurement technique that calculates minute changes occurring in a trend. Military planners spend an enormous time working out the details of an operation. However, they get so involved in their own construction of events that they normally fail to answer three fundamental questions about any operation.       Firstly, what areRead More »The calculus of war (Published in the Dawn on 10th May 2010)

The end game in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s opportunity

// When President Obama took office he ordered an interagency policy review of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The recommendations emerging from this policy review were issued in a White Paper in March 2009. The US is improvising its policy in Afghanistan based on this review and Obama's subsequent policy interventions including the commitment to increase theRead More »The end game in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s opportunity

US framework for peace

// US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton delivered the Holbrooke Memorial Address at the Asia Society in New York on Feb 18. Here she outlined a comprehensive plan to end the Afghan war. The plan includes the initiation of a diplomatic surge in addition to military operations. According to the plan the goal of theRead More »US framework for peace

Address at the launching of the tele drama on 13th March 2010 at the Marriot, Islamabad

// Chief Guest, friends, ladies and gentlemen  It gives me great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of FATA secretariat and FATA CBP this evening. Before the program starts may I request everyone to please stand and observe 1 minute of silence as a mark of solidarity for all those who have become target of terrorism inRead More »Address at the launching of the tele drama on 13th March 2010 at the Marriot, Islamabad

Hubris or lack of wisdom?

// SOMETIMES one is stunned by Washington’s lack of vision in handling critical policy matters concerning its ally Pakistan. Just when patience was needed for the Pakistanis’ anger to subside over the release of Raymond Davis, we heard of multiple drone strikes that killed more than 40 persons attending a jirga in Datta Khel, NorthRead More »Hubris or lack of wisdom?

Back to square one

// PAKISTAN’S success against militants can be judged from the result of its operations in Swat that began on May 12, 2009 when the military was ordered to restore the writ of the state. Subsequently, the region was stabilised under the military’s management, permitting the return of more than 500,000 displaced residents. After the initialRead More »Back to square one

Stabilisation of Afghanistan

// AT the Nato conference in Lisbon last November, the alliance resolved to start withdrawal from Afghanistan beginning 2014. One proposal gaining attention is mooted by a former US ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, the neoconservative mainstay of the US think tank establishment and a lobbyist for India. His security framework is called `Plan B:Read More »Stabilisation of Afghanistan

UK’s diversity and identity

// BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron made an astonishing and alarming statement at a recent security conference in Munich that is set to change both Britain`s policy of multiculturalism and the `prevent` approach that lays down the method of dealing with Islamist formations in Britain. Cameron`s remarks, in all probability, will light the fire ofRead More »UK’s diversity and identity
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