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Ashish Kumar Sen

Ashish Kumar Sen

asen@washingtontimes.com

Ashish Kumar Sen is a reporter covering foreign policy and international developments for The Washington Times.
Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Sen worked for publications in Asia and the Middle East. His work has appeared in a number of publications and online news sites including the British Broadcasting Corp., Asia Times Online and Outlook magazine.

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Pakistani media gather Monday in Islamabad, where a hearing of a judicial commission is in session. The Supreme Court set up the panel to investigate a secret-memo scandal in response to a petition filed by a group of opposition politicians. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani must appear Thursday to explain his refusal to cooperate in the probe. (Associated Press)

Pakistani court raps prime minister

Pakistan's government faced a constitutional threat Monday from the Supreme Court, which began contempt proceedings against the prime minister for failing to reopen a corruption investigation against the president.

January 16, 2012
**FILE** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks Jan. 12, 2012, during a news conference the State Department in Washington with Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci. (Associated Press)

U.S., Myanmar to exchange diplomats

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday announced that the U.S. and Myanmar will start the process of exchanging ambassadors, a distinct sign of a thaw in once frosty relations between the two countries.

January 13, 2012
** FILE ** Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani gives an interview at his home on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Rift stirs fears of military coup in Pakistan

Fears of a coup in Pakistan increased Wednesday when the military warned of "potentially grievous consequences" after the prime minister criticized the army chief and the head of the country's spy agency.

January 11, 2012
A Syrian immigrant waves Bulgarian and the revolutionary Syrian flag, during a rally against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in front of the Syrian embassy in Sofia, on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. Syrian opposition groups say the death toll has risen beyond 6,000 and government forces continue to kill protesters despite the presence of Arab League monitors. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Assad foes lose unity over foreign intervention

Efforts by the U.S. and the Arab League to work with a unified Syrian opposition have been stymied, mostly because of two opposition groups' disagreement on foreign military action to oust President Bashar Assad.

January 8, 2012
** FILE ** Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during the last day of the Loya Jirga, or grand council, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Afghan Taliban to open Qatar office for peace talks

A decision by the Afghan Taliban to set up a liaison office in Qatar is the first concrete step in a decade by the militants toward a peace deal, but it shuts out a key negotiating partner — Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government.

January 3, 2012
**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)

U.N. and Iraq reach deal on Iranian dissidents

The United Nations and the Iraqi government have reached a deal to transfer more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents living in a camp north of Baghdad, potentially averting what international observers have warned would be a massacre.

December 26, 2011
** FILE ** Pentagon press secretary George Little (center) takes part in an audio news conference with Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Clark of the Air Force Special Operations Command (pictured on a television top right) at the Pentagon on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

U.S. cites ‘misunderstanding’ in deadly Pakistan operation

The U.S. military on Thursday acknowledged serious mistakes in a cross-border operation last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and strained ties with the South Asian nation, but said U.S. forces had acted in self-defense.

December 22, 2011
Soldiers move down a street in Daraa, Syria, in this video scene shown on the Internet. Amateur video emerged Monday from Syria that purported to show ongoing violence in the country. Scenes could not be independently verified as showing the Syrian government brutalizing its people. (Associated Press)

Syrian forces reportedly kill more than 200

Syrian security forces this week killed more than 200 people on the eve of a visit by international observers monitoring Syria's compliance with an Arab League peace plan, according to eyewitnesses, activists and opposition sources.

December 21, 2011
**FILE** South Sudan's President Salva Kiirr (center) and Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir (right) stand July 9, 2011, on the podium at the start of independence celebrations in Juba, South Sudan. South Sudan raised the flag of its new nation for the first time, as thousands of South Sudanese citizens swarmed the capital of Juba to celebrate the country's birth. (Associated Press)

South Sudan president denies arming rebels in north

South Sudan's president said Friday that his country is not arming rebels in two of Sudan's border states, from where more than 50,000 refugees have fled fighting in recent months, according to U.N. estimates.

December 16, 2011
A building at Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, was blasted by a car bomb in June 1996, killing 19 U.S. airmen and injuring hundreds more. (Associated Press)

Terrorist attack survivors outraged by White House guest

Survivors of a 1996 terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen are offended that an Iraqi official with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was welcomed to the White House this week.

December 14, 2011
"We know that [natural resources] will either help your country finance its own path out of poverty, or you will fall prey to the natural-resource curse, which will enrich a small elite, outside interests, corporations and countries, and leave your people hardly better off then when you started" - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Conference outlines pathways to prosperity for South Sudan

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged the leaders of oil-rich South Sudan to manage natural resources prudently and warned them against falling prey to unscrupulous corporations and countries.

December 14, 2011
Hadi al-Amiri

Iraqi’s U.S. visit stirs ‘grave concern’

A top House Republican has expressed "grave concern" to President Obama about a visit to the White House by an Iraqi official who led a militia that was financed and armed by Iran.

December 13, 2011
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki makes a point at a joint news conference with President Obama on Monday at the White House. (Associated Press)

Ex-Iran Guard commander visits White House with Iraq leader

A former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the FBI says played a role in a 1996 terrorist attack that killed 19 U.S. servicemen, accompanied Iraq's prime minister to the White House on Monday, attending an event at which President Obama trumpeted the end of the Iraq War.

December 12, 2011
** FILE ** Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, South Sudan's ambassador in Washington (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

U.S. eases sanctions on Sudanese oil industry

The Treasury Department has amended economic sanctions against Sudan by allowing U.S. companies to invest in South Sudan's oil market, which has been dominated by China, India and Malaysia.

December 9, 2011

U.S. warns Iraq against eviction of foes of Iran

A senior U.S. official Wednesday warned Iraq against using violence to evict unarmed Iranian dissidents from a camp north of Baghdad by the end of the month, as a top member of Congress accused the State Department of moving at a snail's pace to prevent what he called a possible massacre of the residents of Camp Ashraf.

December 7, 2011