The Pakistani Spectator

A Candid Blog


Posts Tagged ‘Af-Pak’

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 [...]



East or the West: It is the Enigma of Fear at work

By A Khokar • Jul 1st, 2010 • Category: Features

For last about a decade or so we all find ourselves put up against a phoney Global War against Terrorism, where Western Forces with their might and savagery are all out at war in Muslim World to conquer an unspecified imaginary enemy called—terror. After wandering for several years and with no achievements at hand; the [...]



Pakistan:in the Eye of the Storm of Terror

By A Khokar • Jun 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The region of Middle East, Central Asia and Pakistan; that the futurists and the Neocons ( US conservative) they like to call it the Greater Middle East. This entire region is finding itself in the grip of the Storm of terrorism and the destruction of its tornadoes are widely felt by the recipients and the [...]



Paradigm shift in Afghanistan

By Dr. Huma Mir • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Politics

President Obama’s AF–PAK policy unveiled only last year is dead. There is a paradigm shift, in a total turnaround to Obama’s inaugural pledge to defeat Al-Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan. Today US and ISAF appear reconciled to the fact that, they cannot defeat them. The new design is to get the Afghan government to engage [...]



Regional violence linked to Kashmir

By Mashaal Javed • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The Pakistani army’s fight against Taliban insurgents continues successfully in the FATA area and its surroundings. Despite many pledges from the friends of Pakistan only a couple of countries have made good their commitments whereas the other friends are yet to make good on their pledges. Despite the lacklustre response from the world on helping [...]



India is Poised to Take over Af-Pak War Theatre

By A Khokar • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Once again the US divisive rhetoric of ‘Quetta shura’ is in spin which indicates that US is now all out to push her Afghanistan war inside Pakistan. Pak government has expressed its ‘surprise’ at the latest volatile interview of US Ambassador Anne W Patterson and said that there was clearly a “huge disconnect” between Washington [...]



Pakistan Nuclear Assets Are Safe, Take Care of Your’s

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

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 [...]



Pakistan Presents More Exciting War Scenario For Obama

By A Khokar • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The more one hears the discussion among American Democrats about the war in Afghanistan, the more one feels that it is a serious handicap that Barrack Obama has no personal experience of international relations or of foreign policy or military service, beyond such experience as one gains as a first-term U.S. senator.
His vice president, Joe [...]