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Posts Tagged ‘Pak army’

This Defiance May Get You Killed

By A Khokar • Dec 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In recent past numbers of Pakistani leaders were killed and we do see that certain political parties and their affiliates tend to keep them placed on very high pedestals as they all died in the best cause and services of Pakistan but sadly this may not be true. So let’s try to see them in [...]



CIA lured in NATO forces to attack Pakistani posts

By A Khokar • Dec 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

There are latest reports that TTP hirelings are being heavily armed and paid by CIA and made to infiltrate in Pakistan from Afghanistan. They are assigned with the tasks to fire back especially by mortars fire on different borders villages from inside Pakistan to instigate the military clashes on the border.
Recently civilian causalities have also [...]



What Next: There is a wide spread anarchy lurking

By A Khokar • Aug 27th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

There is no doubt that since the date TTP started with its subversive activities in Pakistan; the other religious and under surface militant groups also picked up their memento and with a short period of time; the extremism has engulfed the entire country. There is a wide spread lawlessness and chaos all over. Although presently; [...]



Musharraf May Best Serve Pakistan as a Visionary

By A Khokar • May 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After 9/11 Musharraf is known to have taken a unique ‘U turn’ in respect of age old Pakistani policy about Taliban in Afghanistan. This act of his even today has not sat well in the people’s minds that whether, under the circumstances Musharraf did so, in the best interests of Pakistan or otherwise. In his [...]



India is Poised to Take over Af-Pak War Theatre

By A Khokar • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Once again the US divisive rhetoric of ‘Quetta shura’ is in spin which indicates that US is now all out to push her Afghanistan war inside Pakistan. Pak government has expressed its ‘surprise’ at the latest volatile interview of US Ambassador Anne W Patterson and said that there was clearly a “huge disconnect” between Washington [...]



Cut that Last Tree Branch where they Perch to Alight

By A Khokar • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The war on terror declared by USA after the incident of 9/11 was ultimately brought to our western borders under the pretext that US lead NATO forces were fighting Al Qaeda and were chasing this stateless organisation declared as enemy by United States that it was allegedly using the god forsaken territory of FATA in [...]



Will US let Pak Army be crowned for Victory in Waziristan?

By A Khokar • Nov 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After incident of 911, US declared an all out war against terror in our region against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. There was the time when  war was seen drawing nearer to our western borders that Al Qaeda was allegedly using our FATA territory as their sanctuaries. Reportedly Al Qaeda was carrying out their subversive activities [...]



Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People

By A Khokar • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There has always been in American foreign policy circles, a virus called ‘arrogance’, caused by the hereditary assumption that Americans know better than others. Surprisingly, this does not always prove the case, but the condition seems highly resistant to treatment, even by experience.
There seems a high probability that the disease has struck Obama administration policy [...]



And Then They Came For Me

By A Khokar • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Features

So; here we are; our brethren from and across the Khyber -Hindukush ranges are again gathering momentum by joining hands with enemies of Pakistan by carrying out their subversive activities to destabilize us and are all out to eventually take over this land of our dreams by deceit and their chicanery. The intensive bomb blast [...]



Clash Of The Titans

By Muhammad Ali Sajjad • Aug 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Author’s note: It was the post By Maria Sultan on Aug 17th, 2009 under the title “7000 American Marines in Islamabad ???” that prompted me to write this article.
Where It All Began And The Previous Attempts:
Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities has always been a cause of major concern for the Western countries, particularly the USA. And there have [...]