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Posts Tagged ‘taliban’

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 [...]



Maulvi Nawaz Sharif

By Rohail Butt • Jun 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

It was the government of Pakistan People’s Party when the Benazir Bhutto herself helped forming the government of Taliban in the Kabul and her interior minister Naseerullah Babar took Mullah Omer to Kabul to lead the government. Shortly after, this Talibanic government was given money and resources and even manpower to run the affairs.
Now fast [...]



Peshawar Twin Blasts: 34 Killed, 80 Injured

By Mohammad Yusha • Jun 12th, 2011 • Category: Politics

It seems like everyday news. It happens so often that we have become numb to it. Numb to the pain of the family of those killed. Numb to the anger that should arise when we hear the news. Numb to the agony and grief of the tragedy.
Two blasts occurred in Peshawar on Saturday night killing [...]



Muslims have always outclassed the Enemy

By Aftab Alam • May 28th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Who are they it’s immaterial. But the vital question is; what is the target of terrorists? Their direct target is Islam as well as Pakistan; there is no room for doubt.
Being so, it is the vital answer that Hindu Talibans, Neocon Talibans & Talibans are the assailants having been hired & harnessed by ‘them’.  A [...]



Combined Force 105 of 6 Countries in PNS Mehran Was Target

By Ali Yar Khan • May 23rd, 2011 • Category: Politics

Pakistanis are not ignorant and they are not information less in these age. Stealth authorities can block the cable channels and do whatever they can or project whatever they want from the PTV, but in this age of Internet and telecommunication, nothing can remain hidden or muffled for too long.
While our military and intelligence has [...]



A Painful Perception

By Khalid Humayun • Apr 5th, 2011 • Category: Worth A Second Look

During a talk show on Fox News, host Brian Kilmeade spoke “all muslims are not terrorists but all Terrorists are Muslims”.  Kilmeade while apologizing his misquote also added “but that is that”, meaning thereby, facts speak for themselves.   Another veteran journalist and news analyst Juan Williams on Fox’s “The O’reilly Factor” Talk Show, said “Muslims [...]



Predicting the Unpredictable

By A Khokar • Jun 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Seeing the past track record of ever expanding  phony war on Terror and the usual US lame excuses put forward to prolong the war in the countries that US has continuously been invading to occupy, one after another on some pretext or the other— and we find that US has come and pitched its forces right at [...]



US finding retreat from Afghanistan worst than Vietnam

By A Khokar • Jun 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The developing scenario on the horizon in the West shows that US Pull out from Afghanistan is now eminent and it may start earlier than expected. In the West; all along Afghanistan war has been considered as an unwanted war and consequently Britain as well as Canada are seen impatient to pull out their troops [...]



Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam: Heretic or a Scapegoat

By A Khokar • Jun 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

For any humble citizen of Pakistan; religion may not be the criteria of one’s nationality, as Islam is a peace loving religion which teaches that ‘there is no compulsion in religion’[2;256] and there should not occur any clash in understanding one another as ‘For me is my work and for you is your work. You are [...]



We Should Welcome America to Attack FATA

By Gul Raiz • May 30th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It is no secret now for us and for the world that the tribal region of the Pakistan has become a safe heaven for the terrorists, which are a threat not only to the Pakistan but also for the whole world. Recent most glaring example is the ties between Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad and [...]