The Pakistani Spectator

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Posts Tagged ‘America’

We Should Sometimes Thank America

By Tazeen • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Like it or not, many Pakistanis and their numbers are rising rapidly believe that the drone attacks by the Americans in the FATA region are justified and they support these attacks. We all know that our military and the government are also on board in that regard and they know the blow which these drone [...]



Terrorists are at the gates of Nukes, US Still fears

By Tazeen • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Once again, after a short lull, the Western media has once again started to whine that the terrorists within Pakistan could any time storm and capture the Pakistani nuclear installations. It’s a matter of open guessing that whether Americans and their cousines are worried, fearful or they are just making up an excuse to take [...]



The Changing Tides

By Mohammad Ali • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

This article is highlighting the threats Pakistan may face from Afghanistan and India in near future in the lights of the current Afghan Policy set in London and in the speech of the US President Barack Obama.



Bumper Sticker of the Year

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment


IPL and Cricket Politics

By Johann • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

I was a young boy when 17 year old Hanif Mohamed came to India under Hafeez Kardar. I saw only a clip of his batting in INR( Indian news review) for may be a minute and i was impressed. I genuinely rejoiced when Pakistan beat the English cricket team at Lords an achievement India is [...]



Understanding the Threat

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

It could not have been a mere coincidence that both George Bush Jr and President Obama chose the military setting of West Point to proclaim their new militarist strategic doctrines - one, an extensive global doctrine of pre-emption and rejection of deterrence, the other relating to Afghanistan. The scope of the two statements reflects the [...]



Iran’s Nuclear Installations and Threats

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Jan 14th, 2010 • Category: Features


Victory That Will Never Be

By Mashaal Javed • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics

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 [...]



Pakistan is a ‘Country of Interest’ for United States

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Jan 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

All travelers flying into the U.S. from foreign countries will receive tightened random screening, and 100 percent of passengers from 14 terrorism-prone countries will be patted down and have their carry-ons searched, the Obama administration was notifying airlines on Sunday.
The more stringent Transportation Security Administration rules, to take effect at midnight, follow the attempted Christmas [...]



Iblees Ka Sajda

By Kaptain Mirza • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

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 [...]