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Pakistan Today
March 17, 2018
If the current policy on the part of Islamabad continued, this could very well transpire into a triumph for an 'Islamic Pashtunistan', a term coined by Pakistan's former ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani. Recently, a Pakistani defence analyst, General Mahmud Ali Durrani, said, “I hope theÃâà...
Business Standard
January 14, 2018
“What was coming was in the cards,” says Mahmud Ali Durrani, a retired Pakistan army major general and former ambassador to the US. “This is one of the lowest points in the relationship between the two countries.” Trump risks alienating a key US. ally in the war on terror, one that has nuclear weaponsÃâà...
Daily Times
January 8, 2018
Talking about the possible options that Pakistan might like to pursue, Gen (r) Mahmud Ali Durrani, who served as Pakistan's ambassador to the US from 2006 to 2008 and as Pakistan's National Security Adviser from 2008-2009, said that Pakistan needed to quietly break away from all US aid, but beforeÃâà...
Firstpost
March 6, 2017
The Indian media has predictably lapped up the remarks made by former Pakistani National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani that the 2008 Mumbai attacks were carried out by a Pakistan-based terrorist group. He also said that the amir of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Saeed has no utility and Pakistan shouldÃâà...
India West
March 6, 2017
NEW DELHI —Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan's former top security officer, said March 6 that the Nov. 26, 2008 Mumbai strike was a "classic example" of cross-border terrorism carried out by a Pakistan-based group and that he hoped the group's chief, Hafiz Saeed, will be punished. However, Durrani, aÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 2, 2017
Pakistan does not grasp this hidden correlation between Islamism and Afghan nationalism. Supporting Islamized groups like the Taliban hasn't actually served to lower Pakistani concerns. Former Pakistani ambassador to Washington Gen. Mahmud Ali Durrani once summed this fear up perfectly: “I hopeÃâà...
Jakarta Post
January 10, 2017
Mahmud Ali Durrani implied in the talk he gave on Jan. 6, at an event hosted by the Foreign Policy Community Indonesia (FPCI). Pretty imaginative, right? Old generals don't fade, they give talks. And having served in the military for 37 years, as Pakistan's national security adviser, as ambassador to the US,Ãâà...
The Indian Express
March 22, 2015
In this Idea Exchange moderated by Deputy Editor Muzamil Jaleel, former Pakistan NSA Mahmud Ali Durrani talks of the 26/11 probe, terrorism inside .... I was ambassador in both Washington and Jamaica, when Bob Woolmer, the coach of our cricket team, suddenly died during the World Cup 2007 inÃâà...
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