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Posts Tagged ‘taliban’

Kurram Agency Genocide

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jul 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Do you know that Kurram Agency, which is the part of Pakistan is inaccessible from Pakistan and also the people from Kurram Agency cannot travel to the Pakistan? For two years, the main road of Parachinar is cut off and nobody can travel on it. If somebody has to go to rest of the Pakistan, [...]



Are We Heading Towards Victory Against Taliban ?

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jul 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Fear, disappointment, confusion, irresolution, and apathy is which mark our struggle agaisnt the terrorism crisis. Has it ended now? I fear not. Though our military establishment has certainly ceased to wallow in the indecision and they are after the terrorists with full might, rest of the factions are either acting like a sheep or they [...]



Shah Abdul Aziz : Crony of Baitullah Mehsud

By Altaf Khan • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

We should fasten the seat belts for more and more stunning revelation regarding on going war against terror in South Waziristan, Swat and other parts of the tribal regions. As Pakistani security forces get serious about this war and strike at the core of terrorists with full might, the intelligence is producing many shocking facts.
One [...]



Fierce Fighting

By Sher Ali • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The battlefields are hot, hotter than sun in Swat and South Waziristan. The jawans of Pakistan Army are sacrificing their lives but their resolve is to eliminate the butchers and barbarians who have put the survival of the country at stake and to make our lives once again tranquil and peaceful, without any existential threat [...]



Killer Buzzwords

By Engr. K. Shahzad • Jun 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Buzzwords stinks. Time to come to basics now. Hassan Nisar rightly pointed out in his interview with Dr. Shahid Masood that all they knew are 400 to 500 sentences and if we snatch these sentences out of their mouth these so called politicians couldn’t speak anymore. Why not to guess the governments through Buzzwords? Like to begin with



Third World War (Urdu Column)

By M Mirza • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


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 [...]



Can He Do It?

By Altaf Khan • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Nobody in his or her sane mood could trust the capacity, the commitment and the political will of the President. It’s not yet another Zardari  bashing post, rather it’s simply said to jot down that the widower of Benazir Bhutto is not up to the task and this has resulted in empowering the army chief [...]



Questions to Ask Before South Waziristan Battle

By Altaf Khan • Jun 23rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Has US and NATO be told in tough language that no Afghan or Indian interference will be tolerated from across the border?
Has the  border of Waziristan with the Afghanistan been sealed or at least largely brought into surveillance?
Does the Pakistan miliary have the capacity to sustain so many offensives simultaneously in such a vast area?
Is [...]



Get Baitullah Mehsud Mission

By Ali Yar Khan • Jun 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

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, [...]