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Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’

Has Pakistan started making too loud noises?

By A Khokar • Oct 2nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

All the US proxies they carry a sell by date and Pakistan seems to have spent that time.
Pakistan is a peace loving democratic Islamic country and has taken US in friendship on nation to nation equality bases but for the US obnoxious and cannibalistic behavior and threatening to attack its sovereignty in recent days has [...]



Clash of Civilizations: Christians & Muslims??

By Dil Nawaz • Dec 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

As a student of history of relations between Muslims and Christians, the headlines have made grim readings for me personally, as I genuinely feel that there is a connection between both traditions of the Followers of the Books of Abraham.
56 killed in a Baghdad church and continuous attacks on Christian neighbourhoods of Iraq, Iraq’s Christian [...]



Abida Hussain is Right to Demand Drone Attacks in South Punjab

By Gul Raiz • Jun 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The question coined by Abida Hussain is perfectly valid that if drone attacks can be made in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhawa and Balochistan, why cannot they be carried out in southern Punjab? I wholly and whole-hardheartedly believe that where ever are the terrorists, the drone attacks should be used and where the drone attacks fail, nukes [...]



Drones fuelling the fire

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Jun 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In The Strategies of War, Robert Greene writes: Rommel once made a distinction between a gamble and a risk. Both cases involve an action with only a chance of success, a chance that is heightened by acting with boldness. The difference is that with a risk if you lose, you can recover. Your reputation will [...]



SOS - From Faith Massacre

By Aftab Alam • May 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Inflicting, bringing forth & maintaining severe bleeding wounds; Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq & Afghanistan in Muslims spiritual as well as geographical body on one hand and provoking Muslims Masses by carrying out very blasphemous &  rude caricatures in innumerable websites on the other, are the deeds which are very much fertile seeds of terrorism being sown [...]



Iraq Beyond Elections

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Mar 25th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Despite discouraging spates of violence, turn out during the Iraqi elections has been quite impressive. Luckily, unlike the Afghan elections, Iraqi electoral process has been able to retain credibility as well. Enthusiasm displayed by all cross sections of Iraqi society indicated the nation’s will to rise to the occasion; it appears to be a proverbial [...]



On religious discrimination, India next only to Iraq

By Isha Khan • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

For India, international recognition of its free and pluralistic society has always been hard to come by and while things are changing, they are clearly changing slowly. A study carried out by Washington-based Pew Research Centre, the highly respected US thinktank, said India is next only to Iraq when it comes to social hostility and [...]



Yours and Perhaps Ours

By Arzoo Zaheer • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Dedication: To myself. J I have this funny way of connecting with trees. I have been looking at the Apple tree that belongs to our neighbors, for quite a while. For some reason, my mind had been transfixed at this tree for several days.  Eventually, after several days of “void staring”, I came up with [...]



What if America Attacks Pakistan

By Sher Ali • Oct 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Though there are very little chances that the superpower would commit such a folly, but one has to be prepared for such adventure. Majority of the Pakistanis want friendship with the US on common grounds and equal footings, but our rulers have sold us cheap and with degradation.
As soon as the attack would come from [...]



Kerry-Lugar and Blackwater: by ‘Reluctant Anti-Americanist’

By Dil Nawaz • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Certain brands define the love-hate relationship that Pakistan has had with the United States of America over the past 60 years. America has been the biggest and most advanced ‘Superpower’ of the world. American technology, capital markets and economy is the biggest in the world. Pakistan as a third world country needs investment and technology [...]