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Posts Tagged ‘Nato’

What will be the result of Qatar peace negotiation?

By Malik Achakzai • Jan 28th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

Afghan Taliban are always black mailed by the Pakistani authorities, they are used as a tool of disturbance in Afghanistan since 1996 till now.
Afghan president Mr. Hamid Karzai in his briefing to media told that, “I am knowing the feelings of Afghan Taliban ready for peace negotiation with us, but they aren’t allowed since Pakistani [...]



America Halted Drone Attacks to Support Taliban

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 10th, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There has been undeclared understanding between the Pakistan and the United States of America regarding the drone attacks in the tribal region of the Pakistan. Pakistan do have serious reservation about the collateral damage of these drone strikes, but the truth is that many many Al Qaeda terrorists among the TTP terrorists have been eliminated [...]



What is Next in Afghanistan

By Afshain Afzal • Jan 8th, 2012 • Category: Politics

As per the latest reports, Washington has planned a conclusive round of talks with the Taliban during this month or early next month. To make a conducive atmosphere, western sponsored media has started leaking reports that US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed the name of Amir-ul- Momineen, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar from [...]



Controlling Inflation in Pakistan

By Shaukat Masood Zafar • Jan 6th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story

Present Pakistan People’s Party Government has totally failed to control inflation. The cost of the ever worsening problem is constantly being paid by the people of Pakistan without any iota of respite. People are facing unprecedented high inflation together with high unemployment, a decline in Growth Rate and decreased currency value, and high food and [...]



Where Pakistan-America Relations are Heading?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 5th, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Policy makers in Pakistan are burning the midnight oil these days pondering over the recent developments or degradations for that matter regarding the Pakistan-USA relationship, and where they are heading. That’s not an easy ask, because there are so many gray areas and these relations are intertwined in a complex fashion, coupled with inevitable dependencies, [...]



Indian Administration in Afghanistan

By Adnan Arshad Mansoori • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Whatever Indian, American, or even Brits Participants tried to paint their own or very specific Indian Role at Afghanistan as if such Role is very much appreciated at Afghanistan moreover this role is very remarkable over-there.
According to reliable sources Americans and Indians were welcome at Northern Afghanistan tentatively 5 to 6% of Local Population although [...]



A Long walk back home

By A Khokar • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Features

Like Qaid e Azam M A Jinnah as founding father of Pakistan, in Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk an Ottoman and Turkish army officer is the founding father of modern Turkey. As a revolutionary founder of Republic of Turkey he after defeating the allied forces gained remarkable successes in military campaigns to secure independence for Turkey. [...]



Notions of Strategic Depth

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Drone and suicide bomber are the new facets of contemporary warfare; representing the concepts of ‘bomb without man’ and ‘man as a bomb’. Moreover, all nuclear states have a tendency to indulge in proxy wars through non-state actors and third party state actors. These warfare related innovations have altered the conventional time space calculus; thus [...]



Hung and Compromised Pakistan; Establishment Wins

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Dec 28th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaafs miraculous insurgency reminds me of the sudden rising of Islami Jumhori Ittehad (IJI) with 9 stars in the early nineties. Nation was crazy for the IJI and that political alliance swept the country thunderously from one corner to the other. Later we learned that ISI was the mastermind, executor, fundraiser, and custodian of [...]



Government and Army Chief on Memogate Scandal

By Shaukat Masood Zafar • Dec 28th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The people of Pakistan are fed up with Zardari led PPP Government and want it out of office.  Not only opposition is on the streets but the people within the government are fed up too.  With few exceptions of corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, middle and lower level government servants the entire nation is cursing Asif Ali [...]