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India is Poised to Take over Af-Pak War Theatre

By A Khokar • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Once again the US divisive rhetoric of ‘Quetta shura’ is in spin which indicates that US is now all out to push her Afghanistan war inside Pakistan. Pak government has expressed its ‘surprise’ at the latest volatile interview of US Ambassador Anne W Patterson and said that there was clearly a “huge disconnect” between Washington [...]



Cut that Last Tree Branch where they Perch to Alight

By A Khokar • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The war on terror declared by USA after the incident of 9/11 was ultimately brought to our western borders under the pretext that US lead NATO forces were fighting Al Qaeda and were chasing this stateless organisation declared as enemy by United States that it was allegedly using the god forsaken territory of FATA in [...]



Will US let Pak Army be crowned for Victory in Waziristan?

By A Khokar • Nov 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After incident of 911, US declared an all out war against terror in our region against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. There was the time when  war was seen drawing nearer to our western borders that Al Qaeda was allegedly using our FATA territory as their sanctuaries. Reportedly Al Qaeda was carrying out their subversive activities [...]



Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People

By A Khokar • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There has always been in American foreign policy circles, a virus called ‘arrogance’, caused by the hereditary assumption that Americans know better than others. Surprisingly, this does not always prove the case, but the condition seems highly resistant to treatment, even by experience.
There seems a high probability that the disease has struck Obama administration policy [...]



And Then They Came For Me

By A Khokar • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Features

So; here we are; our brethren from and across the Khyber -Hindukush ranges are again gathering momentum by joining hands with enemies of Pakistan by carrying out their subversive activities to destabilize us and are all out to eventually take over this land of our dreams by deceit and their chicanery. The intensive bomb blast [...]



Clash Of The Titans

By Muhammad Ali Sajjad • Aug 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Author’s note: It was the post By Maria Sultan on Aug 17th, 2009 under the title “7000 American Marines in Islamabad ???” that prompted me to write this article.
Where It All Began And The Previous Attempts:
Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities has always been a cause of major concern for the Western countries, particularly the USA. And there have [...]



The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

By A Khokar • Aug 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics

This was 14 August, our Independence day.  Day passed hung between despair and hope—in tears and laughter, full of emotions and enthusiasm. I was thinking that Pakistan is an Ideological State. The theorist set forth the rules that in ideological states it is a system of beliefs or ideas which, operates through “ideological State apparatuses” [...]



Shifting Sands

By A Khokar • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

 If we take the usual defamatory rhetoric in the press about President Pervez Musharraf out—- that the man availed a lateral entry to come to the power and took an infamous action of U-Turn after incident of 9/11 but reality is that there he was who ruled us for eight long years as a President [...]



Hamid Gul: Nothing But The Truth

By A Khokar • Jun 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The former Pakistan intelligence service ISI chief, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, probably is the most hated Pakistani general in the West’s mainstream media. Interestingly, his views about the US are no different than the views of the two celebrated Zionist American Jews, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and professor Noam Chomsky.
“America is the [...]



It’s Time to Strike the Right Cord

By A Khokar • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There seems to be lot of confusion regarding Tehrik e Taliban-Pakistan (TTP) and it status. One is amazed to know that how a ‘copy cat’ bunch disguise as Taliban is allowed to operate along our western border especially in Dir and Swat areas– so freely. They are posing, as some medieval colonial provosts is holding [...]