Robert Birsel

Position: Journalist

Articles

Pakistan seeks talks with "disgruntled" Baluchistan November 24, 02:09pm EST 

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani invited ethnic Baluch leaders for talks on Tuesday in an effort to ease a separatist insurgency in their gas and mineral-rich province bordering Afghanistan and Iran.  Full Article 

Blog Posts

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Reforming Pakistan's security agencies

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has put out a paper on the need to reform Pakistan's intelligence agencies just as army chief General Ashfaq Kayani is winning much praise for playing what ...  Full Article | Comments [30] 

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One year on, same questions swirl around Bhutto's murder

The anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination has reminded everyone just how much we still don't know about her killing in a suicide gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi on Dec. 27, 2007.   The same ...  Full Article | Comments [8] 

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U.S. groups urges civilian control for Pakistan's ISI

Members of the Pakistan Policy Working Group, a bipartisan U.S. group of a about a dozen experts on U.S.-Pakistan relations, have been in Islamabad, presenting their recommendations on the direction they ...  Full Article | Comments [32]