Where Pakistani forces and the security agencies are trying their utmost best to safeguard the interests of the Pakistan, the terrorists outfits who are being funded by the foreign powers are busy at damaging the Pakistan’s foundations and along with carrying out the attacks, they are providing apt opportunities to the CIA and NATO forces [...]
A burning question is before all of us at the dawn of new decade; why terrorism? The interpretations given by the advocates of the global war against the so-called enemy, ‘the terror’, are indeed mind-boggling. Many know that the dominant discourse of the world politics coins phrases and doctrines of the Superpower’s choice, for the [...]
America has to get out of Afghanistan by the end of the 2014 and they have to finish the counter-insurgency against the Taliban by the end of the 2012. But the thing is that US has failed to do so and believe that it is impossible without the help of Pakistan, and they want Pakistan [...]
Some facts are bare; some obscure or in the realm of conjectures.
That the United States wants to eliminate the safe havens of Al-Qaeda and its allies from Pakistani territory is very much clear; what is not manifest is the American agenda for Pakistan in the context of the new ‘Great Game’ that is being played [...]
Few days, much awaited and deliberated response of Pak army on Osama episode made headlines in the leading US papers: The New York Times and The Washington Post. The chief of army staff is under immense pressure and clinging to his post, the report says. For the first time in Pakistan’s history, a serving army [...]
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 [...]
In an interview in 1998 Mr Brzezinski, the then national security advisor to president Carter, stated: “It was July 3, 1979 that president Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. We did not push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that [...]
Even if Osama Bin Laden is dead and so his many acolytes in the Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Al Qaeda still has the capacity to stage international attacks from Pakistan despite US forces’ killing of the extremist network’s leader Osama bin Laden.
Although the AQ (Al Qaeda) core is clearly weaker, it retains [...]
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 [...]
Syed Shahzad, a well knownr journalist who was the Pakistan Bureau Chief of Asia Times online (Hong Kong) and had recently disclosed in an article that members of Pakistans Naval Forces have sympathies for Al-Qaeda and Taliban. He further added that Al-Qaeda carried out the brazen attack on PNS Mehran naval air station in Karachi [...]
