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Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’

What MQM Wants

By Tanzeel • Aug 9th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Death toll in the Karachi city has reached up to 95 and it’s still continues.
As expected ganging up of Land Mafias and religious extremists under the umbrella of ethnic political party ANP (comprised by Pashtoon warriors) has gripped the financial hub of Pakistan. Now the situation is terribly devastating to such an extent that no [...]



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 [...]



Predicting the Unpredictable

By A Khokar • Jun 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Seeing the past track record of ever expanding  phony war on Terror and the usual US lame excuses put forward to prolong the war in the countries that US has continuously been invading to occupy, one after another on some pretext or the other— and we find that US has come and pitched its forces right at [...]



US finding retreat from Afghanistan worst than Vietnam

By A Khokar • Jun 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The developing scenario on the horizon in the West shows that US Pull out from Afghanistan is now eminent and it may start earlier than expected. In the West; all along Afghanistan war has been considered as an unwanted war and consequently Britain as well as Canada are seen impatient to pull out their troops [...]



Afghanistan Has $1 trillion Mineral Deposits : USA Discovers

By Haris Hashmi • Jun 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

“The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials,” the New York Times’ James Risen reported on Monday.
The previously unknown deposits — including huge [...]



Abida Hussain is Right to Demand Drone Attacks in South Punjab

By Gul Raiz • Jun 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The question coined by Abida Hussain is perfectly valid that if drone attacks can be made in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhawa and Balochistan, why cannot they be carried out in southern Punjab? I wholly and whole-hardheartedly believe that where ever are the terrorists, the drone attacks should be used and where the drone attacks fail, nukes [...]



The Laughable Certitude of Foundational Intellectuals

By Dr. Masood Raja • May 23rd, 2010 • Category: Features

In a recent TV interview, Professor Christine Fair, Georgetown University, made the following unfair (I can’t resist the pun here) statement in response to another expert’s views, contrary to hers, on the question of US drone attacks in Pakistan and their linkage to the accentuation of radical responses to the United States by the Taliban [...]



India Rocks in Afghanistan

By A Khokar • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Features

This has been the earnest desire of India that it could exercise a full control over this region. Afghanistan offers a strategic hub location from where this entire region full of economic resources can effectively be kept in control.
Middle East, Iran, Pakistan and other Central Asian States like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan for these [...]



TTP: A Satan in the Robe of a Preacher

By A Khokar • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

To organise a force of volunteers and make them believe in national cause, as is demonstrated by Taliban that they all, very bravely rose up to the occasion to fight for the freedom of their country which is under occupation by foreign forces. Their fight is stretched over such a long period of time which [...]



15 Reasons Why We Can’t Win in Afghanistan

By Guest Blogger • May 10th, 2010 • Category: Politics

1. There is no ” Afghanistan,” only an inchoate collection of warring tribes, factions and clans.
2. To the extent there is an “Afghanistan,” its government is deeply corrupt and unable to control its own divided country.
3. President Kharzai, our “ally” and the official representative of the “state” on whose behalf we fight, would prefer that [...]