Like other areas of the unsettled tribal region and the settled areas of Swat valley, the scenic Bajaur area is overflowing with lush green rolling fields and majestic peaks. It’s beauty was tainted with the terrorism, but now after perseverance of the Pakistan military, things are back to normal once again, and the locals are [...]
The national community of Pakistan has got a great role to play in order to ensure a sustainable, lasting and fruitful framework to chalk out a well-structured economic development agenda for the war-torn FATA and PATA regions of Pakistan, which are rich in beauty but also in the ruthless grip of poverty and the remains [...]
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 [...]
It’s not that I am missing them, but I am just curious. Though for few days there have been no suicide bombings anywhere in Pakistan including the lawless FATA and PATA region and not in the Peshawar city which is so easily accessible to the terrorists, but the fear and uncertainty is still there.
This is [...]
Whether anyone admit or understand it or not, there are good and bad Taliban. Every nation has its full right to assert and protect its own interest. We have done plenty of interest-serving to the Americans and now enough is enough and now its time that we should also look towards our own interests.
Due to [...]
In morning, as the next day starts, the people of Pakistan morbidly wait for any news of suicide attack in any part of the country. The people of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore feel it more gravely. But the people of Peshawar take it for granted that they could be the next target.
It is said that [...]
Reporting from Sargodha, Pakistan - One by one, recruits from Pakistan’s Punjab heartland would make the seven-hour drive to Waziristan, where they would pull up to an office that made no secret of its mission.
The signboard above the office door read “Tehrik-e-Taliban.” In a largely ungoverned city like Miram Shah, there was no reason [...]
The declaration of “Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order 2009” has not only fulfilled the longstanding demand of the people of Northern Areas for self-rule on the lines of AJK type of governance, it will also frustrate the nefarious designs of Indian external strike in Northern Areas. It is beyond doubt that the Northern Areas of [...]
The final and decisive showdown on this war against terror in Pakistan is about to be staged in the South Waziristan region of FATA. The main target of security forces in South Waziristan is Baitullah Mehsud. Baitullah is somewhere near Ladha area of South Waziristan and his 10,000+ militants are being led by Hakimullah Mehsud, [...]
It has now become routine for the US to focus on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons whenever there is trouble within the country. Clearly, the US has not recovered from its trauma of seeing a developing Muslim state acquire nuclear capability. Moreover, as one of the greatest proliferators since 1945 to Israel, the US has always maintained [...]
