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Posts Tagged ‘Tirah Valley’

Cheer for General Ashfaq Kayani

By Anwar Jalal • Apr 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani has extended apology  to  Kokikhel tribes  and has expressed deep grief over the tragedy   caused by Pak Army action in Tirah valley ( Khyber agency ) in which more  then 60 innocent   people of the  tribe ( Kokikhel )  were killed  and many  have been inured.
Though initially the spokesman [...]



Sinister Situation in Swat

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics

While rest of the Pakistan remains detached, a mini-scale full blown war is being fought by security forces in the Swat area, which is a settled area of one of only four provinces of Pakistan.
Things suddenly turned hot when Talibans blew an armoured vehicle, PTDC Hotel at Malamjabba and Army rest House, while girls school [...]



Winding Up Iraq : Coming In to FATA

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Nov 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Pentagon has decided to pack up in the Iraq and focus solely in the Afghanistan, and the US media has already started backing up the new plans of the US military. They are now projecting the notion that Al-Qaeda’s operatives are making a underground railroad from Iraq to the Pakistanis areas of FATA to wage [...]



The Shattering Dreams

By A Khokar • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Few of us would have heard of Pan-Arab nationalists, such as Satia Al-Husri, Sami Shawkat, Michel Aflaq or Khairallah Tulfah. Their version of Arab nationalism is as anti-Western as it is anti-Persian. The philosophies of these men have done much to inspire generations of Arab leaders such as Gamal Abdel Nasser, who passionately advocated the [...]



I shall need you My Son

By Dr RazaHaider • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

What more can be done to an individual who is willfully and willingly acted to come to the battle field with the only option of survival.



Why Not FATA Attacks Year Ago?

By Salman Mugsi • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has assured that the United States had assured Pakistan that it would not violate the country’s territory in future, though it’s another thing that United States doesn’t really care which territory belongs to Pakistan and which not, and in that “utter confusion”, Special Operations’ raid from Afghanistan into Pakistan are [...]



Meetings of Minds at National Level

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The ongoing aerial and ground attacks of United States in the tribal regions of Pakistan are natural course of actions on the part and perspective of the United States and as the elections in United States come close, the intensity of such attacks would only increase to fuel up the bogey of Osama Bin Laden [...]



US May Attack, But Pakistan Will Not Attack US

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Now that is what one call the loyal ally in the war against terror, and that is why George W. Bush always termed Pakistan as the favorite ally of America in the war against terror and that is why, Pakistan always maintained that it was not just the war of US, but it’s own war, [...]



US Starts From North Waziristan

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

United States of America with its allies have started to attack Pakistani territory from the North Waziristan Agency and they are planning to advance steadily into other agencies and if needed into the Dir area and then to the Swat in the hot pursuit of the Talibans and the so-called Al-Qaeda.
Mike Mullen has already said [...]



How to Retaliate to America

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The third country is about to be engulfed by the US monster hawks in the name of war against terror, and the recent strings of attacks on the tribal region of Pakistan are just the start of it. The Americans violated the independence and sovereignty of Pakistan by landing their troops at Angoor Ada [...]