Tehreek-i-Taliban, which is led by Baitullah Mehsud is now after the government of Awami National Party in NWFP. According to the media reports, Tehreek-i-Taliban has warned NWFP government of dire consequences in case it failed to step down within the next five days.
Even perhaps Taliban doesn’t know how many groups of militants are working in [...]
Hamid W. Karzai and George W. Bush must have some blood relationship in the previous life, when they used to roam the jungles of Africa. Not only they have got an uncanny ability to utter rubbish at short notices without askance, they have also got the nerve and the shameless instinct to go about the [...]
With what ever an angle one may see the Global war on Terrorism; that, this war is a phoney war thriving on the myth of Al Qaeda; that US is all out to push forward their Hegemonic adventurism; that Us has their aim to grab the most lucrative and Economic Resources and routes of transportation [...]
When I just returned to my room after giving some money to an Afghan bagger and sadly consoling him that good days would come for his country, I was disgusted to see Afghan President Hamid Karzai on television threatening Pakistan that he will send Afghan troops across the border to combat Taliban insurgents.
Hamid Karzai is [...]
Like it or not, Talibans are a reality and quite a hard one and we have seen it in the recent years. Not only we, but also the foreigners have also seen their might in the FATA and Afghanistan. The erudite and affable Pushtoons are there for centuries sticking to their traditions and taboos and [...]
Just when the leader of Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, has ordered his fighters to immediately cease their activities in the tribal region as well as the NWFP, 4 people have been killed in a car bomb blast in Mardan city.
The whole Mardan city heard the explosion was rocked by it. More than 50 people are [...]
In a hilly area winning a war is not as easy as licking a lollipop. It’s a bit easy if both the armies are new to a hilly area, but the people living there for decades and just fighting and doing nothing else are too hard to be pushed back.
The people who have got intensive [...]
There is a vast chasm between the West and the Pakistan. West simply doesn’t understand what Pakistan is all about, and why don’t despite of so much aid and donations Pakistanis don’t become mellow towards it.
West is right when it asks our President Musharraf that why doesn’t he respect freedom if media and freedom justice, [...]
More than 250 children of varying ages were taken hostage in the Karak, a remote area of NWFP bordering the tribal belt. This area is very backward with a very dismal situation of education and modernization. Though its not in the tribal region, but due to the same culture and neighborhood, the major and minor [...]
The prospects for disarmament or for formal restrictions on war have become increasingly complicated by the development of irregular warfare in different forms throughout the world—guerrilla fighting, [...]
