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Leaders vs. Dealers

By Aftab Alam • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistan miseries are older than her birth. Prior the partition Punjab dissection was devised to hurt ruthlessly Pakistan’s vital interests in the approaching days. Same was the tragedy of the of Bengal partition strategy.
There were some 570 princely states in United India; only 3 had not acceded to the newly born countries; Pakistan & India. [...]



Brinkmanship to statesmanship

By Guest Blogger • Mar 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The recent visit of our foreign secretary to India did not achieve anything worthwhile, except that the Pakistani officials raised all important issues like Kashmir, water diversion, Indian interference in Baluchistan etc. Taking advantage of our foreign secretary’s presence in Delhi, the political leadership of IHK interacted with him that depicted convergence of views between [...]



Supporting the Non Violent Struggle in Kashmir

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • Feb 28th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The struggle for freedom in Kashmir has undergone a radical change during the last few years – changing in character from essentially a reliance on the power of armed resistance to embracing the tactics of non violence. For freedom fighters to make this transition is a substantive step which is loaded with tremendous possibilities and [...]



Begging won’t budge Bharat

By Aftab Alam • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Those who believe that Hindus will throw anything in our bowl by begging are nonbelievers Muslims!!! The more we beg for the pretentious talks the more they (viz Bharat) will become rigid. Bharat would never ever be able to budge a little in dispute of Kashmir, until & unless we would be able to force [...]



No need to dialogue in haste

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics

India’s real intentions on commencing a dialogue with Pakistan are now becoming clearer. One, they have no intention of resuming the composite dialogue; two, they want to talk on issues framed their way focusing on terrorism, but they do not include water, which has become a source of Indian state terrorism for Pakistan; and, three, [...]



Indian Brutalities in Held Kashmir

By Afshain Afzal • Feb 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Indian held Jammu & Kashmir state (IHK) never remained peaceful for even a single day since Indian occupation some over 62 years back. Though Indian government quite regularly organizes elections in this state but all the major political parties keep themselves aloof from this drama. Resultantly, Indian intelligence handpicked puppets come to power, only to [...]



Kashmir Solidarity Day - 5th February

By Guest Blogger • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Since 1991, Pakistanis from around the world, observe the 5th of February as a day to express solidarity with the people of Kashmir, who have been the victims of the worst Indian state terrorism for struggling and rendering unparalleled sacrifices to achieve their birth right, the right to self-determination, for the past six decades. There [...]



Impediments to Aman Ki Asha

By amicus • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Features

In January 2004 the India-Pakistan peace initiative launched by President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpai, was enthusiastically welcomed by the media, including the Jang-Geo and The Times of India groups and celebrated with much fanfare, by many in two countries; yet the tempo could not be sustained and it failed to [...]



Indo-Israeli military nexus

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Jan 25th, 2010 • Category: Politics

With all that has been happening in this region, one had tended to push the Indo-Israeli relationship on the backburner. This was not wise because the military dimension of this relationship is critical and has been a major factor in India’s military policies in Occupied Kashmir. Post-9/11 the Israeli factor has always covertly been present [...]



Can US Strategy Stabilise Afghanistan?

By Mashaal Javed • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Sequel to the policy speech on Afghan strategy, various opinions and comments have appeared in the US press indicating that Pakistan needs to expand war against terrorists and extremists to other areas in Pakistan. The New York Times reported in its edition of 8 December that the US has warned Pakistan that its forces would [...]