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Posts Tagged ‘Oil War’

The Women: Next Door

By A Khokar • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Amir Tahri, a columnist gives us an insight that what future holds for women in our neighbouring country Iran. Iran where even Shirin Ebadi: The Nobelist faces threats for backing women’s rights.
AHMADINEJAD’S NEW ENEMY: WOMEN.
IN one of his last sermons before his death, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned of “three threats” to his vision of [...]



We Have Broken it, So We Ought to Fix it

By A Khokar • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Although we may be right in blaming US for the prevalent mayhem and anarchy in Pakistan but this was surely Pakistan’s own choice that they see themselves now gutted in this hell fire. It is their own created inferno which is eating it up and is turning this heavenly country’s western area into rubble and [...]



There is victory in sight for George W Bush?

By A Khokar • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Politics

Where as purported presence of Al-Qaeda among Taliban on Pak-Afghan border has so far served as a tool and a lynch pin of Neocons dream hegemonic policy in Middle East and Central Asia. US has virtually been showing its craze to depict Al Qaeda as an omnipotent force, an imaginary, invisible enemy in disguise to [...]



America Can Afford to Attack Iran

By Salman Mugsi • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

America is using mainly English soldiers in Iraq with its own soldiers and taking massive help of NATO forces in the Afghanistan, and now it intends and has planned to use Israel to attack the Iran. For Pakistan, it has got Indian in the store. With no burden at all on it’s exchequer and with [...]