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What awaits Holbrooke in Pakistan, Afghanistan

Islamabad : Pakistan | 10 months ago  
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Richard Holbrooke

Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, Council on Foreign Relations

interviews Bruce O. Riedel, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

Text of the interview is the NYT news story attached.

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  • Submitted By: starsandstripes | 10 months ago
    By BRUCE O. RIEDEL AND BERNARD GWERTZMAN Published: January 29, 2009The New York Times
  • News Source: Los Angeles Times | 9 months ago
    The new envoy, a veteran diplomat nicknamed 'the Bulldozer,' called the Afghan government a failure and put pressure on Pakistan to battle extremists. February 2, 2009 Officials in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India have reacted uneasily to the...
  • News Source: NewKerala | 9 months ago
    Riedel, an expert on South Asia who has worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Pentagon and National Security Council, says new special envoy Richard Holbrooke needs to reverse the negative momentum in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. The...
  • News Source: Hindustan times | 10 months ago
    As we've said before, that Kashmir was not going to be a part of Ambassador Holbrooke's portfolio. We've made that very clear," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said on Friday asserting that such a "story in The Washington Post is not true." "...
  • News Source: NewKerala | 10 months ago
    Holbrooke will travel to South Asia after attending a security conference in Munich, Germany, acting State Department department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters Thursday. Although his schedule was not set, he was expected to travel to...
  • News Source: Jang.com.pk | 10 months ago
    President Barack Obama should deepen US engagement in Afghanistan but show more restraint in Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday. He said US drone attacks on Pakistani territory were “counterproductive” and called for a new...
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  • Blog Source: spoonfeedin.blogspot.com
    It is an open secret that Mr. Holbrooke’s original brief included India, mainly because Mr. Obama let it be known that he believes the Kashmir issue forms an integral part of the military-strategic puzzle the U.S. is dealing with in ...
  • Blog Source: perwi.blogspot.com
    White House silent on Pak missile attack · First Missile Hit under Obama in Pakistan · Obama: Pakistan, Afghanistan front of war on terro... Holbrooke ? - Obama's Afghan-Pakistan envoy · Will Obama Listen? Stop drone attacks! ...
  • Blog Source: www.chron.com
    Iran has made no response to Obama’s public offer of a diplomatic handshake. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Monday that he is open to a dialogue with the Obama administration, but that he would not accept any preconditions to ...
  • Blog Source: perwi.blogspot.com
    Barack Obama (L) along with former US commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus (C), and Senator Chuck Hagel over Baghdad. US commanders say they had consulted President Barack Obama before launching recent drone attacks on Pakistan's ...
  • Blog Source: perwi.blogspot.com
    Press TV: Professor Chomsky, we better start with Pakistan. The White House not commenting on the killings of people [in cross-border drone attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan]. Richard Holbrooke, someone whom you've written about in ...
  • Blog Source: knesset2009.wordpress.com
    The White House is hoping that its energetic early days — and the rapid dispatch of Middle East envoy George J. Mitchell and Afghanistan-Pakistan representative Richard C. Holbrooke on their own first regional trips — will send the desired
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