In my opinion, the claim made by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Taliban terrorist Movement of Pakistan regarding taking responsibility of the time square attack is false and aimed at gaining publicity.
Qari Hussain, the notorious mentor of Taliban suicide bombers, in one of the tapes has talked about taking onus of these attacks and also [...]
The first ministerial-level strategic dialogue between Pakistan and the United States took place on March 17-18, 2010 in Washington, D.C. It was chaired by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. A cautious optimism was expressed in the media on the outcome of the dialogue. It was said [...]
So the US has decided to increase the torture for travellers from Pakistan and other “suspect” countries. It is not just Pakistanis who will now face the “full-body pat downs” but anyone who has visited Pakistan or any of the other countries either seen as supporters of terrorism or countries of “special interest”. Interestingly, these [...]
The people of Federally Administered Tribal regions of Pakistan must be wishing in thier hearts that the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remain in Pakistan for as long as possible or forever, as it will save them from the fatal Drone Attacks.
Hillary Clinton has said that the United States was not losing the [...]
Travelling back from usual monthly visit to my village in Rajanpur district, I was intending to write on the mistreatment of southern Punjab at the hands of the local feudals in power, the provincial government and the national leadership. The latest action in this regard was the cutting off of our water on the orders [...]
“A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one, if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled…. That isn’t preventive war; that is war….. It seems to me that when, [...]
As another 14th August approaches, there is so much disarray and violence across the land and amid it all there is a qualitative increase in the dangerous trend of giving over sovereign space – both in terms of physical land as well as people – that one barely knows where to begin commenting. However, since [...]
If we take the usual defamatory rhetoric in the press about President Pervez Musharraf out—- that the man availed a lateral entry to come to the power and took an infamous action of U-Turn after incident of 9/11 but reality is that there he was who ruled us for eight long years as a President [...]
Rooted dogma is tenacious – especially when well fertilized by fear. America’s ‘War on Terror’ is going at full throttle after briefly pausing in neutral during the presidential transition. For all the talk of ‘change’ there is nothing different about how the Obama administration either defines the country’s interests or its audacious global strategy for [...]
