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Posts Tagged ‘ISI’

Options For Military Establishment in Pakistan

By Maria Sultan • Jan 25th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

I don’t subscribe to the notions that our military establishment has learned its lessons and all of a sudden have become pro-democracy and have started abhorring the dictatorship, and will never stage any sort of coup ever in the future. That is so naive and so preposterous.
I am sure the apatite for ruling the country [...]



Who Paid Mansoor Ijaz?

By Rohail Butt • Jan 16th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Rehman Malik tried to implicate the leadership of PML-N and implied that Nawaz Sharif was behind the memogate conspiracy, and Nawaz Sharif paid Mansoor Ijaz to create fissures and confrontation between the military establishment and PPP government.
Military establishment refused to accept this excuse from Rehman Malik and demanded the head of the Husain Haqqani which [...]



Elephants Fight for Power, Ants Fighting for Power Too

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 13th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Chief of Army Staff Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani and ISI chief Shuja Pasha have given explicit warnings in words through ISPR to the government to behave, and they have also warned Gilani-Zardari duo with their action of changing the commander of the dreaded Triple One brigade.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani after holding a one-on-one meeting with [...]



Yes I am CIA and RAW Agent

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jan 11th, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The reason why I believe that nobody can change the course of affairs in Pakistan is because the country is run by the GHQ and ISI. Can I be more candid than that?
I know there is lots of pressure because of some of articles here on the TPS runners, but I cannot remain silent of [...]



Indian Administration in Afghanistan

By Adnan Arshad Mansoori • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Whatever Indian, American, or even Brits Participants tried to paint their own or very specific Indian Role at Afghanistan as if such Role is very much appreciated at Afghanistan moreover this role is very remarkable over-there.
According to reliable sources Americans and Indians were welcome at Northern Afghanistan tentatively 5 to 6% of Local Population although [...]



Imran Khan : Raising the Political Temperature

By Robin Mitha • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Imran Khan’s rise in popularity and the impressive turnout at his Lahore and Karachi public meetings is no mean feat and has stunned many. Conspiracy theories abound. Is the establishment and ISI propping up the PTI to achieve some new objective, is a hot topic of debate. While everyone is asking the million dollar question [...]



Notions of Strategic Depth

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Drone and suicide bomber are the new facets of contemporary warfare; representing the concepts of ‘bomb without man’ and ‘man as a bomb’. Moreover, all nuclear states have a tendency to indulge in proxy wars through non-state actors and third party state actors. These warfare related innovations have altered the conventional time space calculus; thus [...]



Issue Ignored is a Crisis Invited

By Zeenat Rehman • Dec 28th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

US-led Northern Distribution Network (NDN) transiting provisions to coalition forces in Afghanistan comprises of 70% of the NATO supply, while Pakistani routes provide only 30% of them, and as the blockage of NATO supply lines continues in Pakistan, US has finally agreed to a total overhaul in Pakistan and their talks with the Pakistani establishment [...]



The Politics of Uncertainty

By amicus • Dec 27th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

On 25th December, the nation celebrates the 135th Birth anniversary of Quid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Jinnah’s vision of Pakistan was, “There is no doubt that the future of our state will and must greatly depend upon the type of education and way in which we bring up our children as the future servants of Pakistan…What [...]



Let this truth be known

By A Khokar • Dec 26th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Although it is yet to be proved whether memogate scandal cooked by the personal cabinet of President Zardari for their treachorous act, asking the US government to demonize Pakistani armed forces and risking the national security is true or false but it has done one thing; it has brought Pak Military, government, Judiciary and the [...]