The more one hears the discussion among American Democrats about the war in Afghanistan, the more one feels that it is a serious handicap that Barrack Obama has no personal experience of international relations or of foreign policy or military service, beyond such experience as one gains as a first-term U.S. senator.
His vice president, Joe [...]
“Taliban Are Winning: U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Rising Casualties.” Thus ran the startling headline on the front-page of The Wall Street Journal. The lead paragraph ran thus:
“The Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, the top American commander there said, forcing the U.S. to change its strategy in the eight-year-old conflict by [...]
The election of Barak Hussein Obama, the first Black President of United States of America, has started interesting debates all over the world. In Britain the search is on, for a “first Asian or Muslim prime minister”, although all the indicators and the analysis of the political hierarchy tells us that it might be another [...]
Presently Pakistan is now a nation caught up between its Army and the Taliban, fighting a war— not of its own making. Its population lives in continuous fear of bombings and suicide attacks - the next one could be at the local mosque, an Internet cafe, or a roadside restaurant. Most Pakistanis are now resigned [...]
The Buzzwords stinks. Time to come to basics now. Hassan Nisar rightly pointed out in his interview with Dr. Shahid Masood that all they knew are 400 to 500 sentences and if we snatch these sentences out of their mouth these so called politicians couldn’t speak anymore. Why not to guess the governments through Buzzwords? Like to begin with
President Obama ! we heard so much from you over the issue of image of America world wide and your keen desire to bring a change in world perception towards United States is also appreciable.
But Mr President ! The larger chunk of anger over your country is based on your limitless support of illegitimate state [...]
While President Asif Ali Zardari departs for America, the northern area of Pakistan is yet again coming in the grip of ‘Anti- Pakistan elements’ (APES). The recent smart move of Pak government in Malakand division to re-establish Nizam e adil has although taken the air out of Tehrik e Taliban’s balloon and it seems that the calculated [...]
One of the great scholar and political maestro of this country Imran Khan is again in the field and his continuous support for lawyers movement and true democracy in this country give him an exalted position among others and made him an ideal leader to lead this Nation to set it on the right path.
After [...]
As America is retreating( so called surge is basically asking for fig leaf before the exit as in Iraq) , there is tremendous amount of churning going on in Afghanistan. This was evident to everyone for sometime .When President Karzai desperately wanted Mullah Omar to accept his offer of safe passage was the first sign [...]
A few weeks before the US elections, I was pessimist and skeptical of an Obama victory. Yesterday as he took his oath, all I could say was that this could only happen in the USA. Obama’s victory is a testimony to the American dream. Just fifty years ago, blacks were persecuted, murdered and faced intense [...]
