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Cooler Heads Needed in Pak-America Relations

By Haris Hashmi • Sep 27th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There is one thing which is common in Obama and Zardari. Both have delegated their policies regarding war on terror to their military and secret agencies. Obama has done so willingly, and here nobody asked Zardari about it, but nonetheless policy and decision making in this regard is done by the military heads.
Politicians are accustomed, [...]



Do We have Any Foreign Policy?

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 24th, 2011 • Category: Politics

I don’t think that Hina Rabbani Khar was made the foreign minister to reveal the charms of Pakistan on the outside world. For that purpose, Zardari could have appointed Asma Arbab Alamgir or Kashmala Tariq or any chick from their own party, who are more charming and cute than Hina. Hina is surely not a [...]



Warning to Taliban

By Adnan Arshad Mansoori • Sep 21st, 2011 • Category: Politics

“I’m not scared. I will not spare them – I’m Chaudhry Aslam — Generation after Generation of TALIBAN —“SHALL”— REMEMBER my NAME.”
WELL - but being an ADVOCATE of Islamic Militants mine Logical Question directly to all those who are Tribal of American Presence Lover at Afghanistan/Pakistan — i.e. — America & NATO Forces in Totality [...]



Chaudhry Aslam & his wealth

By Dawar Naqvi • Sep 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics

“There was no help in Karachi (site of escalating violence) or with the bomb blasts. All I got from them were concocted stories of corruption. What is the purpose of intelligence, if they can’t infiltrate terrorism?” Benazir Bhutto
A car-borne suicide bomber flattened the enormous expensive house of a senior CID police officer in the country’s [...]



Soft Image

By Nisar Khattak • Aug 18th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Creating soft image is an instinctive impulse since we feel happy when eulogized with open arms acceptance. This psychological perception also creates the ignoble ‘fool-sycophant’ business, ever committed to promote ‘make and break’ euphoria.
As we have learnt, the noble do not require certification of their deeds since their contended conscience is more than sufficient for [...]



The Created Taliban’s

By Mian Kausar Hameed • Aug 11th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Who are the real Taliban? To know the fact we need to go back a bit in history and correlate some of the events which will be fresh in the minds of so many people who are observant to events that take place from time to time.
Why do countries try and invade other countries? Invariably [...]



Drone Attacks Dilemma

By Inam R Sehri • Aug 4th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Today on 2nd August 2011, Pakistan suffered with two more drone attacks. Washington has announced a delay in $800m of Pakistan’s military aid but drone attacks are still on.
Earlier on 11th July 2011 about 45 suspected militants were reportedly killed in a series of strikes from US drone attacks in FATA. Nine missiles were fired [...]



Al Qaeda Inviting America to Quetta

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jul 31st, 2011 • Category: Politics

Where Pakistani forces and the security agencies are trying their utmost best to safeguard the interests of the Pakistan, the terrorists outfits who are being funded by the foreign powers are busy at damaging the Pakistan’s foundations and along with carrying out the attacks, they are providing apt opportunities to the CIA and NATO forces [...]



Global War on Terror: Fact, Fiction or Figment?

By Syed Muhammad Waqas • Jul 17th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

A burning question is before all of us at the dawn of new decade; why terrorism? The interpretations given by the advocates of the global war against the so-called enemy, ‘the terror’, are indeed mind-boggling. Many know that the dominant discourse of the world politics coins phrases and doctrines of the Superpower’s choice, for the [...]



Al-Qaeda in Pakistan

By Guest Blogger • Jun 23rd, 2011 • Category: Politics

In an interview in 1998 Mr Brzezinski, the then national security advisor to president Carter, stated: “It was July 3, 1979 that president Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. We did not push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that [...]