As the Pakistani security forces advance from three sides into the South Waziristan Agency to strike at the core of the terrorism, the population of the agency leaves their homes and everything and getting displaced to the Dera Ismail Khan, the closest and most accessible region still largely unaffected by the fighting. , and [...]
“A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one, if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled…. That isn’t preventive war; that is war….. It seems to me that when, [...]
It goes without saying that the army action in the Malakand Division was necessary to stop the slaughtering of innocent people, the desecration of dead bodies and the blowing up of mosques and schools. These are unspeakable crimes and those who committed them must be brought to justice.
It also goes without saying that army action [...]
Best course of action would be that as the exodus starts from the South Waziristan into the NWFP, return of Malakand IDPs should start at the same time. This would not only save NWFP government and people from lots of pain and hassle. Camps are already there, and these camps have got rudimentary facilities barely [...]
