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CIA lured in NATO forces to attack Pakistani posts

By A Khokar • Dec 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

There are latest reports that TTP hirelings are being heavily armed and paid by CIA and made to infiltrate in Pakistan from Afghanistan. They are assigned with the tasks to fire back especially by mortars fire on different borders villages from inside Pakistan to instigate the military clashes on the border.
Recently civilian causalities have also [...]



The Darkened Horizon

By A Khokar • Jul 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Watched the most horrible Video of Killing of some 16 Policemen by TTP that sometimes back in one of their raid at police chowki in FATA; they abducted number of policemen from the post and were keeping them as hostages. TTP has finally released Video where all of them are killed by their firing squad.
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 [...]



Saleem Shahzad: the man who knew too much

By A Khokar • Jun 4th, 2011 • Category: Worth A Second Look

It is learnt that Saleem shahzad had a gunshot wound that he got few days back in a scuffle at a hotel and had some ribs broken and possibly lung punctured. It is generally believed that since man set off from home to go for an interview by Naseem Zohra at Dunya TV station. Soon [...]



What Next: There is a wide spread anarchy lurking

By A Khokar • Aug 27th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

There is no doubt that since the date TTP started with its subversive activities in Pakistan; the other religious and under surface militant groups also picked up their memento and with a short period of time; the extremism has engulfed the entire country. There is a wide spread lawlessness and chaos all over. Although presently; [...]



Is No Cowing in Fear; still an Option

By A Khokar • Jul 10th, 2010 • Category: Features

By A Khokar    July 9, 2010
 
Terrorism is an evil in itself, which reverberates with the sense of fear it generates among its victims by any sudden blow of a dreadful covert operation under taken by some ruthless coward assailants to fulfil their vested interests. They carry out their attacks against the soft public prime targets [...]



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 [...]



Psychological trauma of Children in Malakand

By Guest Blogger • May 30th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Malakand’s Recent Topical Conflict not only destabilized the Whole society but also put perilous effects on the daily usual life of the children in Malakand. In an estimated 3.5 Million IDPs from Swat, Dir, Bunir and Malakand, 1.5 Million were Children below 12 years of age. Reportedly violence against children of age ranging from 5 [...]



Condemn Ahmadi Worship Places Attack in Lahore

By Mohsin Sehgal • May 28th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It may be the case that the terrorists had thought that when they would attack the religious places of the Ahmadis in Lahore, they would be able to gain sympathies of the majority Muslim population.
These terrorists must know that Islam is the religion of peace and it condemns attacks on Muslims or Non Muslims alike. [...]