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Posts Tagged ‘Baitullah Mehsud’

Where is Dupatta and Purse of Benazir Bhutto?

By Salman Mugsi • Apr 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

We would have thought that the money has spent rightly had we got the answer to the question that where had the head-scarf (duppatta) and the purse of Benazir Bhutto vanished after she was assassinated. The UN report is a farce, we all know and we are once again at square zero.
This is a common [...]



UN Didn’t Tell, Now Zardari Should Expose Benazir’s Killers

By Salman Mugsi • Apr 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

I vividly remember, the volcanic and very thrilling speech delivered by President of Pakistan, the widower of Benazir Bhutto in the Gari Khuda Bux, in which he shocked everybody by telling that he knew who assassinated Benazir Bhutto, and he also said that he didn’t believe the official Musharraf government version of Benazir getting killed [...]



Indian Agree to Disagree Posture

By Guest Blogger • Apr 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The world is ruled by the human motives or intentions. There is common cliché  that you can take the horse to well but cannot force him to drink the water. Pakistan is a victim of Kashmir cause, water piracy and a multitude of other issues but India does not want to talk. New Delhi has [...]



Investigation of Benazir’s Murder

By Irfan Waheed • Nov 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s been quite a long as the Pakistan People’s Party, the party of Benazir Bhutto, the late two time Prime Minister of Pakistan is in the rule, but the case investigation of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination is going no where.
The commission of United Nations hired by the PPPP government is moving on in lethargic fashion and [...]



Hakimullah Mehsud Also Dead?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

American and Pakistani Intelligence outfits are pretty much sure that the new leader of Taliban terrorists, after the welcome death of Baitullah Mehsud is also dead and he became the target of the splinter Taliban faction who wanted to succeed as Taliban leader. More than likely Hakimullah got killed in crossfire as fight erupted in [...]



Baitullah Mehsud Video Dead

By Sher Ali • Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

A brief video showing the dead body of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud, killed in a US drone attack last month, came to surface today.
The video of less than two minutes duration shows the bodies of Mehsud and his wife moments after they were hit by missiles splinters fired by a US drone on the [...]



Terrorism Confusion in Pakistan Receding

By Fatima Tassaduq • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Just some months back, if you would have tried to take a sampling from crowd at any public place as what they thought about the terrorism in Pakistan, you would have got disparate and confusing statements. One of the biggest issues in getting such sampling together was manifest at the outset when, like the famous [...]



We Must Not Ignore Swat and FATA

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

With beguilers putting up different sorts of decoys and with urchins of old times mushrooming to prove their honesty, real issues have been pushed back. Sugar crisis, rental power plants, corruption stories in Islamabad and other issues are also there to haunt the nation along with the debate of Musharraf’s fate and 17th amendment.
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Use of drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan: deadly, but legal?

By Guest Blogger • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Unmanned Predator drones have become the face of the US war on terrorism, an unconventional response to an unconventional enemy. And they are seemingly effective. Last week, they struck down one of the US military’s most-wanted enemies: Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban.
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Chaos and neglect — national drift

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

As another 14th August approaches, there is so much disarray and violence across the land and amid it all there is a qualitative increase in the dangerous trend of giving over sovereign space – both in terms of physical land as well as people – that one barely knows where to begin commenting. However, since [...]