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Posts Tagged ‘RAW’

Indo-Israeli Relations on a cross roads

By Afshain Afzal • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

India and Israel had been enjoying close secret cooperation since decades. The Indian stance during pre-partition times was anti-Israel due to aggression on Palestinian. All India Muslim League and other Indian political parties were much critical to US and Britain due conspiracy against Palestinian in which they helped Israel to illegal occupy Arab lands. During [...]



Hidden truth behind Mumbai attacks

By Afshain Afzal • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Politics

December 15, 2009, was probably the saddest day for Indian authorities, especially the Indian Military Intelligence (MI), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and a couple of other agencies who participated in Mumbai attacks drama to make it look real.
In the past, India had been blaming Pakistan for the Mumbai attacks. The cock [...]



Afghan Stability and India

By Dr. Huma Mir • Feb 13th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Gen Ashfaque Parvez Kayani’s recent comments where he described the Indian role in Afghanistan as “Unhelpful” summarises our national security concerns. Pakistan has been voicing for some time its serious apprehensions regarding Indian support to the terror outfits in Pakistan including Baluch separatists and Pakistani Taliban. Only last month Pakistani Intelligence unearthed a RAW hatched [...]



London Conference – Rushing for the Exit

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • Feb 10th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Those with interest in the military history would know that withdrawal in face of mounting enemy pressure is one of the most difficult operations to execute. The luxury to pack up and ‘run away to fight another day’ in face of a determined enemy who would like to drive home the advantage of his superiority [...]



The Decoy Pullout

By Afshain Afzal • Feb 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Indian Defence Minister AK Antony recently announced that pull out of 30,000 troops from occupied Jammu & Kashmir state. Although there are no signs of on ground move but a brigade of Indian agents have started infiltrating into Pakistani territories to harness fifth columnists to start their campaign. The people across the Line of Control [...]



India’s greatest folly, Indo-US nuclear agreement

By Afshain Afzal • Jan 25th, 2010 • Category: Politics

In a u-turn, US has changed its policy towards India. All of a sudden US has become friendly with India, presumably due to consensus of both the countries on a number of issues, especially eradicating fundamentalist Muslims from Pakistan and Afghanistan. In a joint effort, an attempt has been made to curtail nuclear capabilities of [...]



Car Bomb Blasts in Pakistan: Is Russia Involved Once Again?

By Maria Sultan • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I still remember the dark days of General Ziaul Haq, when first time the car bomb blasts in busy markets of the Pakistan became a routine. At that the Afghan intelligence agency Khad was carrying out those attacks with the backing of the USSR.
In Pakistan, once again the car bomb blasts have become a norm. [...]



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 [...]



Unstable Afghanistan – The India Factor

By Guest Blogger • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

It was the fall of Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001 that paved the way for foreign powers to intervene in Afghanistan to secure their strategic interests. The strategic location of Afghanistan provides a perfect conduit for extracting and channeling vast energy resources of Central Asia to their respective countries. However, the ingress made by [...]



Terrorism in Kabul, Peshawar & Pindi

By Guest Blogger • Oct 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

On the lines of recent successful talks between Afghan government and representatives of Taliban, US stared series of secret meetings with elements loyal to Taliban. White House officially announced on October 8, 2009 that the Taliban posed less of a threat to US security than Al-Qaida Moments later, militants carried out attack near the Indian [...]