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Pakistan’s 9/11

By Salman Mugsi • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

The horrendous attack on the Marriott Hotel Islamabad which resulted in massive death and loss is being termed as the 9/11 of Pakistan. First, it’s not the race of which blast and attack is more deadly and which is not, and secondly there have been more deadly and wide-scale attacks in Pakistan in different cities.
Just […]



What Was Going on in the Marriott Hotel?

By Ali Yar Khan • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in.
After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at […]



I shall need you My Son

By Capt(R)Dr Razahaider • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

What more can be done to an individual who is willfully and willingly acted to come to the battle field with the only option of survival.



Mullen Twisting Arms

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen has once again come running to Pakistan while sprouting flames from his nostrils, and he is about to meet Prime Minister (Yousuf Raza) Gilani and General (Ashfaq) Kayani to discuss ongoing operations in the border region with Afghanistan.
The tension is running high in the tribal […]



Why Not FATA Attacks Year Ago?

By Salman Mugsi • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has assured that the United States had assured Pakistan that it would not violate the country’s territory in future, though it’s another thing that United States doesn’t really care which territory belongs to Pakistan and which not, and in that “utter confusion”, Special Operations’ raid from Afghanistan into Pakistan are […]



Meetings of Minds at National Level

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The ongoing aerial and ground attacks of United States in the tribal regions of Pakistan are natural course of actions on the part and perspective of the United States and as the elections in United States come close, the intensity of such attacks would only increase to fuel up the bogey of Osama Bin Laden […]



US May Attack, But Pakistan Will Not Attack US

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Now that is what one call the loyal ally in the war against terror, and that is why George W. Bush always termed Pakistan as the favorite ally of America in the war against terror and that is why, Pakistan always maintained that it was not just the war of US, but it’s own war, […]



US Starts From North Waziristan

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

United States of America with its allies have started to attack Pakistani territory from the North Waziristan Agency and they are planning to advance steadily into other agencies and if needed into the Dir area and then to the Swat in the hot pursuit of the Talibans and the so-called Al-Qaeda.
Mike Mullen has already said […]



How to Retaliate to America

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Sep 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The third country is about to be engulfed by the US monster hawks in the name of war against terror, and the recent strings of attacks on the tribal region of Pakistan are just the start of it. The Americans violated the independence and sovereignty of Pakistan by landing their troops at Angoor Ada […]



Bush Replaces Musharraf with Zardari

By Salman Mugsi • Sep 13th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The brand new president of Pakistan, Janab Asif Ali Zardari has given the first gift to the Dubya of US by mounting the front line puppet of America by him during his maiden news conference in the presidential palace. Hamid Karzai, the no. 1 venom spewer against Pakistan even surpassing Indian counterparts was the man […]