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Posts Tagged ‘USA’

10 Reasons Why I don’t trust Super Power

By Asad ur Rehman • Apr 6th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

America is the super power of the world. I don’t have any personal grudges with American citizens or the country itself. There are number of factors on the basis of which I have no faith in American governments.



Clash of Civilizations: Christians & Muslims??

By Dil Nawaz • Dec 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

As a student of history of relations between Muslims and Christians, the headlines have made grim readings for me personally, as I genuinely feel that there is a connection between both traditions of the Followers of the Books of Abraham.
56 killed in a Baghdad church and continuous attacks on Christian neighbourhoods of Iraq, Iraq’s Christian [...]



Sincerity was not there…

By Rai Azlan • Sep 27th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Staying quite and ignoring is inhuman, accepting in heart bad as bad is the lowest standard of the faith, and if you are brave enough to raise voice it’s one step higher standard. That’s what I was thinking a few minutes ago when I was thinking about one of the greatest judicial miscarriage of the [...]



Suicidal attacks on Lahore Mosques and Threats of America

By Dr. Sania F • May 31st, 2010 • Category: Politics

I was not surprised to read the news that America is planning to attack on tribal areas of Pakistan but they also do not want to disturb Pak- American relations. It means USA wants to get approval of the government of Pakistan. Our rulers seems to follow the instructions of USA, therefore, it can be [...]



The Laughable Certitude of Foundational Intellectuals

By Dr. Masood Raja • May 23rd, 2010 • Category: Features

In a recent TV interview, Professor Christine Fair, Georgetown University, made the following unfair (I can’t resist the pun here) statement in response to another expert’s views, contrary to hers, on the question of US drone attacks in Pakistan and their linkage to the accentuation of radical responses to the United States by the Taliban [...]



A new terrorist network or what?

By Afshain Afzal • May 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

While scanning certain US based newspapers, in order to find out latest about the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, I came across quite similarity in all the reports, rather these were to an extent replica of each other.  A striking point I noticed that every newspaper, magazine and media channel dubbed Faisal as Pakistani-American. It reminds [...]



India Rocks in Afghanistan

By A Khokar • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Features

This has been the earnest desire of India that it could exercise a full control over this region. Afghanistan offers a strategic hub location from where this entire region full of economic resources can effectively be kept in control.
Middle East, Iran, Pakistan and other Central Asian States like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan for these [...]



TTP: A Satan in the Robe of a Preacher

By A Khokar • May 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

To organise a force of volunteers and make them believe in national cause, as is demonstrated by Taliban that they all, very bravely rose up to the occasion to fight for the freedom of their country which is under occupation by foreign forces. Their fight is stretched over such a long period of time which [...]



Pakistan under the Microscope

By Tanzeel • May 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Post Faisal Shahzad and Ajmal Kassab scenario has yet again provided Indian hawks to spew venom against Pakistan, lately I came across with a hate filled article in Wall Street Journal by an Indian Journalist Sadanand Dhume who has subtly tried to connect every terrorist having Muslim name with Pakistan. I usually don’t pay heed [...]



Nuclear Security Summit

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Apr 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

These days nuclear matters are on the centre stage of international affairs. America’s ‘Nuclear Posture Review’ (NPR) and signing of ‘Nuclear Arms Treaty’ between USA and Russia had set the wheel in motion for the far more trickier event of ‘Nuclear Security Summit’ (NSS), where around forty seven states are deliberating the measures to strengthen [...]