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Posts Tagged ‘Operation Waziristan’

Loosing Lives to Terrorists

By Altaf Khan • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The news about the terrorism has been pushed back in the news bulletin and their mention in the newspapers has also been restricted. The gore and the alarm is still there. The war is  on. Waziristan operation is critical to the fight against terrorism in Pakistan.
We are not invaders of North of centuries ago. This [...]



Power Intoxication : Basic Reason of Terrorism

By Maria Sultan • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

We have got to clear the misconception that the terrorists hailing from the South Waziristan were involved in Afghan Jihad. The terrorists mainly comprise of Uzbeks and the Mehsuds. These ara vagabonds, criminals and power hungry people, who are fighting for the power.
The time has come, when the terrorism has to perish. Operation in the [...]



Kotkai, A Start in Operation Rah e Nijat

By Sher Ali • Oct 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Abdul Samad Khan, 65, a farmer from the Spinkai Raghzai area, a freshly-turned IDP in the gritty town of Dera Ismail Khan says, “Fight hard, fight strong Pakistan. This is where the real war on terror is waged. I hope you throw down with serious might upon those who have bombed your civilians.”
The [...]



Un-easy Calm riddled with Ambiguities

By ahsan • Oct 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Daily `Times’ published a report on September 4, 2009 about President Asif Ali Zardari’s  assurance to British Prime Minster Gordon Brown that Pakistani forces would carry out an operation against the Taliban in South Waziristan that would be  supported by the Britain, as the same Taliban group is posing serious threat to the UK as [...]



Operation in Waziristan Will Never End

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

If history is any guide and if we really get to know the ground realities in the Waziristan area, then it is bright as daylight that no military operation until and unless backedup by the rain of daisy cutters, dirty bombs, or even nukes could succeed in the FATA, especially in the South and North [...]