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Posts Tagged ‘Seymour Hersh’

Seymour Hersh’s Nuggets of Naiveté

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • Nov 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The angry reaction in Pakistan to Seymour Hersh’s article in the New Yorker, once viewed in the context of its ludicrous contents, seems justifiable. The long winded report (7000 words approx) is based on unnamed sources, its contents stand repudiated by government officials in Pakistan and US and the hypotheses it outlines don’t even pass [...]



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 [...]