Oxford Dictionary defines the noun as ‘the action of defending from or resisting attack’. The rulers of Pakistan, in their speeches, with great pride commemorated the Defense Day. Gillani said that “our Defense our impregnable”. Its ironic, how at the same time Wikileaks is exposing the compliance of the rulers in tearing apart the defense [...]
In Pakistan everybody knows who are the Navy Seals. Pakistanis are in the awe of that forces and truly appreciate their professionalism, competence and the ability. In Pakistan everybody also knows what Black Water or Xe is and the name of Eric Prince, the founder of Blackwater is also not unknown. It might be interesting [...]
Two weeks ago, I talked with Naomi Klein about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. If you missed the original video, you can watch it here, and the longer transcript is here. You can also learn more about the book and read excerpts here.
At that point, the Blackwater scandal over [...]
A Senate investigation accuses the Army of turning a blind eye when a Blackwater subsidiary hired violent drug users to help train the Afghan army and declared “sidearms for everyone” even though employees weren’t authorized to carry weapons.
The inquiry by the Senate Armed Services Committee found that contractors for Paravant, the Blackwater subsidiary under investigation, [...]
President Obama’s inaugural pledge to defeat Al Qaeda and Taliban appears in stark contrast to the ground realities in Afghanistan. Obama’s much hyped AF PAK policy is believed to have been practically castigated to history after multiple reviews. The US military’s assessment of the war in Afghanistan too paints a bleak picture. The Taliban today [...]
“Blackwater Worldwide’s legal woes haven’t dimmed the company’s prospects in Afghanistan, where it’s a contender to be a key part of President Barack Obama’s strategy for stabilizing the country,” the AP reported recently.
Now called Xe Services, the company is in the running for a Pentagon contract potentially worth $1 billion to train Afghanistan’s troubled national [...]
We didn’t need the ratification of Robert Gates that the infamous murderous organization like Blackwater is operating in Pakistan. Islamabad, Karachi and Peshawar have become dens of Blackwater and though our interior minister is still unaware of their presence, media is screaming hoarse about their activities.
Senior investigative journalists of GEO news and Jang has disclosed [...]
The three US soldiers who lost their lives on Wednesday in a school bombing incident in Dir Lower were members of the Army Special Forces, which has been training the Frontier Corps to improve its intelligence and combat tactics to effectively fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban insurgents in the Pak-Afghan tribal belt.
It is for the [...]
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has admitted the presence of Blackwater in Pakistan and suddenly ANP’s Mr Bilour has also confirmed that Blackwater is in Pakistan with the permission of the Government. Now why did Mr Rehman Malik continue to swear that there was no Blackwater in Pakistan and if he was proven wrong, he [...]
Pakistan’s foreign office has `dismissed US newspaper’s article over the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear assets’. It termed the assertions made in the article `utterly misleading and totally baseless’. The FO’s rebuttal was obviously aimed at Seymour M. Hersh’s article “Defending the Arsenal: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? The author had [...]
