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Posts Tagged ‘Tirah Valley’

America: Our Ultimate Nanny?

By Maham Javed • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Ever since the Creation of Pakistan, a need for an ally was one that was deeply felt. Pakistan, suffering from the loss of her leader and founder, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was still teetering on dangerous grounds. India was yet again to be seen happily contemplating the moment when Pakistan would take a tumble or [...]



Pakistanis Be Prepared For American Attack

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Have you seen the footages of American marines breaking into the homes of Iraqi people, dragging the ladies and children out and killing their men in the heads and then taking away the ladies while leaving children behind? Is there any need to refresh your memory with the pictures of Abu-Gharib, or would you like [...]



Ahmad Mukhtar Defends US Attack on Pakistan

By Fatima Tassaduq • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

United States launched it’s first and surely not the last ground operation in the Pakistani territory with a killing spree, and didn’t even mention it let alone showing any remorse or regret. What Pakistani authorities did is the spectacle of climax of shamelessness and disgrace.
According to the media sources, United States-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [...]



United States Starts Attacking Pakistan

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After sending their Predator drones and missiles in the Pakistani territory of FATA, U.S first time sent it’s marines in the area who killed at liberty and played “holi” with the blood of Pakistani women and children. They not only murdered the innocent people, they also abused them before killing.
According to the news pouring in [...]



Time to Turn Around

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

We have reached on the brink of the drop-off point and now it’s time to turn back if we are not to commit mass suicide as a sovereign nation. The final clash is on and the time is running our for making crucial decisions in regard of law and order situation in the FATA and [...]



Very Alarming FATA

By Altaf Khan • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Literally thousands of people are daily leaving the Bajaur and Mahmand Agency due to the infighting between Talibans and the clashes of them with the security forces. Just within two days, more than 50 people have died and many are injured.
Now the reports are that in the Bajaur Agency, the group of Maulvi Faqir Mohammad [...]



Exodes, Blowing Up, Operations and FATA/Swat

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Militants blew up the office of a tehsildar, a girls’ school and 46 shops in Swat. Shor, Namal, Gut and Peuchar areas of Matta and Deolai, Manja and Taran areas of Kabal are seeing worst clashes between security forces and the Talibans and the life has come to a virtual standstill, and people of the [...]



New Threat

By Dawar Naqvi • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl. On August 4th ‘In the valley of Swat militants burn down five girls schools’ and ‘Girls school in Quetta [...]



Pity the Americans

By Asim H. Akhund • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After 9/11, Al Qaeda did not take the responsibility of the attacks. It was only a week or so before the US Presidential elections in 2004 (in which Bush was again standing for the President), Osama Bin Laden released a footage claiming that they have carried out the attacks of 9/11.
Now that the 2008 US [...]



Pakistan Need to Decide between, it’s Sovereignty or the Sanctuaries

By A Khokar • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

On the Pakistan/Afghanistan Border - A Tinderbox…is open. No one seems to be getting along at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Taliban attacks NATO troops over the border but also fellow residents of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) inside Pakistan. Hovering of US drones in FATA is a common scene; even Pak [...]