The Pakistani Spectator

When the frightening attack was carried out at the Marriott Hotel Islamabad, the whole nation became numb and then a wave of anger swept through the country, and everybody asked for immediate action and a unified strategy and something to be done on the war footings.
What we got was a smelling spectacle of incompetency and [...]

One must appreciate the Sara Hashwani, the daughter of the owner of Marriott Hotel-turned-rubble Sadaruddin Hashwani, who has not only paid homage to the dead and injured employees of the Marriott Hotel, she also vowed to rebuild the hotel in record time to show defiance in the face of terrorism.
The gory attack on the symbol [...]

The pattern of the Marriott Hotel suicide bombing in Islamabad suggests the possible involvement of the Harkatul Jehadul Islami (HUJI), led by Qari Saifullah Akhtar, and not the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), headed by Baitullah Mehsud, which was held responsible for most recent suicide bombings across Pakistan.
According to intelligence circles in Islamabad, which are probing the [...]

Some new creeps have emerged out of nowhere brandishing their version of the doctrines and they have started from the Marriott suicide attack, which has jolted the world and has given new meaning to the war on terror, and have left no confusion in the minds of people that we are at war after all.
A [...]

When the barbaric attack happened on the Marriott Hotel Islamabad, the rulers of this poor country were having a lavish ball in the President House, where the whole of leadership was enjoying the expensive meal in thousands of lights with no worries in the world. They were supposed to be in Marriott Hotel at that [...]

While Marriot at Islamabad was engulfed in flames; I was sitting thousands of miles away from my home land– Pakistan and watching this horrific scenes on TV. Saddened and bemused; I remembered an old man, who belonged to an aristocrat German family. Prior to World War II, he owned a number of industries and estates.
It [...]

Another barbaric act thrust upon poor citizens of Pakistan…People with their lives lost, injuries, and families in grief…
The whole psychological profile of us as a nation has been changed in past 9 years gradually. US government has to protect their interest and for that they will go to any lengths, whether to [...]

Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik, while talking to media, revealed that his ministry had received two days ago information regarding suicide attack on the Parliament House at the time of the president’s address. The security of the capital was beefed up and the surroundings of the Parliament House were declared as [...]

The horrendous attack on the Marriott Hotel Islamabad which resulted in massive death and loss is being termed as the 9/11 of Pakistan. First, it’s not the race of which blast and attack is more deadly and which is not, and secondly there have been more deadly and wide-scale attacks in Pakistan in different cities.
Just [...]