The last mission of ex-ISI officer Khalid Khwaja failed but his assassination exposed many hidden secrets, including differences between the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban, and has put a spotlight on his highly complex underworld life, as a mediator, sometimes on behalf of the Americans, a power-broker, a mover and [...]
They sound more like the Tamil Tigers, don’t they. They have done a gruesome act by slaying a Pakistani in the North Waziristan and now getting media limelight.
So the news is that the Asian Tigers, executed former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official Khalid Khwaja near Mir Ali town in North Waziristan on Friday after [...]
Like other areas of the unsettled tribal region and the settled areas of Swat valley, the scenic Bajaur area is overflowing with lush green rolling fields and majestic peaks. It’s beauty was tainted with the terrorism, but now after perseverance of the Pakistan military, things are back to normal once again, and the locals are [...]
Faisalabad, Mandi Bahahuddin, Karak and D.I Khan have seen some failed attempts at igniting sectarian violence and some successful attempts at terrorism, but the evil elements have failed to convert these distributed attacks and attempts into a coherent chain of terrorism to cripple the country.
Suicide attacks have more or less disappeared from NWFP and Punjab [...]
After the dark Pervaiz Musharraf, the tenure of Genral Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani is all about hope and professionalism. A genuine solider, who is committed to his duties and has proved it with his deeds. His achievements in Swat, South Waziristan and other parts of the FATA has earned him an esteem unmatchable to any other [...]
Broadly speaking, t here are two prime motives as why people in Pakistan are joining the ranks of Taliban terrorists. First and foremost is the social injustice and the second one is the Lal Masjid Operation in Islamabad.
In Pakistan, an intense rage is found against the privileged people throughout the country. These elite class is [...]
It certainly means a lot, even more so as compared to any address given by our own president or premier or any other notable government (dys)functionary. It means a lot when we read and understand Obama’s helpeness in his speech regarding the war against terror. It becomes extraordinarily crucial when we read the same approach [...]
Instead of refuting angrily the claims made by the US newspapers that the Afghan Shura of Taliban, which shifted from Kandhar to Quetta in 2001 as the US invaded Afghanistan, has now moved to the Karachi. A port city which is the economic lifeline of Pakistan and which is calm and at rest for the [...]
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud, the lead terrorist of the country right now is vacating areas of South Waziristan agency while putting up little fight in the way of Pakistani security forces.
Kotkai, Sararogha, Ladha and now Makeen is loosely under the control of the security forces. There was little resistance along the way and [...]
People like Seymour M. Herch waste no moment to ridicule the efforts and sacrifice of Pakistan military and Pakistani people in the war against terror, which was started by the Americans, and the primary reason why this war is still going on is that the Americans are failing in Afghanistan and their presence in [...]
