It has now become routine for the US to focus on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons whenever there is trouble within the country. Clearly, the US has not recovered from its trauma of seeing a developing Muslim state acquire nuclear capability. Moreover, as one of the greatest proliferators since 1945 to Israel, the US has always maintained [...]
It’s good to see that the Pakistan Army is not giving relaxation to the terrorists this time and they are operating in the emarald valley with full vigor. In retaliation, the terrorists continue to target security personnel, attack government installations and private property and kill innocent people in the province and the tribal region.
NWFP government [...]
The impression that the Pakistan Army is incapable of fighting Taliban is extremely false and misleading and a far cry from the truth. Operations in the tribal agencies and also in some areas of Malakand Agency has shown that Pakistan military is fully equipped to blast the enemy of Taliban away. Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) [...]
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 [...]
Hysteria, intolerance and ignorance are certainly not solely the hallmark of the Taliban, as I discovered last week when I defended the actual Nizam-e-Adl Regulation on television in terms of its content. Immediately, choice abuses – ranging from comments about by girth to the need for me to seek employment in Swat – were unleashed [...]
The Nizam-e-Adl Regulation (NAR) 2009 envisages no role whatsoever for the Taliban or the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) in the running of the new justice system introduced there.
Contrary to the general perception that Swat has been surrendered to the Taliban and different sects of the religion and minorities would be at the receiving end under the new [...]
