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Posts Tagged ‘Drone Attacks’

The Armed Diplomat

By Talal Hussain Malik • Feb 8th, 2011 • Category: Politics

IT is the first incident of its kind in this land of the pure where two civilians were brutally shot dead in broad daylight on an open road by a foreign national, allegedly a ‘diplomat’. A nation where scores of people are killed in drone attacks every week and where ‘diplomats’ carry arsenal for reasons [...]



The Laughable Certitude of Foundational Intellectuals

By Dr. Masood Raja • May 23rd, 2010 • Category: Features

In a recent TV interview, Professor Christine Fair, Georgetown University, made the following unfair (I can’t resist the pun here) statement in response to another expert’s views, contrary to hers, on the question of US drone attacks in Pakistan and their linkage to the accentuation of radical responses to the United States by the Taliban [...]



Musharraf Admits Another Crime

By Salman Mugsi • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Though the current long list of crimes committed by the most hated, the former dictator General (retard) Pervez Musharraf is enough to send him to the gallows after a short trial, the big mouth fool admits to yet another crime boastfully.
Perhaps he was too elated to get the media attention in these days of his [...]



How Could We Stop America from Drone Attacks?

By Ali Yar Khan • Apr 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s ridiculous, simply preposterous to ask America to stop the Drone Attacks in the tribal belt and even more funny to “warn” US to not to go in the Balochistan. It’s a sad joke that at one side our president and his cabinet is having a ball in Islamabad as the US has approved some [...]



What Will Happen If US Attacks Balochistan

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Mar 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

As the Summer is approaching, USA is poised to strike the hellfire missiles in the surroundings of the Quetta. Barack Obama administration has put redline around the Quetta city. US has said that the Afghani Taliban after attacking the NATO and US forces in the Southern Afghanistan take refuge in the suburbs of Quetta. US [...]



Obama or Bush : Drone Attacks Will Go On

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Hillary Clinton, brand new US Secretary of State but an old player has made that clear to Pakistan.
Twenty people, majority of them local tribesmen, were killed and several others were injured in two different missile strikes by US drones in North and South Waziristan tribal agencies on last Friday evening, the first such attacks [...]



The Hell is About to Break

By A Khokar • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The provocative drone attacks of U.S Special Forces in FATA area are on as ever. Most of the Pakistanis had a hope that probably with the incoming of new U.S. administration headed by President Barack Hussien Obama; the overall situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan may take a different turn. But another drone missile attack on [...]



Inaugural Day: Obama Need to Learn from Bush

By Farid Masood • Jan 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

As per saying of new president of United State Barack Obama that ‘Change has Come to America’. The change that is much needed for the American Nation and the rest of the world too. Change that was felt in 20th century after World War I and then after World War II. This feeling of change [...]



Democracy Promotion and Islam — Part 1

By Prof. Michael Brenner • Jan 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The moment is propitious to take a hard look at the efficacy of strategies designed to promote liberal political values in Islamic societies. The metaphoric democratic wave that gained impetus from the Soviet Union’s breakup has registered successes in most of the world. The Islamic world, the Arab Middle East in particular, still stands out [...]