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Posts Tagged ‘Al-Qaeda’

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 [...]



Clean Chit to Pakistan by US?

By Altaf Khan • May 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

There can be no peace, no stability, no democracy and prosperity in Pakistan, unless the violent extremists are removed. But there also cannot be any peace if the US keep carrying on drone attacks on Pakistan and keep supporting the terrorists in Balochistan and the Mehsud terrorists in Waziristan.
If United States government fails to [...]



A Destabilized Pakistan: Who is guilty?

By Shaukat Masood Zafar • May 24th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik had told then US ambassador Anne Patterson that it was not chief of army staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani but ISI chief Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha who was hatching conspiracies against President Asif Ali Zardari , according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
The US embassy cables revealed that Malik sought an [...]



Why Shuja Pasha Must Apologise

By A Khokar • May 17th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Whereas this may be the limitation of technology that Pakistan possesses in shape of High and low altitude Radar system. Especially the low altitude Radar sets that they do not pick up the helicopters moving along the hilly terrain within the valleys and it remains total invisible on Radar Screen. The carbon powder coating and other [...]



How Al-Qaeda came to know that Osama bin Laden is dead?

By Asad ur Rehman • May 13th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The 2nd May operation in Abbotabad was a high secret operation and no one else than U.S administration knew that operation is going to be conducted. Even the Pakistani forces, ISI and civil government had been kept in dark. They had no prior information that operation will be conducted. No one had any idea regarding this operation



Where is Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • May 2nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

It seems that there is some really solid weight behind the claim of US that the Osama Bin Laden has been killed. But this has left a great trail of the gaping question, and the biggest of them is that “Where is Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri?”
Both Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri always [...]



A Painful Perception

By Khalid Humayun • Apr 5th, 2011 • Category: Worth A Second Look

During a talk show on Fox News, host Brian Kilmeade spoke “all muslims are not terrorists but all Terrorists are Muslims”.  Kilmeade while apologizing his misquote also added “but that is that”, meaning thereby, facts speak for themselves.   Another veteran journalist and news analyst Juan Williams on Fox’s “The O’reilly Factor” Talk Show, said “Muslims [...]



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 [...]



America has no permanent friends; just American interests

By A Khokar • May 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Taliban can well be defined as the group which came in power after the end of Afghan war in Afghanistan. This group was weary of a trivial US byplay that their main benefactor, on the behest of whom they fought Afghan war and had very successfully defeated Soviet Union, it un-expectantly dumped them and left.
This [...]



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 [...]