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Murg-e-bar Baitullah Mehsud

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Apr 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Baitullah Mehsud is a monster? invincible? super human? who is he? He is terrorizing the whole region with full liberty and then very leisurely taking “credit” for all the “achievements”. This creep is killing the people (99% Muslims) throughout Pakistan almost weekly, and then he appears on the radio or telephone with the media, takes [...]



Af-Pak Strategy and a different Islamabad (Urdu Column)

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Mar 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Manipulation Of Islam-The Bigger Picture

By Muhammad Ali Sajjad • Feb 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

During the Soviet Afghan war, US saw the opportunity to bring its bitter enemy down to its knees, thus arose the need for a mercenary to fight, as USA still licking its wounds after against suffering a bloody nose from the Vietnam (Mis) Adventure. USA found a willing ally in Muslims countries of Asia (namely [...]



It’s Not Pakistan of Baitullah Mehsud and Maulana Fazlullah

By Mohsin Sehgal • Feb 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan’s history is the mumbo jumbo of the blunders made by the military dictators and the civilians autocrats. Every region has it’s strategic importance and if you are on the map of earth then you are strategically important. There is nothing weird or conspirational about it. Pakistan’s obsession with becoming the pivot for the region [...]



Feverish FATA on Placebo

By Dr RazaHaider • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Up till now it is as clear as truth that the composite actions in conductivity, are the typical acts of subversions recipes, as practiced by Indian RAW. Bridges, schools, shelters, offices, resorts and pumps and any thing that may distort economy and move and reversion to peace, is almost destroyed.



Obama or Bush : Drone Attacks Will Go On

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Hillary Clinton, brand new US Secretary of State but an old player has made that clear to Pakistan.
Twenty people, majority of them local tribesmen, were killed and several others were injured in two different missile strikes by US drones in North and South Waziristan tribal agencies on last Friday evening, the first such attacks [...]



The Hell is About to Break

By A Khokar • Jan 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The provocative drone attacks of U.S Special Forces in FATA area are on as ever. Most of the Pakistanis had a hope that probably with the incoming of new U.S. administration headed by President Barack Hussien Obama; the overall situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan may take a different turn. But another drone missile attack on [...]



Benazir Income Support Program in Waziristan

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jan 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

In a very commendable piece of work, the PPP government has extended the Benazir Income Support program to the restive areas of tribal regions in the North. These hinterlands of Pakistan depict the most oppressed and under-developed parts of the world and are ruled by the Taliban. This is where United States showers missiles from [...]



Pakistan’s Future Hinges on Governance

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There is no doubt about the fact that the major target of all the external powers is the nuclear assets of Pakistan. The pressure which was mounted upon Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks wasn’t just from India, rather US, UK and other EU countries joined in the chorus to press upon Pakistan to rollback or [...]



Democracy Promotion and Islam — Part 1

By Prof. Michael Brenner • Jan 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The moment is propitious to take a hard look at the efficacy of strategies designed to promote liberal political values in Islamic societies. The metaphoric democratic wave that gained impetus from the Soviet Union’s breakup has registered successes in most of the world. The Islamic world, the Arab Middle East in particular, still stands out [...]