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Let’s Play Ali Baba; Chalees chor

By A Khokar • Sep 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Strange it is; there is lot of hue and cry heard against American Drone attacks. The graph of US killings is staggering high but our friends Taliban or Al-Qaeda have yet to bring up any effective weapon for their defence to counter such attacks. For Al Qaeda or Taliban … if only they had got [...]



Spicing it up with Blood Brothers Theory

By A Khokar • Sep 11th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The map shown by Altaf Hussain MQM, during his Press Conference with redrawn borders arrangement of Pakistan is not something new that we may have come across. This is a known conspiracy theory which is said to be breeding in Pakistan. In fact he is referring to an old known puke spewed once by one [...]



CIA- An Army in the Shadows

By A Khokar • Sep 5th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In Friday’s Washington Post, the paper published a must-read study tracing the evolution of the Central Intelligence Agency from an intelligence-collection and -analysis operation to a new shadow military force.
In the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the agency has undergone a fundamental transformation. Although the CIA continues to gather intelligence and furnish analysis [...]



Enough is enough

By A Khokar • Aug 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

This news is in circulation that peoples from all walks of life have started demanding that in the wake of prevalent anarchy in Karachi and aggravating situation in the country, Military is asked to take charge of this country. Some of the circles are desperately demanding that even the previous government of General Pervez Musharraf [...]



The Darkened Horizon

By A Khokar • Jul 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Watched the most horrible Video of Killing of some 16 Policemen by TTP that sometimes back in one of their raid at police chowki in FATA; they abducted number of policemen from the post and were keeping them as hostages. TTP has finally released Video where all of them are killed by their firing squad.
The [...]



Let’s our enemy not find us off guard when it strikes

By A Khokar • Jul 12th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

US has lost its war against terror in Afghanistan but as a last resort US is trying to indulge in a futile effort to make her proxy Pakistan, a convenient scapegoat to cover up all her failings. History of US defeat in Vietnam War is being repeated where Vietnam neighboring country; Cambodia was blamed for [...]



Obama sets Pakistan a target to declare his Final Victory in War against Terror

By A Khokar • Jun 24th, 2011 • Category: Politics

After the successful US stealth raid at Osama bin laden compound in Abbotabad; Obama believes that Pakistan is harbouring all the other top level Al Qaeda commanders and looks forward to declare a Final Victory in War against Terror—by eliminating them on Pakistani soil by using US lead allied forces. Obama announced this in his national speech [...]



Pak Military under its Seasonal US Pruning

By A Khokar • Jun 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

All the states in the world, they have their militaries but in Pakistan, its military has a state of its own and is virtually in command and control of its rein. The present day civilian democratic facade seen erected there, serves a phony facade just to facilitate the safe sailing of military through the troubled waters on [...]



Saleem Shahzad: the man who knew too much

By A Khokar • Jun 4th, 2011 • Category: Worth A Second Look

It is learnt that Saleem shahzad had a gunshot wound that he got few days back in a scuffle at a hotel and had some ribs broken and possibly lung punctured. It is generally believed that since man set off from home to go for an interview by Naseem Zohra at Dunya TV station. Soon [...]



Several Staff members broke faith at Mehran Naval base

By A Khokar • May 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Koi Aour to naheen hay Pas e khanjar Azmaie
It is a chilling developing story of Meharan Naval base and the armed personals of this base giving a great set back to the entire nation and the image of its Armed Forces.
This story starts when General Ziaul Haque during his tenure used religion as a tool [...]