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Faceless Enemy

By Salman Mugsi • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

We really don’t know who our enemy is and from whom we have to target and from whom we have to save ourselves. Who is using whom against whom? No sane person could support the likes of Fazlullah and Baitullah Mehsud, but from where in the hell they have sprouted up all of a sudden.
Right [...]



BY The Way: Americans; they Own this Planet?

By A Khokar • Oct 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

A Lecture on Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a well-known political activist critical of U.S. foreign policy, traces modern-day American imperialism to its earliest roots, 25 years before the American Revolution. If it weren’t for British forces preventing [...]



The Third US Battle Ground: PAKISTAN

By A Khokar • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The US and its allies succeeded in toppling Taliban regime in November 2001 and replacing it with a puppet regime, but the Taliban were neither militarily defeated nor eliminated from the system. But for effective encirclement of Afghanistan from all directions and massive air support provided by USA, the Northern Alliance could not have made [...]



Euphoria

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 25th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Fiction. Euphoria is the story of a neglected child who grows up a wasted youth. An incident in the village makes him flee. On his journey he experiences life as it is and returns homes several years later entirely a different man.
‘PLUTTT..’ went the pebble in water as Baboo stared at [...]



Sane Reaction From Some US Congressmen on US Attacks in Pakistan

By Rohail Butt • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The Bush administration risks expanding the failed war in Afghanistan into Pakistan, says a US lawmaker while commenting on the US decision to conduct raids into Pakistani territory.
The question of sending US ground troops inside Pakistan seems to have become an
election issue in the United States where voters are scheduled to elect a new president [...]



I am Hurt…

By fzuberi • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

I feel hurt… I feel…injured…
If children…next door die…because of attack on my soil…in my COUNTRY…
by US marines…
AND my army….did not do anything..except condemning the attack…
My Army…my Air Force…My Navy…My own Defence force…
who take up more than 50% of the budget of my country…
If my people are dying…inside the borders…by another army..when innocent children, women & [...]



The “Rat People” of Pakistan

By Saleem Khan • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

You may have read a big news entitled “Rat people forced to beg on Pakistan’s streets“. It was a real shocker to read and, tells of the worst, beyond imaginable, child labour industry. There’s a children’s rights issue you may wish to look into which concerns a very extreme and horrifying form of [...]



Test of Asif Zardari’s Smile

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Sep 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Time to Act, Mr. President

By Talal Hussain Malik • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

A joke goes that a suicide bomber was going to hit his target. Just when he reached there he pushed the button of the bomb attached to his vest. The bomb did not blast because of some manufacturing fault but due to shock and a sense of being torn into pieces the suicide bomber fainted. [...]



‘A Strategy for Pakistan’

By A Khokar • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Daily Washington Post wrote an Editorial on 2 August 2008 under the caption; ‘A Strategy for Pakistan’ and says;The United States must support the new democratic government but also do what is needed to stop al-Qaeda.
To read more please Link; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080102880.html
In what ever way panel members on the Washington post editorial, portrays US [...]