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Posts Tagged ‘Mumbai Attacks’

Agents and Conspirators

By Afshain Afzal • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistan is being blamed for Mumbai attacks and is under immense international pressure to take action against the culprits. Islamabad is trying its level best to sustain international pressure as it hasn’t got much choice to fulfill the demand such as ‘to call a chicken a monster’. Despite the fact that cases against those blamed [...]



Hidden truth behind Mumbai attacks

By Afshain Afzal • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Politics

December 15, 2009, was probably the saddest day for Indian authorities, especially the Indian Military Intelligence (MI), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and a couple of other agencies who participated in Mumbai attacks drama to make it look real.
In the past, India had been blaming Pakistan for the Mumbai attacks. The cock [...]



Sufficient Proof of Indian involvement in Terrorism in Pakistan

By Shayan Khan • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The present dispensation is making us a laughing stock. There is no coordination among the government ministers, advisors, premier and the president whatsoever. Nobody knows what to say and where to go and what actually is the center of gravity.
President has his own qibla and the premier has his own. The administration is divided, confused [...]



Peace Process and 26/11

By ahsan • Oct 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Ever since the coming down of the WTC twin towers in New York on September Eleven 2001, terrorism has acquired  the status of a regulatory tap that India has compulsively employed to control the ebb and flow of  Indo Pak bilateral relations. The strategy has served them well and even after passage of nine years [...]



India’s Dubious Character in Mumbai Investigations

By ahsan • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

India is not in a mood to let the Mumbai probe go in a smooth fashion. Earlier, on the request of Pakistan to provide necessary information regarding the incident, India has been sharing the information with Pakistan in bits and pieces. As a result, fourth folder has been handed over to Pakistan few days back. [...]



From Af-Pak to Hind-Pak

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Features


Immigration to India or Pakistan

By Muskan Hina • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s time that the Pak-India relationship should get better. So much water has passed under the bridges and so much animosity has been experienced and after the string of terrorism in Pakistan and the Mumbai attacks in India, both countries must work together to get rid of this menace on both sides and render relief [...]



Indian Non Cooperation in Mumbai Attacks

By ahsan • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Despite Pakistan’s repeated demands, India has failed to supply solid information in relation to the culprits of Mumbai mayhem which occurred on November 26 last year. Instead of providing any evidence, New Delhi has only been propagating that the gunmen who conducted terrorist events in Mumbai came from Pakistan. Surprisingly, on July 21, Indian Foreign [...]



Can the intel community defuse India-Pakistan tensions?

By Isha Khan • Feb 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

The CIA played a back-channel role in serving as an arbiter and vehicle for intelligence sharing in order to ease tensions between India and Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks, the Washington Post reports today. “In the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the CIA orchestrated back-channel intelligence exchanges between India and Pakistan, allowing the two [...]



Holbrooke is Tough, Huh ?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Feb 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

President Obama’s special envoy Richard Holbrooke was here in his colony for three nights in the previous week and though we were told by Herr Rehman Malik that Richard was here to get the tutorial about the happenings in Afghanistan and Pakistan and their role and tasks in war on terror, no one got decevied [...]