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Posts Tagged ‘Kargil’

Jamat Ali Shah A Traitor of Pakistan?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jan 5th, 2012 • Category: Politics

Former chief of the Pakistan Commission on Indus Water, Syed Jamaat Ali Shah is being touted as the Mir Sadiq/Mir Jaffar of Modern era. His crime is that he provided a ample chance to the Indian government on Siachen by remaining silent during the period 2007-2009 and not raising any objection during Pak-Indian [...]



The Old Weeping

By Maria Sultan • Jun 25th, 2011 • Category: Worth A Second Look

The government of PPP tries to find every possible way to tease the top judiciary. They didn’t even spare the highly important national matters like the Abbottabad operation.
After the 1971 debacle, the Abbottabad attack is being termed as the biggest national disaster, even bigger than the Kargil and the GHQ Attack. That was followed quickly [...]



Mindset of Establishment

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jun 11th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

This misery is going on for the last 63 years since the independence of the Pakistan. The people of Pakistan are the lambs and chicken for the butchers in the security forces. Four Martial Laws and the debacles of 71, Siachin, Kargil, and then failures in war against terror and plethora of murders, tortures and  [...]



And Now Mr. Sharif Jumps on Right Wing Bandwagon

By D Asghar • May 27th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Mr. Sharif’s recent statement of implicating US in the PNS Mehran attack is a bit perplexing. Now PML N is supposedly the second largest political party of the nation. Not to mention, he is two time PM of this country. Who was once seen making a mad dash to New York to meet President Clinton, [...]



Nurturing Civil Military Relations

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • Jun 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistan is passing through one of the most sensitive periods of its history whereby the conventional threat on the eastern borders, at least temporarily, has given way to the endemic terrorist threat that has taken roots in the FATA Region; extending its tentacles to the heart of the hinterland. Army is the bulwark, that the [...]



India’s struggle to get Non-permanent seat in the UNSC

By Afshain Afzal • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Features

Political statements coming from the office of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are not very encouraging. Analysts have started a renewed debate on the future of Jammu & Kashmir state and seriously ponder if Kashmir is not an issue at all and mere related to Kashmiris’ grievance regarding governance and development. In fact India wants [...]



Real Life Drama in the Air (Remembering 12th October, 1999)

By Guest Blogger • Jul 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

October, 1999 Capt Sarwat of Pakistan International Airlines Airbus-300, an old buddy, and I had gone to Colombo, Sri Lanka for Airlanka Golf classic tournament. On the 10th October, after returning from the 18th hole (towards the finish of the game) that I saw General Pervez Musharraf (chief of Joint staff and Chief of the [...]



The Inheritance and Musharraf’s Clarification

By Rauf Amir • Mar 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


The Indian Hullabaloo

By Dr RazaHaider • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Though I don’t see a reasonable justification of this absurd issue of Mumbai fallacy, a factual security failure, but misbehaviors have found the dilemma to again, criticize and malign neighbors with all time intended theme thus expressing their feminine quality to make hue and cry.



Rashid Qureshi, Where is Merit in the Army Then?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Lt Gen (R) Jamshaid Gulzar Kiyani on the Geo TV programme ‘Meray Mutabiq’ has done some stunning revelation about the Pervez Musharraf, the retired general who became President of Pakistan in full uniform through a pack of lotas and turncoats, and wants to stick to the throne no matter how much mud is slung on [...]