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Posts Tagged ‘Waziristan Operation’

Waziristan Operation

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s just matter of time before the operation in the Waziristan area of Pakistan gets into full gear. The area has been sorrounded by the security forces, people have started to vacate the area and already thousands of them have taken refuge in D.I Khan and in Peshawar.
There is huge panic among the cadres of [...]



Hakimullah Mehsud : Deadlier Than Baitullah Mehsud

By Gul Raiz • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

How easy and quick it is to strike in the heart of Islamabad that a suicide bomber, clad in F.C uniform sauntered into the reception areas of the World Food Program of United Nations and blasted himself into the face of the poor receptionist who was mildly amazed to see a security person into the [...]



Waziristan Operation: Drone Attacks Are in Favor of Pakistan

By Gul Raiz • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The war which we are fighting in the FATA and Swat is our own. It always was. President Musharraf’s decision to engage world community to help Pakistan in eradicating the terrorism from this region was a very visionary and shrewd decision. He sensed at that time that the world alignments have changed and the menace [...]



Afghanistan’s Doomed Occupation

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“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, [...]