... (from eastern Afghanistan to western Pakistan) have never given up on being united again. Everyone familiar with AfPak knows the region is still paying the price for the fateful divide-and-rule ... a progressive encirclement of Russia, China and Iran. And the name of the game is not really AfPak, even with all the breaking up and balkanization it may entail. It’s all about the New Great Game for ...

... - Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower PARIS - Something's happening in AfPak, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr Beltway think-tanker? As Washington ... Iran has all the energy that both China and India need. The balkanization of AfPak would neutralize China's drive for land ...

UNDER THE AFPAK VOLCANO, Part 2 Breaking up is (not) hard to do The Pentagon well knows that AfPak is the key land bridge between Iran to the west and China and India to the east; and that Iran has all the energy that both China and India need. The balkanization of AfPak would neutralize China's drive for land access from Xinjiang across Pakistan to the Arabian Sea, ...

... ) hard to do By Pepe Escobar Asia Times PART 1: Welcome to Pashtunistan "The Pentagon well knows that AfPak is the key land bridge between Iran to the west and China and India to the east; and that Iran has all the energy that both China and India need. The balkanization of AfPak would neutralize China's drive for land access from Xinjiang across Pakistan to the Arabian ...

... logic to justify perennial United States/North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops stationed in AfPak, an increasing number of Pashtuns living on both sides of the border have seized the ... no mistake, knows exactly how to play its New Great Game in Eurasia. Balkanization of AfPak - the break-up of both Afghanistan and Pakistan - will engineer, among other states, an independent Pashtunistan and an ...

... , after the success of the Long March Drinking Game…*bhangra music*…the AfPak Drinking Game! 1. In the spirit of everyone’s favourite Prince since The Artist Formally Known as ... you awake while thinktankers duel on television. 3. Smoke a joint every time the word “AfPak” is mentioned. Its one of the few things we have in common that we’re not arguing over. Just ...

As the Obama administration ponders the way forward in Afghanistan, the AfPak Channel reached out to experts who have lived in Afghanistan or researched and reported from the region for extended periods of time to ask, in about what a senior National Security Council staffer might have time to say to him in one of the meetings that is now going on in the White House, what they would tell Obama as ...

... eloquently and simply. Conflicts threaten people. Since then, I have been an avid follower of the Human Security Report Project. Now, the project is using two blogs to offer a human security perspective on AfPak. Both the Afghanistan and Pakistan Conflict Monitors are aggregators of human security information on the conflicts and are worthwhile readings for anyone in the field. Check them out.

  The AfPak War Combating Extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan | Full Coverage McChrystal and U.S. ambassador to testify on Afghanistan war Obama, advisers confer again; troop decision may come next week Tuesday, November 24, 2009 The top U.S. general and the U.S ambassador in Afghanistan have been told to prepare to testify before Congress as early as next week, according to White ...

(Click for larger size) Oh, I'm going to miss print when it's finally gone. All kinds of activists and photo people have been linking to the on-line New Yorker portraits by Platon taken at September's U.N. General Assembly opening session, which is where I saw them too. This evening, though, I had a chance to liberate the real-live print edition from my wife and ...