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Posts Tagged ‘nwfp’

Nawaz Sharif in Gilgit-Baltistan

By Haris Hashmi • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, quaid Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) PML-N has at last mustered some courage and defying the King of Saudi Arabia. He is visiting, after a long ten years, Gilgit-Baltistan.
Lots has been said and written over the Nawaz Sharif’s inactivity on the national political horizon. He hasn’t gone to Sindh and Balochistan and [...]



Zardari, Sharif and Co. – The fleece that wouldn’t sell

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Yet another feast and this is NOT a feat. The nation wilts and tilts to a position where there is no return. The Army is locked up, beefed up and engaged from where it cannot step back but from whence it has to return victor, no second option. Until then the pawns have to be [...]



The Golden American Biscuits and SWAT - The Heaven of the Eternally Displaced Undead Souls. Eternally..??

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Let’s wander down the lanes of Kashmir which rocked to the tunes of the reverberating and scared mountains, whilst beneath them the earth was angered. Angered and filled with transgressions unpardonable.
Come October 8th and the fate of Kashmiris on this side was sealed away into ignoble and oblivious history. The 3 million displaced Pakistani Kashmiris, [...]



Solution to Balochistan Problem

By Shayan Khan • Aug 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Let me state it loud and clear, no one else has the right to solve the problems of Balochistan province of Pakistan except the people of Balochistan. Pakistan Army or Frontier Constabulary or Agencies don’t have to worry about solving the problems of Balochistan, they must be worrying about defending the borders of Balochistan.
On every [...]



APC on Balochistan

By Sher Ali • Aug 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Every Pakistani  is concerned over the situation in Pakistan’s largest and resources wise richest — but the most backward — province and wants its remedy as early as possible. News pouring in from this province is not refreshing and the frustration, agony and anger is rising.
Just compare Punjab and Balochistan in terms of everything, and [...]



Presidency Corridors are Trembling

By Farid Masood • Jul 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Presidency corridors have started trembling like Army Houses’ were before August 2008. I had mentioned on March 15 right before re-instatement of Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry that Mr Rehman Malik may not be able to stop long march with container wall around presidency & if marchers are able to reach there that would be final round [...]



The army needs trust

By Arun R. Zaheeruddin • May 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I hear people talk about the participation of Indian personnel in the Taliban ranks. Some say Russia is involved. My only question here is: who cares if the Taliban are Indians or Russians or even Japanese? Whoever they are, they are not good people, they are bad. The Pakistani army is the protagonist here, we need to support them.



Cock-a-hoop Americans and Sycophants at Home

By Rohail Butt • May 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

From John Kerry to Hillary Clinton and from Washington Post to New York Times, every color of American is slapping the back of Pakistan Army over the tenacious operation in the Malakand Agency and their chorus of ‘Do More, Do Better’ has grown louder more than ever.
Wild, resolute, brutal but lightly-armed medieval tribesmen joined by [...]



Challenges in Pakistani War on Terror

By Sher Ali • May 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

No doubt that the military operation Rah-e-Haq 4 has been going on with huge sucesss, there is also no denying that a gigantic human crisis is getting worst in the NWFP, as nearly 2 million people have become internally displaced people. While military leadership should focus on completing the opeation as soon as possible, the [...]



ANP in NWFP

By Asad Ghauri • May 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics

NWFP provincial govt mainly led by ANP wit PPP and JUI-F as coalition partners but main ruler is ANP in NWFP, here it must be consider that ANP is the only secular party in NWFP under which rule population of NWFP is badly demolished by terrorist or so called taliban(as these miscreant have nothing to [...]