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Remembering Srebrenica Massacre

By Asiya Riaz • Jul 11th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Tens of thousands of people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslims by Bosnian Serbs and bury 775 newly identified victims.
The massacre, the worst single atrocity on European soil since World War II, is the darkest episode in the violent break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
A [...]



Is Waziristan Operation a Success?

By Asiya Riaz • Dec 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

We are not watching the kind of intensity and success in South Waziristan Operation as we saw during the operation in the Malakand Agency earlier this year. The success was felt on daily basis and we knew when we won and we knew when we had the area in our grip. But what do we [...]



Terrorism Today

By Asiya Riaz • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Our history is full of paradoxes and follies and brazen acts of shamelessness. National interest in our history has been defined by a few and mostly imposed through the power of gun. What we face today are the cumulative consequences of faulty choices. All this terrorism today has it’s root from those wrong choices.
Terrorism, bad [...]