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Posts Tagged ‘Mangal Bagh’

Why Don’t They Cut Hands of Foreign Masters?

By Maria Sultan • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

We are fedup of the statements rattled down by the likes of Interior Minister Rehman Malik that the Taliban are rented assassins and they are killing the Pakistanis on the orders of their foreign masters. He has even stopped reaching out to the victims of the suicide attacks, but hasn’t stopped dishing out empty statements.
We [...]



Feverish FATA on Placebo

By Dr RazaHaider • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Up till now it is as clear as truth that the composite actions in conductivity, are the typical acts of subversions recipes, as practiced by Indian RAW. Bridges, schools, shelters, offices, resorts and pumps and any thing that may distort economy and move and reversion to peace, is almost destroyed.



Crisis Management in Swat

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Taliban who rose from the ashes of Afghan war now pose some very serious and alarming threat to the Pakistan. The Taliban gave up the peaceful struggle for enforcement of Shariah that was being waged earlier by Maulana Sufi Mohammad’s black-turbaned Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-i-Mohammadi (TNSM) and resorted to the use of force to accomplish their [...]



Sinister Situation in Swat

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics

While rest of the Pakistan remains detached, a mini-scale full blown war is being fought by security forces in the Swat area, which is a settled area of one of only four provinces of Pakistan.
Things suddenly turned hot when Talibans blew an armoured vehicle, PTDC Hotel at Malamjabba and Army rest House, while girls school [...]



Don’t Cower in Front of Coward Terrorism

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Quaid-e-Azam said to the British governor of the FATA upon skirmish from Afghanistan in the tribal region, “Tell them in the language of guns and bullets that Pakistan is going to live forever. ” These words needs to be the crescendo of every citizen of Pakistan in the face of coward terrorism.
It’s true that inferno-like [...]



Winding Up Iraq : Coming In to FATA

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Pentagon has decided to pack up in the Iraq and focus solely in the Afghanistan, and the US media has already started backing up the new plans of the US military. They are now projecting the notion that Al-Qaeda’s operatives are making a underground railroad from Iraq to the Pakistanis areas of FATA to wage [...]



War On Terror - Part 2: Political Parties and Media

By Mudassar Jawad • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In Part 1 of this article, I talked about public support in Pakistan for our role in “war on terror” and gave reasons for which Pakistanis – in general – do not confirm Pakistan’s role in this war. Today, I will talk about our Political forces and role of our media and its support to [...]



The Way Forward

By Muskan Hina • Oct 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

No matter how many Friends of Pakistan, our beggar rulers manage to accumulate under the roof over the years, and no matter how many billion dollars they manage to receive in alms, even the $700 billion in bailout would be like drops in the desert for the Pakistani economy.
Never a beggar becomes independent and financial [...]



Terrorist Won : Islamabad Becomes Non Family Station

By Muskan Hina • Oct 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Well, the terrorist all across the tribal belt and elsewhere must be patting themselves on the back while having a ball out there as the United Nations and other foreign missions and embassies windup their businesses and affairs in the country and cutting down on the personnel while calling back the families from Pakistan.
One [...]



Spiral Downward

By Salman Mugsi • Oct 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

US President George W. Bush has met with the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan, with 2008 already the bloodiest year for international troops in the war-torn country since the 2001 invasion. Both men have said that their war in Afghanistan is spiraling downwards due to the support to Taliban from across [...]