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Posts Tagged ‘Frontier Constabulary’

Euphoria

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Fiction. Euphoria is the story of a neglected child who grows up a wasted youth. An incident in the village makes him flee. On his journey he experiences life as it is and returns homes several years later entirely a different man.
‘PLUTTT..’ went the pebble in water as Baboo stared at [...]



Sane Reaction From Some US Congressmen on US Attacks in Pakistan

By Rohail Butt • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The Bush administration risks expanding the failed war in Afghanistan into Pakistan, says a US lawmaker while commenting on the US decision to conduct raids into Pakistani territory.
The question of sending US ground troops inside Pakistan seems to have become an
election issue in the United States where voters are scheduled to elect a new president [...]



I am Hurt…

By fzuberi • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

I feel hurt… I feel…injured…
If children…next door die…because of attack on my soil…in my COUNTRY…
by US marines…
AND my army….did not do anything..except condemning the attack…
My Army…my Air Force…My Navy…My own Defence force…
who take up more than 50% of the budget of my country…
If my people are dying…inside the borders…by another army..when innocent children, women & [...]



The “Rat People” of Pakistan

By Saleem Khan • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

You may have read a big news entitled “Rat people forced to beg on Pakistan’s streets“. It was a real shocker to read and, tells of the worst, beyond imaginable, child labour industry. There’s a children’s rights issue you may wish to look into which concerns a very extreme and horrifying form of [...]



Test of Asif Zardari’s Smile

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Sep 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Time to Act, Mr. President

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

A joke goes that a suicide bomber was going to hit his target. Just when he reached there he pushed the button of the bomb attached to his vest. The bomb did not blast because of some manufacturing fault but due to shock and a sense of being torn into pieces the suicide bomber fainted. [...]



‘A Strategy for Pakistan’

By A Khokar • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Daily Washington Post wrote an Editorial on 2 August 2008 under the caption; ‘A Strategy for Pakistan’ and says;The United States must support the new democratic government but also do what is needed to stop al-Qaeda.
To read more please Link; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102880.html
In what ever way panel members on the Washington post editorial, portrays US [...]



Turi Versus Bangash Tribes : Kurram Agency Burns

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

Vicious clashes are going on in the Kurram agency for the last twenty days without any break between the Turi and Bangash tribes in which more than 100 people have died and many are injured. As these tribes fight, there is no political administration or Khasadar force or Frontier Constabulary there to establish and maintain [...]



Another morning…the dawn of another new day…?

By fzuberi • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

“Another morning…the dawn of another new day…”
I wish I could say that, but I can’t. Yesterday saw the death of 60 of my brothers…today when I thought that this new day might bring some consolation to the tears shed yesterday …another explosion…this time a time device targeted on a police inspector…
Well, to [...]



The Challenge of Talibanization and the New Great Game

By amicus • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

 

After the traumatic events of 1971, Pakistan is faced with the most serious crisis in its political history. The Taliban are not knocking at the door, they are now a part and parcel of Pakistani state and society. The process of Talibanization in Pakistan’s north-western region has given rise to new tensions in the body-politic [...]