The Pakistani Spectator

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against US President Barack Obama, demanding legal basis for America’s deadly drone attacks overseas.
The lawsuit requests essential information on the fatalities of drone strikes and other information essential for judging the legality of using armed drones to carry out targeted killings, the United Press International [...]

In the year after the Taliban fell, international forces numbered a modest 12,000 or so. Today that figure has swollen to well over 100,000 and will approach 140,000 with the latest troop commitments. There are also 100,000 Defense Department contractors supporting the military effort. The insurgency has mushroomed in equal measure.
According to a recent report [...]

Pakistan has seen and endured enough of these irking and unwelcomed immigrants from Afghanistan. Pakistan’s all cities are brimming with these Afghan mohajirs and Pakistan’s 50% crimes are due to these immigrants. If Pakistan wants to be at peace and progress in proper fashion, these Afghans needs to be sent back.
These Afghans are scattered especially [...]

Once again the cacophony of demands from the US and its allies on Pakistan has reached a crescendo. The US is getting increasingly frustrated at its glaring failure in Afghanistan. Undoubtedly, the shadow of Vietnam must be looming larger over Washington - with demands for more troops from the military command on the ground in [...]

America has unfurled its much awaited strategy with respect to Afghanistan, the one that ought to provide an honourable exit from its eight year long war in Afghanistan. Though the President of the United States did take the Indian Prime Minister and the Pakistani President in confidence before going public with his strategy yet, it [...]

January 1 will usher in the last year of the first decade of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States conducting war in the Greater Middle East.
Beginning with the October 7, 2001 missile and bomb attacks on Afghanistan, American combat operations abroad have not ceased for a year, a month, a [...]

Afghanistan has been the battle ground for many outside invaders since centuries but none could prevail therein. The resolute Afghans have always resisted foreign occupation and the respective misadventures turned into “graveyard of empires” over time. The latest in the list is the United States of America, the only super power that invaded Afghanistan in [...]

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 [...]

The awaited NRO is defeated and buried but unearthed the same old faces who would want to come back for a kill yet sometime again, if we falter. We have been for the last 62 years. The glimmer of hope that each one of us awaited finally came. Reaching there seemed easy but for how [...]

Consequent to August 20 Afghan elections made controversial by the powers to be, Afghans will be asked to re-cast their votes in a $200m runoff being arranged on 7 November. Though the Afghan Independent Election Commission had declared Mr. Karzai the winner in the last elections having bagged 54 percent of the votes cast yet, [...]