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Posts Tagged ‘Malakand Agency’

Return of Heroes : Salute to IDPs

By Maria Sultan • Jul 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There are many ills and evils in our society. Our country is the most corrupt in the Asia just after Afghanistan, our lawless neighbor. It goes without saying that many of our leaders are corrupt and morally deficient. They cannot set an example because they themselves know no better. But when one sees the magnitude [...]



Haji Betani and Qari Zainuddin : Should We Promote Them ?

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It goes without saying that the army action in the Malakand Division was necessary to stop the slaughtering of innocent people, the desecration of dead bodies and the blowing up of mosques and schools. These are unspeakable crimes and those who committed them must be brought to justice.
It also goes without saying that army action [...]



Zero Tolerance for Taliban

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jun 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Now Taliban are running towards the mountains of the Swat and up to the rough terrain of the Mohmand and Bajaur and Waziristan. Some of them who are trapped in the Mingora city are putting up street fight and they have got the advantage of the human shield. But many have already fled upwards.
This time [...]



Pervez Musharraf is not Pakistan Army

By Rohail Butt • May 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Musharraf has gone and gone for good. Pakistan Army stays here. Musharraf doesn’t define or represent this institution of Pakistan. Now after the departure of the Musharraf, people have understood very clearly and vividly that they never hated their army, they always abhorred the evil Musharraf.
Musharraf damaged literally every institution and foundation of this country [...]



Swat’s Solution is in Kashmir

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • May 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the recent visit to the United States, President Asif Ali Zardari has presented a dossier to the American officials, prepared by the ISI. This dossier contains pictoral and irrefutable evidences regarding the pure Indian and Russian involvement in the insurgency in the FATA and Swat areas of Pakistan.
Russia is in the background while India [...]



What Imran Khan Wants?

By Gul Raiz • May 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

I still firmly believe that Imran Khan cannot win a election of National Assembly anywhere from the Pakistan, unless PPP or PML(N) supports him. Imran Khan’s politics, which is very nascent and fledgling is rampant on the Pakistan T.V talk shows. Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, the head of Awami Muslim League and Imran Khan, the honcho [...]



Why Must Taliban Remain Shrouded in Mystery?

By A Khokar • May 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

As per the demand of Pak Army operation ‘Rah e Rast-4′,— millions have been asked to vacate their homes in Swatt–Malakand in view of their safety so that subject operational areas are cleansed of savage Taliban effectively. But this evacuation has resulted in an exodus of a worst kind and there is a dire need that [...]



History repeats itself — at great cost to our nation

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • May 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The Americans have finally got what they wanted thanks to the pusillanimity of our leadership - both civil and military – and all for the sake of temporary-relief dollars, five helicopters and a few other expensive military toys which we should not need since we have a nuclear deterrence in place at the strategic level. [...]



America, Our Un-reliable Hercules

By Haris Hashmi • May 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics

I read somewhere, in the fifth labor of Hercules, an arrogant king tries to demean the hero by hiring him to clean out the Augean stables in a day. The stables containing the largest herd of cattle in civilization, had never been cleaned. Hercules, with a little help from Athena, changes the path of two [...]



Darul Qaza Not Going to Bring Peace in Malakand

By Salman Mugsi • May 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

The hypocrisy, lies and the double standards of the Taliban are crystal clear now. It’s clear as broad daylight that these armed terrorists weren’t really struggling for the implemenation of Shariah courts and Nizam-e-Adl in the Swat, but rather their ambitions are different and they don’t peace. They also don’t accept the Pakistan and the [...]