It’s not to sprinkle salt on the wounds of the internally displaced people of Swat and the FATA, but it’s a fact that these people are somewhat responsible of what they are reaping these days. Had they stood up to the raging Taliban earlier in their areas and had they not adopted collous and cynic [...]
There seems to be a near-consensus within the organs of the State that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are a mortal threat to the state of Pakistan, and that the military action underway against them should continue till its logical conclusion.
The change in the popular perception came about after they moved from FATA, which appeared a [...]
24 year old Ali, a young school teacher was fast asleep, when suddenly he heard an explosion which rattled the windows of his room and then he heard shouting outside his home. His neighbor Shaukat was screaming, “The Taliban has arrived.” Everyone was running helter, skelter. No one knew what was going to happen next. [...]
How foolish and greedy, the Taliban in Swat have proved. They had got an ideal deal out of their militant activities and they had literally succeeded in blackmailing the government, and they had a dream come true and they had their parrallel government in the whole of Malakand Agency, an arrangement they really couldn’t believe.
Intoxicated [...]
Regardless of the nature of the military operation or the location of it, the biggest reality is that success cannot be achieved without the hands-down support of the local population. When the forces will have powerful moral grounds and bursting popular support at thier back, they will crush any enemy anywhere.
Pakistan Army has defeated the [...]
The Lahore High Court on Tuesday ordered the release of Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and another leader of the group, Col (retd) Nazir Ahmad, observing that the government had insufficient grounds to detain them. Where this decison has provided another leverage to the Pakistani authorities to control the terrorism in the country, arch-rival [...]
Right now battle of SWAT and Rehabilitation of IDPs are the two main fronts where Pakistan is struggling for. By the grace of God our forces have almost accomplished the task and successfully destroyed major militants’ hideouts but regrettably the excuse for fighting this war is still there. Some days back our [...]
Lack of vision, media frenzy, hasty decisions, ill planning, blurd objectives and unclear distinctions had led to the debacle of the Lal Masjid operation in 2007 and it backfired with a long strings of suicide attacks in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
The failure of Nizam-e-Adl regulation in Swat due to the violations from [...]
Four Commandos of Pakistan Army were given the responsibility to infiltrate the enemy lines to give an opening to the advancing forces, so that forces could strike exactly at the enemy without harming the civilian population under the hostage of the terrorists. These four commandoes didn’t waste a second and jumped into the fire. They [...]
This is the time when Pakistan is redefining itself. Pakistan has selected the way from the crossroads and now as the Army is spearheading this new yet very complex journey, the whole nation joins the army. Army is stepping up the gas to get o the with the task, and the enemy is on the [...]
