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Posts Tagged ‘9/11’

The Explosives-laden Underwear

By A Khokar • Jan 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The explosives-laden underwear–worn by an airline passenger who had previously been flagged as a potentially dangerous fanatic, and who had paid cash for his ticket and had no checked luggage–was the terrorist’s weapon of choice, one that could have blown a hole in the side of Northwest Airlines’ Detroit-bound Flight 253 on Christmas Day, killing [...]



Official Notification

By Guest Blogger • Dec 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

We’re out of sugar Joe Public
Best start crystallizing diabetic piss
To have peace around you requires peace within
Thats why we’re planning to legalize cannabis
The enemy lurks ever closer to our nukes
But don’t worry we’ve got a roadmap
They’ll bid on our open tender and we’ll C.O.D it
Set up a few practice shoots,
Who’s gonna notice missing mud shacks?
My [...]



Talking Past is Fun, Taliban are Current

By Mohsin Sehgal • Nov 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It’s true that Pakistani ISI and American CIA with the help of other Western powers and Middle East powers helped created Mujahideens of 80s, in which Pakistan was the front line state, and this ragtag force equipped with state-of-the-art weapons defeated USSR, which resulted in it’s historic breakup.
That was then surely in the interest of [...]



Cut that Last Tree Branch where they Perch to Alight

By A Khokar • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The war on terror declared by USA after the incident of 9/11 was ultimately brought to our western borders under the pretext that US lead NATO forces were fighting Al Qaeda and were chasing this stateless organisation declared as enemy by United States that it was allegedly using the god forsaken territory of FATA in [...]



The Nuclear - Terrorism Threat ?

By ahsan • Sep 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Foreign media continue to express doubts about security and safety of Pakistan’s nuclear materials. It is suggested that terrorists may steal radioactive material to fabricate a `dirty bomb’, a euphemism for a radiological-dispersal device. It is claimed that facilities housing the nuclear and radiological material, including spent-fuel storage and fuel-cycle facilities, are an easy prey [...]



Killer Buzzwords

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jun 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Buzzwords stinks. Time to come to basics now. Hassan Nisar rightly pointed out in his interview with Dr. Shahid Masood that all they knew are 400 to 500 sentences and if we snatch these sentences out of their mouth these so called politicians couldn’t speak anymore. Why not to guess the governments through Buzzwords? Like to begin with



Shifting Sands

By A Khokar • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

 If we take the usual defamatory rhetoric in the press about President Pervez Musharraf out—- that the man availed a lateral entry to come to the power and took an infamous action of U-Turn after incident of 9/11 but reality is that there he was who ruled us for eight long years as a President [...]



Obama Quotes From Quran, A Fine Gesture

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

President Barack Hussain Obama is doing a fine job right now of visiting different Muslim countries and his speeches are being applauded throughout the Muslim world, but with justified apprehension and disbelief, as only action will prove and time will tell as how much serious and sincere and independent Obama is in what he says.
9/11 [...]



Pakistan’s major threat: US ignorance

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Mar 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

US ignorance regarding the ground realities of Pakistan is a source of major threat to Pakistan, both in terms of its internal dynamics and external security concerns. Taking the internal dynamics first, there were the crude US interventions during the nation’s reassertion of its self in the context of the long march and the demand [...]



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.