Ich bin ein Tamil and Pustun. We are all Tamil and Pushtun today, back in 1960s American President J.F Kennedy chanted for the freedom of Berliners. We should show our humanitarian solidarity with the civilian victims of terrorism in Tamil and Pushtun areas.
The Top news story, across the global media, is the human suffering resulting [...]
Pakistani forces may eliminate Taliban from Malakand Agency or just confine them to their mountains, but if Karachi erupts in full blown violence, it would be very hard to control. Violence in Malakand Agency just affects that area, but if Karachi gets violent, the whole economy of Pakistan fells to its knees.
Taliban are surely an [...]
MQM gave a routine bloodbath to Karachi once again and the death toll has crossed the 50 mark, as expected the coordination committee of MQM shed some crocodile tears and has accused the officials of Karachi administration that they are trying to implicate the innocent MQM in the recent Karachi violent clashes.
In the name of [...]
The canning of the 17-year old girl in the Swat by the Taliban is extremely disturbing event. The way the girl was manhandled by the Talibs and and the way male spectators watched minute long spanking of the girl is highly condemnable. Where was the court, Qazi and where were the 4 witnesses?
That is not [...]
As America is poised to change itself under the new and dynamic leadership of Barack H. Obama, the only superpower should also understand that they cannot change themselves in the vacuum. Already people are questioning the rationale behind the closing down of Gitmo bay and barring CIA from having interrogation cells abroad.
Though these measures are [...]
Observing current relative tranquility in the country its difficult to imagine how Pakistan seemed to be in critical condition just a few months back. For example, on January 14, 2008, my friend Ruth Dominguez, who authored this report, and I attended a gathering in Washington’s centrist think tank names New America Foundation (NAF). The [...]
Pakistan is burning for the last few years in particular Pakhtoon belt. Not a single day passes with out any bomb blast, suicide attack, rocket firing & hand grenade being blasted or thrown on security forces.
There are many aspects to the recent blood shed in our beloved country but the US attacks on Bajur’s seminary [...]
