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Posts Tagged ‘taliban’

Where Pakistan-America Relations are Heading?

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 5th, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Policy makers in Pakistan are burning the midnight oil these days pondering over the recent developments or degradations for that matter regarding the Pakistan-USA relationship, and where they are heading. That’s not an easy ask, because there are so many gray areas and these relations are intertwined in a complex fashion, coupled with inevitable dependencies, [...]



Notions of Strategic Depth

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Drone and suicide bomber are the new facets of contemporary warfare; representing the concepts of ‘bomb without man’ and ‘man as a bomb’. Moreover, all nuclear states have a tendency to indulge in proxy wars through non-state actors and third party state actors. These warfare related innovations have altered the conventional time space calculus; thus [...]



Armed Forces Protect Us; We Must Treat Them With Respect

By Shaukat Masood Zafar • Dec 24th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Well trained and dedicated to its duties, Pakistan’s army is the best and advanced one in the world. It is the best organized and well disciplined group in the country, always fully aware of the internal and external threats faced by the country. Every soldier is always ready to defend the country in all situations. [...]



Pakistan may add drones to her inventory-easily

By A Khokar • Dec 23rd, 2011 • Category: Politics

There is no doubt US got upper hand in drone technology and is free to carry out strikes at her will under self proclaimed ‘CIA’s judge-jury-executioner assassination program’ in the lands which may offer less or no resistance to drone operation for lack of their ability or other constraints like in Pakistan to counter drone [...]



Time Pakistan Give Freedom to Afghanistan and to Itself

By Gul Raiz • Nov 17th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Before you declare me a traitor, I want to assure you that I am a born Pakistani and still living here and will live here until you lynch me or throw me into Arabian Sea. But I would keep on speaking truth and what I feel is better for my motherland.
Yes my heart aches when [...]



No More Slaugher Please

By Gul Raiz • Nov 13th, 2011 • Category: Politics

I mean what the heck. Just read the following:
In a news report, it is said that the head honcho of Taliban Mullah Omer has said in his recorded message that Taliban shouldnt be slaughtering the people anymore, and the Taliban should keep themselves about the technology and science through the websites, and also they will [...]



Unsung Heroes!

By Razwan Khan • Nov 3rd, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Taliban threat continues to spread like a virus, and thousands of deaths can be attributed to their atrocities. The latest trend on their end has been to go after those who are willing to take a stand against their hatred and evil ideology. Many of us might take comfort in knowing that as long [...]



Maximum America Can to do Pakistan Is…..

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 29th, 2011 • Category: Politics

United States would wage the last war against Pakistan in the world. They don’t want to start a full blown war in Pakistan as that would mean an open warfare with many other Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Indonesia and many others including Turkey and Iran, and this would spread.
Fairly, they don’t need to [...]



Don’t Blame Others, Introspect Please

By Zeenat Rehman • Oct 24th, 2011 • Category: Politics

It’s so easy and convenient to blame and make wild allegations in the aura of conspiracy theories upon the America, India and other countries and groups. For us Pakistanis the favorite pastime is to hatch and then spread conspiracy theories. We think that we are the most important in the world, and the whole world [...]



Hillary Clinton Takes Step Towards Peace

By Haris Hashmi • Oct 12th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Pakistan and America are rigorously meeting with each other in different parts of the world and there final deal for now has  been struck with the  help of Saudi Arabia in UAE. The news is that most of the basic contentious issues have been sorted out and now Pakistan and America would jointly offer carrot [...]