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Posts Tagged ‘9/11’

Killer Buzzwords

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jun 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Buzzwords stinks. Time to come to basics now. Hassan Nisar rightly pointed out in his interview with Dr. Shahid Masood that all they knew are 400 to 500 sentences and if we snatch these sentences out of their mouth these so called politicians couldn’t speak anymore. Why not to guess the governments through Buzzwords? Like to begin with



Shifting Sands

By A Khokar • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

 If we take the usual defamatory rhetoric in the press about President Pervez Musharraf out—- that the man availed a lateral entry to come to the power and took an infamous action of U-Turn after incident of 9/11 but reality is that there he was who ruled us for eight long years as a President [...]



Obama Quotes From Quran, A Fine Gesture

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

President Barack Hussain Obama is doing a fine job right now of visiting different Muslim countries and his speeches are being applauded throughout the Muslim world, but with justified apprehension and disbelief, as only action will prove and time will tell as how much serious and sincere and independent Obama is in what he says.
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Pakistan’s major threat: US ignorance

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Mar 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

US ignorance regarding the ground realities of Pakistan is a source of major threat to Pakistan, both in terms of its internal dynamics and external security concerns. Taking the internal dynamics first, there were the crude US interventions during the nation’s reassertion of its self in the context of the long march and the demand [...]



Feverish FATA on Placebo

By Dr RazaHaider • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Up till now it is as clear as truth that the composite actions in conductivity, are the typical acts of subversions recipes, as practiced by Indian RAW. Bridges, schools, shelters, offices, resorts and pumps and any thing that may distort economy and move and reversion to peace, is almost destroyed.



Crisis Management in Swat

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Taliban who rose from the ashes of Afghan war now pose some very serious and alarming threat to the Pakistan. The Taliban gave up the peaceful struggle for enforcement of Shariah that was being waged earlier by Maulana Sufi Mohammad’s black-turbaned Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-i-Mohammadi (TNSM) and resorted to the use of force to accomplish their [...]



Pakistan’s Future Hinges on Governance

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There is no doubt about the fact that the major target of all the external powers is the nuclear assets of Pakistan. The pressure which was mounted upon Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks wasn’t just from India, rather US, UK and other EU countries joined in the chorus to press upon Pakistan to rollback or [...]



Shattering Dreams of India

By A Khokar • Jan 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The draconian Imperialistic Neocons (Conservative) policies of U.S. to spread the U.S. hegemonic ambitions have suffered a humiliating set back on almost, all the fronts in the world. In the face of utter U.S. defeat and retreat; U.S. is simply catching on straws to sail back home with some face saving overlay semblance. U.S. riding on the [...]



The Artist Saves the World

By Guest Blogger • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As I sat, watched and listened to the coverage of Israel’s bombing of Gaza, I was sadly reminded of a similar type of the one-sided coverage, that proceeded America’s invasion of Iraq. It was quite easy to question or even tell that the information being put forth, was very inaccurate or just outright lies. ANy [...]



Chances of Indo-Pak War

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Dec 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Douglas S. Feith, who had been undersecretary of defense for policy from July 2001 to August 2005 and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of “War and Decision”, in a fresh article in The Wall Street Journal suggested to president-elect Obama that the carnage in Mumbai will prove a setback for jihadist [...]