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Posts Tagged ‘Ghazni’

What is Next in Afghanistan

By Afshain Afzal • Jan 8th, 2012 • Category: Politics

As per the latest reports, Washington has planned a conclusive round of talks with the Taliban during this month or early next month. To make a conducive atmosphere, western sponsored media has started leaking reports that US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed the name of Amir-ul- Momineen, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar from [...]



Lashkar-e-Zil behind Azad Kashmir suicide hits

By Umer Toor • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Investigations carried out by the Pakistani authorities into the rising incidents of suicide bombings in Azad Kashmir indicate the involvement of the Lashkar-e-Zil (LeZ) or Shadow Army, which is a loose alliance of the al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked anti-US militant groups active in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
According to those investigating the recent suicide bombings in Azad Kashmir, [...]



America Lying About Osama Bin Laden

By Irfan Waheed • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

For the last few months we have been hearing from the American leaders that Osama Bin Laden is somewhere in Quetta and then the US newspapers started clamoring that Osama has shifted to the city of Karachi.
Pakistani premier Yousuf Raza Gilani said that Osama is not in Pakistan in UK. Americans didn’t believe that.
Then a [...]



Prisoner 650(Grey Ghost of Bagram)

By Asim • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

My name is Prisoner 650,
Known I am as the “Grey Ghost”
Of Bagram, my home, remember me
In years of silence, in moments
Of indifference, created by you
Familiar are those walls and rooms
Of torture, of questions and of abuse
Familiar are those old echoes,
As all ideologies fall away in shame
Of protection of rights and freedom
Familiar I am to these [...]



Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Mohammad Bin Qasim

By M Mirza • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Grey Lady Aafia Siddiqui Surfaces

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

So they say that she grabbed the pistol of an American warrant officer, and then shot at another American captain within a room, missed, and then she was shot, subdued by the American soldiers and FBI agents present. Up till the last moment, the dangerous Al Qaeda operative struggled and kicked and hurled customery expected [...]