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Posts Tagged ‘Quetta Shura’

Where Pakistan-America Relations are Heading?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 5th, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Policy makers in Pakistan are burning the midnight oil these days pondering over the recent developments or degradations for that matter regarding the Pakistan-USA relationship, and where they are heading. That’s not an easy ask, because there are so many gray areas and these relations are intertwined in a complex fashion, coupled with inevitable dependencies, [...]



America Uniting with Taliban to Punish Pakistan

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Dec 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

The injured and angry snake is the most dangerous specie on this planet. The lethal, deadly, frustrated, defeated and checkmated United States in Afghanistan is blaming Pakistan for it’s miserable retreat and cornered situation. Even after the Bin Laden’s death, America is nowhere near any tangible success. It fails to accept the Afghan attack blunder [...]



Maximum America Can to do Pakistan Is…..

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

United States would wage the last war against Pakistan in the world. They don’t want to start a full blown war in Pakistan as that would mean an open warfare with many other Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Indonesia and many others including Turkey and Iran, and this would spread.
Fairly, they don’t need to [...]



Taliban Terrorists on the Run

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Faisalabad, Mandi Bahahuddin, Karak and D.I Khan have seen some failed attempts at igniting sectarian violence and some successful attempts at terrorism, but the evil elements have failed to convert these distributed attacks and attempts into a coherent chain of terrorism to cripple the country.
Suicide attacks have more or less disappeared from NWFP and Punjab [...]



Karachi : New Nest of Taliban?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Instead of refuting angrily the claims made by the US newspapers that the Afghan Shura of Taliban, which shifted from Kandhar to Quetta in 2001 as the US invaded Afghanistan, has now moved to the Karachi. A port city which is the economic lifeline of Pakistan and which is calm and at rest for the [...]



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 [...]



The Myth of Quetta Shura

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

As the US and NATO leadership struggle to find a way out of the Afghan quicksand, amid a growing concern caused by the mounting casualties and enhancing strength of Afghan resistance, the US rhetoric seems to be getting focused on the city of Quetta. According to US assessment, the city houses the top echelon of [...]



Quetta Drone Attacks

By Rohail Butt • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It seems that after finding nothing in Afghanistan and in the tribal region of Pakistan, United States wants to spill more blood in Quetta. Due to American presence in Afghanistan and it’s drone attacks in the FATA, Pakistan, and it’s huge presence and interference in Pakistan has destabilized the country, and NWFP is at war.
Not [...]



Quetta Shura - another figment of imagination.

By Muhammad Ahsan Malick • Oct 9th, 2009 • Category: Features

The myth of Quetta shura has been on a verge of its hype in the horizon of Pakistan U.S relations yet again, previously it was Karzai in 2006 who was claiming it and now “master” himself has shown same alarming concerns, U.S is looking beyond Afghanistan for the reasons and excuses for her massive strategic [...]



Kerry-Lugar Will Decide the Promotions of Military Top Men?

By Salman Mugsi • Oct 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The Kerry-Lugar bill, the fruit which our president is bringing back home is yet another example of how fawning our leaders are, and why there is no respect for the Pakistanis abroad. We shouldn’t be complaining about the second degree treatment we get overseas and we must not whine when we are treated like criminals [...]