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Posts Tagged ‘CIA’

Shamsi Airbase; Red With Pakistan-Afghan Blood

By Ali Yar Khan • Dec 16th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In his celebrated column Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan mentioned that 16th December, 1971 was the day when we as a nation must have learned some ever-lasting lessons, but we didn’t. Dhaka we lost, and General Niazi surrendered along with 90 thousands soldiers. A Hamoood-ur-Rehman commission was formed, and it put forward it’s truthful facts and [...]



Beyond BONN II

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Dec 14th, 2011 • Category: Politics

As expected, Bonn II Conference did not go beyond the rhetoric. Conference convened to encourage talks with the Taliban and boost the regional cooperation, brought forth the reality of a dead ended peace process sans Pakistan. Though Taliban had been engaged in peace talks for years, they also didn’t show up for the event; they [...]



Memo-Circus: The Winners and Losers!

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Dec 2nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

Sporadic fireworks have always been a regular part of Pak-US relations. Successive governments have been managing the bilateral relationship despite huge gap between the state policy and public opinion. Ironically, some facets of these relations which our successive governments thought were mutually beneficial, at times, drew a sharp public reaction. Strategic divergence between Pakistan and [...]



No Aman Ki Asha

By Sher Ali • Dec 2nd, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It’s not much long ago that India and United States signed many huge defense and nuclear pacts and caused migraine to Pakistan and China. Then United States was pushing India hard against China and was even ignoring Pakistan, its ally in the war against terror.
The then American president Bush said that India and America were [...]



CIA lured in NATO forces to attack Pakistani posts

By A Khokar • Dec 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

There are latest reports that TTP hirelings are being heavily armed and paid by CIA and made to infiltrate in Pakistan from Afghanistan. They are assigned with the tasks to fire back especially by mortars fire on different borders villages from inside Pakistan to instigate the military clashes on the border.
Recently civilian causalities have also [...]



Profile of Mansoor Ijaz

By Umer Toor • Nov 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Memogate scandal is just there to harm the good name of President Zardari and his government. You need not to go any further but just to read the profile of this man Mansoor Ijaz who has initiated all this mudslinging:
Mansoor Ijaz is an American citizen who was born in Florida America in 1961. Mansoor Ijaz’s [...]



Is Pakistan Double Crossing America?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 10th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

On the big canvas of South Asia, Afghanistan is painted in red right now, and that is the focus of the world. Many world powers are involved in this mess, and all kinds of violent and not-so-violent politics is being played and Pakistan is at the center stage of all of this drama. As Pakistan [...]



Hillary’s Visit to Pakistan 2011

By Inam R Sehri • Oct 27th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

During the third week of October 2011, the US Secretary Hillary Clinton was in Islamabad with a delegation attempting to push Pakistan into action against the Haqqani network. Accompanied by the Director of the CIA, David Petraeus, and the newly appointed military chief, Gen Martin Dempsey, Hillary held long meetings with Gen Kayani, Pakistan’s Army [...]



APC & Pakistan - Must Declare Holy War

By Adnan Arshad Mansoori • Oct 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

No Big surprise! Knew it was just a Political Stunt! Big Burning Issue is Zardari & Co. who is an ESTABLISHED deputed American tool! Of course, it’s a political fake Show. Asif Zardari is so desperate to bring attention to his campaign against whatever his stance upon WoT plus his ASSETTS which are SITUATED at [...]



Pak-America New Relationship

By Inam R Sehri • Sep 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

On 13th September 2011, the American Embassy in Kabul and the NATO Offices situated nearby were attacked by Taliban, providing enough evidence that the Karzai government is, at last, loosing its control over the capital too.
[US Embassy in Kabul’s official statement: The attack, which ended on Wednesday morning, (14th Sep) lasted as a 20-hour [...]