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Rahimullah Yusufzai is a Peshawar-based senior journalist who covers events in the NWFP, FATA, Balochistan and Afghanistan. His work appears in the Pakistani and international media. He has also contributed chapters to books on the region.

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US Looking to Negotiate With the Taliban

Does Pakistan figure in the face-saving deal that the US is trying to thrash out with the Taliban in Doha?

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[20 Oct 2011 | Comments Off | Rahimullah Yusufzai]
Double Games People Play

With Pakistan, the US and Afghanistan pointing accusatory fingers at each other as the US withdrawal from Afghanistan nears, how will ‘The Great Game’ in the Af-Pak region end?

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Influencing Afghanistan: Neighbours and Faraway States Jostle for Position

Pakistan must tread carefully in Afghanistan, as it negotiates Iranian, Saudi and Indian interests in its war-torn neighbourhood.

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The Afghan Endgame: Is Durable Peace a Mirage?

Obama’s plans of a phased drawdown of US troops in Afghanistan are unlikely to usher in a period of peace and stability in the country or the region. In fact, negotiations between US and Afghan officials about permanent US military bases seem to indicate otherwise.

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The Day After

With Osama gone, is Pakistan now Public Enemy Number One?

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Strained Bedfellows

Frosty CIA-ISI relations are unlikely to thaw anytime soon, especially after the unilateral raid on bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad and repeated US demands on Pakistan to crack down on the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan.

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Journalist Recalls Famous Interview with Osama

Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai talks about his three-hour interview with Osama bin Laden in 1998.

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[16 Apr 2011 | Comments Off | Rahimullah Yusufzai]
Hi-Tech and High Risk

As collateral damage keeps mounting in America’s often misdirected drone attacks in Waziristan, the Pakistan military may be forced to take action of its own.

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Spy or Intermediary?

Colonel Imam’s death at the hands of the TTP would have one believe he was a spy for the ISI, but the military’s half-hearted efforts to secure his release indicate otherwise.

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[27 Feb 2011 | Comments Off | Rahimullah Yusufzai]
Blinded by Faith

The maulana of a waqf-managed mosque in Peshawar exhorts people to kill the “blasphemers” and gets away with it.