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Posts Tagged ‘Baitullah Mehsud’

Four Scenarios By Namrata Goswami

By Guest Blogger • Aug 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics

The April 4 attack on the paramilitary camp in Islamabad which killed 8 people is claimed to be the handiwork of the Pakistan Taliban. This suicide attack was preceded by an earlier attack on a police academy in Lahore on March 30. Last month, the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore had [...]



Bhittani Should Not Be Encouraged Much

By Sher Ali • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It was us who created the boogie of Baitullah Mehsud. Our security forces struck accords with him again and again and he slipped from the net many a times. Our media over-projected him and made him some kind of supernatural hero. It was our collective fault and negligence that Baitullah Mehsud became a unifying force [...]



Baitullah Dead, TTP Concedes and Powershares Leadership

By Guest Blogger • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) appears to have resolved the issue of succession, for the time-being at least, after belatedly conceding Baitullah Mehsud’s death and distributing the two most important positions in the organisation among the main contenders, Hakimullah Mehsud and Maulana Waliur Rahman Mehsud.
Under the power-sharing formula, the younger man Hakimullah was chosen the TTP [...]



Rehman Malik Well Done

By Gul Raiz • Aug 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Cut the crap and rhetoric and see the results and the thing is that the number of suicide attacks and bomb blasts in major cities of Pakistan like Islambad, Lahore and Karachi have come to halt and the the operation Rah-e-Rast has ended successfully, while the terrorism in the Waziristan area is fastly coming under [...]



Clash Of The Titans

By Muhammad Ali Sajjad • Aug 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Author’s note: It was the post By Maria Sultan on Aug 17th, 2009 under the title “7000 American Marines in Islamabad ???” that prompted me to write this article.
Where It All Began And The Previous Attempts:
Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities has always been a cause of major concern for the Western countries, particularly the USA. And there have [...]



India Needs New Country Manager for Terrorism in Pakistan

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When the people of the world are taking sigh of relief as one beast has been killed and the terrorism is in disarray, the Indian intelligence agency RAW is in the state of mourning. Their million dollar investment has been hit by the drone, followed by clashes among the terrorist commanders for the booty.
Both Hakimullah [...]



Urdu Column

By M Mirza • Aug 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Thank You America

By Rohail Butt • Aug 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

If Baitullah Mehsud has been sent to hell by the hellfire missiles shot from the US drones with the help of intelligence from the Pakistan, then it surely is going to boost the US image in Pakistan and the antagonism towards the Drone attacks among the Pakistanis will be reduced.
It surely is the case that [...]



What if Baitullah is Alive ?

By Maria Sultan • Aug 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Then we all are screwed up and what else. On a more serious note, this whole happening about the death of Terrorist chief Baitullah Mehsud in an American drone attack and then the reaction of Pakistani people has given a strong signal to the Pakistani government, security forces of Pakistan, NATO, US and the whole [...]



Taliban Leadership Perishes : Too Good to be True

By Shayan Khan • Aug 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Killing of Baitullah Mehsud, the ruthless chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and also the death of Qari Hussain, another heavy weight terrorist of TTP in the Drone Attack near Makeen district. Then the clash between Taliban commanders and killing of more leaders.
TTP’s Shura meeting was underway to appoint successor of Baitullah Mehsud after his reported killing [...]