While rest of the Pakistan remains detached, a mini-scale full blown war is being fought by security forces in the Swat area, which is a settled area of one of only four provinces of Pakistan.
Things suddenly turned hot when Talibans blew an armoured vehicle, PTDC Hotel at Malamjabba and Army rest House, while girls school [...]
Pentagon has decided to pack up in the Iraq and focus solely in the Afghanistan, and the US media has already started backing up the new plans of the US military. They are now projecting the notion that Al-Qaeda’s operatives are making a underground railroad from Iraq to the Pakistanis areas of FATA to wage [...]
This prevailing war on terror is so-called war on terror and it’s not our war. This is the thinking and approach of majority of Pakistani nation. If we talk about in percentage, it becomes more than the vote taken in elections by President Zardari.
Government officials including interior advisor to the Prime Minister Mr Rehman Malik, [...]
“It’s difficult to understand the lack of preparedness and the ineffective initial response to a disaster that had been predicted for years and for which specific, dire warning had been given for days.”
… Susan Collins
Security from terrorists’ attacks is a formidable challenge for any entity these days and hotels are no exception to [...]
Irrespective of that who made Al-Qaeda, Taliban etc like groups and used for what reasons and on what fronts, when the utility of such groups is over then defaming and creating and projecting negative (required) image is done by use of media and diplomatic channels. There could be certain different affiliations of these created groups and [...]
Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan is in the grip of bomb blasts and terrorism. The loss of life is extremely sad, and any amount of condemnation of these attacks is insufficient, yet any condemnation now seems to be useless and without any efficacy.
We have to see and act beyond condemnations now. The point of ponder [...]
Yes, he may be assassinated like late Benazir Bhutto. President Asif Ali Zardari has himself time and again stated that the forces involved in Ms Bhutto’s Assassination may take his life also. He, in his one of the statements said that he is not afraid of dying but he does not want to die too [...]
After the visit of chief of army staff Gen Kayani to the restive tribal areas, the sense of standing for their rights has been harnessed among the tribal people, and now they are out in the public to support the army, and to express their solidarity with the security forces, virtually every agency has formed [...]
On September 15 and 16, I stayed at Marriot Islamabad. On September 17, came to Makkah to perform Umrah. While in Madinah Munawwara, I heard with deep shock and anguish that there was huge blast at Marriot Islamabad and the resultant loss of innocent lives, maiming of hundreds. The deep sense of grief engulfed me.
The [...]
