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Posts Tagged ‘Operation Siraat-e-Mustakeem’

Sovereignty is Commanded Not Demanded

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Sep 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

A day after talks between Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and the US Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Admiral Michael Mullen, strange voices are emitting from the mouths of the Pakistan People’s Part. The defense minister Ahmad Mukhtar feigns total ignorance about any attacks of United States, and on press says that US [...]



How Could We Trust Mullen ???

By Sameer Shaharyar • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

It’s hard and even impossible to imagine that top US military commander Admiral Mike Mullen is in Pakistan to show remorse over the loss of life and property in the Pakistan which resulted due to the United States attack on the Pakistani territory, and it’s also hard to imagine that Mullen would not do it [...]



Welcome Retaliation and Sad Recoil

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

On Sunday night, Pakistan border soldiers fired on a raiding party of American commandos emerging from two Chinooks in an attempt to cross on foot from Afghanistan into the Pakistan village of Angoor Adda. They had no permission to be there. This was the latest in a series of forays into Pakistan sovereign territory taken [...]



Osama Bin Laden to pop up in ‘October Surprise’ ?

By A Khokar • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It is reported that the United States has escalated its war against Al Qaeda and its Taliban allies by “deploying Predator aircraft equipped with sophisticated new surveillance systems that were instrumental in crippling the insurgency in Iraq.”
It’s a story whose significance may extend well beyond the benighted hills and valleys of Pakistan’s violent Pashtun hinterlands [...]



Pakistan is 6 Miles Long for US

By Sameer Shaharyar • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

American media is extolling that Pakistan has agreed to allow United States troops to act in the Pakistani area within the six miles from the Durand Line. That, and it is being trumpeted on high brass that Adm. Mullen has already notified to the Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, when both met [...]



Support Our Troops in FATA

By Muskan Hina • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The seven agencies of the tribal region have become fireballs and our country is passing through one of the toughest times, and our military is showing it’s finest moment. It not only is keeping the world powers at arm’s length but also giving practical warnings to the ever-ready-to-attack India, while it tries to eliminate the [...]



FATA : Top Most Issue of Pakistan

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan is being drilled down from the North West, and the enemy is making headway from there pretty fast, and the defenses are melting down steadily, while the government doesn’t have the clue for their life as what to do, to whom to do and where to do.
In the name of Operation Siraat-e-Mustakeem, raids are [...]