The Pakistani Spectator

Let’s wander down the lanes of Kashmir which rocked to the tunes of the reverberating and scared mountains, whilst beneath them the earth was angered. Angered and filled with transgressions unpardonable.
Come October 8th and the fate of Kashmiris on this side was sealed away into ignoble and oblivious history. The 3 million displaced Pakistani Kashmiris, [...]

Abba – zeest k warq per chann’d ek adhoori satrein, kuch mitti huwi, kuch mad’hamm, kuch bhoolai gaeein, kuch aansoo’oan say nehlaai gaeein, kuch dard bhari per ziaada tehleel kardi gaeein
Iman – woh Gosha, woh tijaarat jo kisi mehnat ya sanyaas k baad na mila, buss kissi gunahgaar k do gumnaam say aansoo is samander [...]

In the morning I had to force my self to wake up as I never wanted to lose the chance of taking bath. We decided about the turns; so according to the protocol BILAL was the one to go or it. AZEEM told me that he takes a lot of time so u can [...]

There are some sporadic terrorists attacks in the Maland Division especially around the Mingora city. There were attacks before this success of security forces in the agency, but there is a huge difference.
Before these attacks, terrorists ruled and roamed the Malakand Division. Before these attacks, there were no security forces or police or any administrator [...]

President Obama’s interview to CNN, disclosing that he has directed his national security team to look into the Dasht-e-Leili massacre of possibly thousands of Taleban prisoners by Afghan militias supported by the US, has come as a welcome acknowledgement of a tragedy that has been ignored by the US corporate media and the US Government [...]

It’s been said that a travel loving person do not bother the weather conditions, he only travels. Well I am neither a proper traveler nor a well defined travel account writer. But one thing is fact that the urge of visitng and knowing about places has always a special place in my heart. It was [...]

Security forces have arrested a terrorist from Swat who has revealed that Taliban used to keep vigil on the girls students who wen to thier schools and colleges in day time, and then they attacked thier homes at night and kidnapped them. He told the security forces that after kidnapping, they handed over these girls [...]

Some of the media persons have started condemning the security forces over some bullet ridden bodies found in the Malakand division. These media people and human right activists have alleged that bodies are found with the hand-written message that this would be the fate of militants. Though the security forces have denied such allegations, these [...]

For last many days the word I am hearing a lot is Minus One Formula, Plus All and all that. Finally last night I had a chat with Mr. X-pert. Many untold facts came up to me and some of them were quite confusing as well. Well the conversation started with the account of one [...]

Author’s note: It was the post By Maria Sultan on Aug 17th, 2009 under the title “7000 American Marines in Islamabad ???” that prompted me to write this article.
Where It All Began And The Previous Attempts:
Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities has always been a cause of major concern for the Western countries, particularly the USA. And there have [...]