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Posts Tagged ‘South Waziristan’

Timeline of American Aggression in Pakistan

By Ali Suleman • Nov 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

§ 1 January 2011: US drones launched 3 separate strikes killing 18 civilians. No reaction from Pak military, political leadership.
§ 7 January 2011: According to anonymous Pakistani officials, a USA drone strike in North Waziristan killed at least 4 civilians. No reaction from Pak military, political leadership.
§ 12 January 2011: US drones fired 4 missile [...]



Strategic Partnership: Pakistan Must be Helped

By Guest Blogger • Apr 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistan’s successful counter-insurgency operations in Swat, South Waziristan and throughout the country has set a major paradigm shift in US-Pakistan relations - from suspicion and mistrust to craving for a strategic partnership that will broaden the range of issues on which cooperation is possible. Due to its strategic location, Pakistan was drawn into the US-led [...]



War is Peace

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

George Orwell’s novel “1984″ described a world where ‘war is peace’, ‘freedom is slavery’ and ‘big brother is watching you’. These Orwellian words truly depict our totalitarian world of today.
When confronted with the dismal record of occupations and interventions, the common gung-ho American refrain nowadays is that history is for losers and that history never [...]



Where are They?

By Maria Sultan • Nov 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In morning, as the next day starts, the people of Pakistan morbidly wait for any news of suicide attack in any part of the country. The people of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore feel it more gravely. But the people of Peshawar take it for granted that they could be the next target.
It is said that [...]



Social Development Projects in Waziristan

By Anwar Jalal • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

During his recent visit (14 Nov) to  South Waziristan  Chief of Staff General Ashfaq Kayani  has announced  that social developmental projects  be  undertaken  for  the welfare of common people  in the  area  under  Army supervision. This is really a  great news. It is well known that one of the main cause of Waziristan being abode [...]



We Are Having Daily 9/11

By Maria Sultan • Oct 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics

The Pakistani journalist was right when she blurted out in the face of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “You had one 9/11. We are having daily 9/11s in Pakistan.” Clinton must have felt at least some inkling to her conscience that there is a blood-spilling going on in the region which she just have [...]



I Repeat: Drop Atom Bomb on South Waziristan

By Gul Raiz • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The heart-breaking spectacles from the Peshawar are enough to rip apart the heart. The death toll of the blast occurred in Meena Bazar Peshawar has climbed to 89, hospital sources said. More then 200 people injured in the blast. Another victim of terrorist attack in Islamic University Islamabad died in hospital today.
The terrorists are [...]



Un-easy Calm riddled with Ambiguities

By ahsan • Oct 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Daily `Times’ published a report on September 4, 2009 about President Asif Ali Zardari’s  assurance to British Prime Minster Gordon Brown that Pakistani forces would carry out an operation against the Taliban in South Waziristan that would be  supported by the Britain, as the same Taliban group is posing serious threat to the UK as [...]



Operation in Waziristan Will Never End

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

If history is any guide and if we really get to know the ground realities in the Waziristan area, then it is bright as daylight that no military operation until and unless backedup by the rain of daisy cutters, dirty bombs, or even nukes could succeed in the FATA, especially in the South and North [...]



And Then They Came For Me

By A Khokar • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Features

So; here we are; our brethren from and across the Khyber -Hindukush ranges are again gathering momentum by joining hands with enemies of Pakistan by carrying out their subversive activities to destabilize us and are all out to eventually take over this land of our dreams by deceit and their chicanery. The intensive bomb blast [...]