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Posts Tagged ‘Pak military’

While Military awaits the orders from Supreme Courts

By A Khokar • Feb 7th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

There has never been the time that military in Pakistan ever came in power at its own for the heck of it. It was always there on the demand of public and the politicians of the time; when they felt that a group in power has crossed all the limits of their corruption and nepotism. [...]



A Long walk back home

By A Khokar • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Features

Like Qaid e Azam M A Jinnah as founding father of Pakistan, in Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk an Ottoman and Turkish army officer is the founding father of modern Turkey. As a revolutionary founder of Republic of Turkey he after defeating the allied forces gained remarkable successes in military campaigns to secure independence for Turkey. [...]



Is No Cowing in Fear; still an Option

By A Khokar • Jul 10th, 2010 • Category: Features

By A Khokar    July 9, 2010
 
Terrorism is an evil in itself, which reverberates with the sense of fear it generates among its victims by any sudden blow of a dreadful covert operation under taken by some ruthless coward assailants to fulfil their vested interests. They carry out their attacks against the soft public prime targets [...]



There is Sure a Silver Lining on the Horizon

By A Khokar • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan was created on the bases of two nation’s theory to secure a separate ideological homeland for Muslims in the Indian subcontinent. But soon after the inception of Pakistan, this nation  plunged into a deluge of turmoil that its two founding fathers Muhammad Ali Jinnah; the Qaid e Azam and PM Liaqat Ali Khan; their [...]



Quetta Attack Plan

By A Khokar • Dec 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak?
U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for a security force ratio of 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every [...]