With every war is attached an imminent humanitarian crisis and the Malakand War is no exception. More than a million people have fled their homes and they are unable to get any refuge. The thought of leaving home without taking anything along except a few items of utmost importance is terrible to contemplate. There are [...]
Hundreds of thousands of people are migrating from the war-torn areas of Buner, Swat, Dir and Shangla and camps have been established for these people in the areas of Jalala area of Mardan, in Swabi and in the Nowshera. 40,000 people have migrated from the Lower Dir area and thousands of people are daily spilling [...]
War has totally shifted from the tribal regions of Pakistan to the Swat and its adjacent areas. United States is satisfied that now Taliban are more interested in fighting against weak Pakistani government instead of launching their attacks in the Afghanistan on the US and NATO forces.
Steadily, war is spreading in the settled areas of [...]
Over 600 Pakistani civilians have died this year in suicide bombings carried out by the terrorists in FATA/Swat and the Drone Attacks carried out by the United States and by the militants in Balochistan who are backed and funded by India.
The only people who are being killed and harmed are the Pakistanis. They are being [...]
Just 3500 Taliban are present in the Swat. Just that many. Very few of them are local. Many have come from Afghanistan, Dir, Bajaur and heavy majority belongs to the Punjab, especially Southern Punjab who joined Swati Taliban after the cleric of Lal Masjid was killed in the Lal Masjid, who belonged to Souther Punjab.
These [...]
These days I am more likely to be curt and argumentative, have little time for anything and anybody outside the narrow yet broad, paradoxically, confines of what would become of my country. I am Muslim and I am Pakistani and I am proud of it, but there is little reason to celebrate this fact in [...]
Why, I ask Why? Why we are so weak and meek that a bunch of armed extremists made our security forces and our state machinery and the justice system bow in front of their desire? Why is it that we have acquisced to the whims of the Taliban in the Swat and have parted with [...]
So Senator Kerry has come to do the usual doublespeak to the Pakistani people through its already confused leadership! Like the other US leaders before him, his understanding of Pakistan ran skin deep at best as he tried to justify the drones by declaring that terrorism existed in Pakistan before these attacks. Oh what a [...]
The shrine of mystic poet Rahman Baba was blown up by suspected militants and the people of the area were warned of not visiting the shrine to pay the homage. Bomb blasts, suicide attacks, shelling, rocket firing, kidnapping and encounters have become routine in many cities of NWFP from Kohat, Peshawar, Mingora, Charsadda, Shabqadar, Mardan [...]
