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Posts Tagged ‘jihad’

Guerrilla War Terrible Tricks

By Aftab Alam • Oct 3rd, 2011 • Category: Politics

Once upon a time some pages of an extremely sought after book came to my hand and being student, young, raring to go & an agog trainee under the Holy Jihad Training Camp during Afghan Jihad, I went through the same. But could read & learn only one trick therefrom. Name of the book was [...]



Pakistan Army: Rogue Army or Frustrated American Ambition?

By Atif Salahuddin • Jul 19th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The American raid in Abbottabad in which Osama Bin Laden was apparently killed has brought renewed Western accusations and scrutiny upon Pakistan like never before. Amongst the fallout of the raid for Pakistan have been lurid allegations and an intense focus on the Pakistani military itself, questioning its commitment to America’s ‘War on Terror’. In [...]



Papu fails yet again in Pakistan Affairs paper

By Ayaz Kolachi • Jul 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

Cable:2
Subject: declassified
Subject: Papu fails yet again in Pakistan Affairs paper.
Summary.
Papu was desperate to win high scores in his respective papers that year.He knew his genius had a milk run with academic ups and downs.But he was prepared this time to silence his critics with his big scores.But bad luck never seemed to [...]



Indo-Pak relations & Duplicitous policy

By Naveed Baloch • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After the Mumbai bomb blasts last November, Indian print and electronic media directly criticised Pakistan and tried to create an image of it as a failed state. Non-journalistic and undiplomatic language was used against Pakistan, which brought both countries very close to a terrible war. Timely and truthful analysis and commentary by Pakistani media helped [...]



Do We Know the Meaning of Democracy?

By Tahir Hameed • Jan 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The nation clamors for democracy but do they know what it means and what it entails. What sort of a democracy can we expect in a nation where our characters are much like a chameleon that changes so many colors? In a nation where there are so many hypocrites and so many liars and thieves, [...]



Crack the Criminal Calm

By Aftab Alam • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

By no stretch of imagination the ruthless killing of the innocent Pakistani security personnels & civilians can be termed as Jihad. It is fasad of very high grade and its committer must be called fasadi and they must not be called jihadi. Even during the real Jihad killing of aged persons, women and children is [...]



Kya Ub Bhi

By M Mirza • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: Features


Yaum-e-Khatam-e-Nabuat

By Rai Azlan • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

The word MUSALMAN is a combination of two things MUSALM (solid) & IMAN (faith); which means being a Muslim is about having firm and solid faith upon certain facts. One of those facts that must be strictly followed by a Muslim is to accept Hazrat Muhammad S.A.W. as the final and last Prophet of Allah.
The [...]



America need to Define Islam

By Dr RazaHaider • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Misc

America being, the state of art and advancement, can not be expected to show its incapabilities over defining Islam…………….. and its various components, as the nation has inborn scholars and departments on the subject with extensive over view and horizon, and well mannered interpretations .