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Posts Tagged ‘America’

We Should Welcome America to Attack FATA

By Gul Raiz • May 30th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It is no secret now for us and for the world that the tribal region of the Pakistan has become a safe heaven for the terrorists, which are a threat not only to the Pakistan but also for the whole world. Recent most glaring example is the ties between Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad and [...]



Pakistanis Stand with Americans : Shame on Faisal Shehzad

By Altaf Khan • May 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

In my opinion, the claim made by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Taliban terrorist Movement of Pakistan regarding taking responsibility of the time square attack is false and aimed at gaining publicity.
Qari Hussain, the notorious mentor of Taliban suicide bombers, in one of the tapes has talked about taking onus of these attacks and also [...]



What Pakistan Should Ask from America in Nuclear

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Nuclear capability is a reality and Pakistan is a quality nuclear power, and that fact is known by everyone. World has accepted this fact as de facto and they can take it as officially if the foreign missions of Pakistan work day in and day out to ensure that. That would require hardwork and commitment, [...]



Nuclear Security Summit

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Apr 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

These days nuclear matters are on the centre stage of international affairs. America’s ‘Nuclear Posture Review’ (NPR) and signing of ‘Nuclear Arms Treaty’ between USA and Russia had set the wheel in motion for the far more trickier event of ‘Nuclear Security Summit’ (NSS), where around forty seven states are deliberating the measures to strengthen [...]



We Should Sometimes Thank America

By Tazeen • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Like it or not, many Pakistanis and their numbers are rising rapidly believe that the drone attacks by the Americans in the FATA region are justified and they support these attacks. We all know that our military and the government are also on board in that regard and they know the blow which these drone [...]



Terrorists are at the gates of Nukes, US Still fears

By Tazeen • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Once again, after a short lull, the Western media has once again started to whine that the terrorists within Pakistan could any time storm and capture the Pakistani nuclear installations. It’s a matter of open guessing that whether Americans and their cousines are worried, fearful or they are just making up an excuse to take [...]



The Changing Tides

By Mohammad Ali • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

This article is highlighting the threats Pakistan may face from Afghanistan and India in near future in the lights of the current Afghan Policy set in London and in the speech of the US President Barack Obama.



Bumper Sticker of the Year

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment


IPL and Cricket Politics

By captainjohann • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

I was a young boy when 17 year old Hanif Mohamed came to India under Hafeez Kardar. I saw only a clip of his batting in INR( Indian news review) for may be a minute and i was impressed. I genuinely rejoiced when Pakistan beat the English cricket team at Lords an achievement India is [...]



Understanding the Threat

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It could not have been a mere coincidence that both George Bush Jr and President Obama chose the military setting of West Point to proclaim their new militarist strategic doctrines - one, an extensive global doctrine of pre-emption and rejection of deterrence, the other relating to Afghanistan. The scope of the two statements reflects the [...]