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Timeline of American Aggression in Pakistan

By Ali Suleman • Nov 30th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

§ 1 January 2011: US drones launched 3 separate strikes killing 18 civilians. No reaction from Pak military, political leadership.
§ 7 January 2011: According to anonymous Pakistani officials, a USA drone strike in North Waziristan killed at least 4 civilians. No reaction from Pak military, political leadership.
§ 12 January 2011: US drones fired 4 missile [...]



We are at War, dammit

By Ali Yar Khan • Nov 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Until and unless we dare to wade into the hot waters, we cannot learn how swim in it. We have to part with the rhetoric and the advices and venture out to assert ourselves. Never was more crucial and decisive the time as it is now in our turbulent history.
We are in the middle of [...]



We Must Not Ignore Swat and FATA

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

With beguilers putting up different sorts of decoys and with urchins of old times mushrooming to prove their honesty, real issues have been pushed back. Sugar crisis, rental power plants, corruption stories in Islamabad and other issues are also there to haunt the nation along with the debate of Musharraf’s fate and 17th amendment.
More bigger [...]



Military Operation Against TTP and It’s Implications

By amicus • Jul 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There seems to be a near-consensus within the organs of the State that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are a mortal threat to the state of Pakistan, and that the military action underway against them should continue till its logical conclusion.
The change in the popular perception came about after they moved from FATA, which appeared a [...]



Fierce Fighting

By Sher Ali • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The battlefields are hot, hotter than sun in Swat and South Waziristan. The jawans of Pakistan Army are sacrificing their lives but their resolve is to eliminate the butchers and barbarians who have put the survival of the country at stake and to make our lives once again tranquil and peaceful, without any existential threat [...]



Blackmailer Baitullah

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jun 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Pakistan’s #1 terrorist is Baitullah Mehsud who has rocked Pakistan from Karachi to Khyber with a continuous string of suicide attacks, bomb blasts, kidnapping and then his other evil tactics. He has garnered support from many quarters and is capable of wrecking havoc throughout Pakistan.
His this power has not all of a sudden emerged from [...]



Haz Zardari Gone Crazy?

By Salman Mugsi • May 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

I mean what the hell he thinks he is? An epitome of wisdom? A Paragon of Intelligence? The hell he is. We are doomed and we are destined towards a very painful demolition if this man remains our head of state, and that is for sure. After returning from yet another long trip abroad, Zardari [...]



The Escape with Undefined Fate

By Dr RazaHaider • May 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

“Your land is like mother who groom & nurture you as son. How can one leave and left her mother within and to the hand of ravishers. I do not find any satisfactory reason to disown part of my country as land putting my life and living more desirable than place as freedom so to be declared as IDPs”.



Grant a life to Taliban Tehrik or Else…?

By A Khokar • May 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

USA; the sole super power on this planet is in occupation of a country situated right at our next door- Afghanistan. USA is here as an oppressor, a godfather and exterminator of present age and time. It is seen that in order to extend their planned hegemony, USA advances bound by bound. The  country falling next in [...]



Why Must Taliban Remain Shrouded in Mystery?

By A Khokar • May 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

As per the demand of Pak Army operation ‘Rah e Rast-4′,— millions have been asked to vacate their homes in Swatt–Malakand in view of their safety so that subject operational areas are cleansed of savage Taliban effectively. But this evacuation has resulted in an exodus of a worst kind and there is a dire need that [...]