A dentist campaigning for him last week had an Op-ed in the Express Tribune about the Drones, it was a desperate effort to prove that Drones are the main reason of growing militancy, when I asked about the jet bombing he didnt reply. And he will never, as Drones are the tools of silencing the strategic assets…

@Ali Arqam, a Nazi dentist is featured as one of the main villians in a spy thriller, “Marathon Man” *ing Dustin Hoffman and Lawrence Olivier himself as the Nazi dentist.

Ver good dr. taqi. Good research and logically presented.

Role of Jang Group [do keep in mind that Jang always incite Clash and Fasad] Human Memory is short and in case of Liars Reporters/Journalists of Pakistan i.e. Mr. Shaheen Sehbai and Mr. Ansar Abbasi it is proven beoynd doubt that Allah snatch Memory from Liars because in the above news Jang Groups quotes and Intelligence Agency Report [read table story] whereas both of these Journalists indulged in Yellow Journalism to the core had themselves running an Election Campaign for Mr Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry by filing reports about the same Sindhi Nationalists, read How Mr. Shaheen and Mr. Ansar incited Ethnic Hate themselves through Daily Jang/The News International and GEO TV.
Jang Group/Express News VS Sindhi Community.
http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2010/04/jang-groupexpress-news-vs-sindhi.html

what about Zardari’s statement that he is open to talks with Taliban? what happened to him now? either he has no understanding of the matter or he is clever enough to change his opinion according to that of US & UK? After having wasted almost a decade in Afghanistan with no success, US & Nato forces have realized that continuous war is no solution and they should proceed with negotiations. Interestingly, Imran Khan predicted all this. You may call it a chance happening or you may credit him with having a foresight of a leader. But it would be better for imran haters to stop being losers and start analyzing the situation properly with open mind & factual information.

GEO TV its team of goebbles !
http://criticalppp.com/archives/28921

You are just an asshole dr Taqi

Lot can be said about various political parties, specially on the verge of literally raping them of their acts and deed. My voice to all writers and journalists is that if you have the weapon which is mightier than all-Pen, then stop mass murdering the views and thoughts of people who have no to low insight. Create awareness on making a movement for building a better nation. E.G if there is so much coal as we all claim lets raise some money and set up a power plant. if we can do it for building hospitals, schools and various other projects why not this cause which is for our future.
Dear writers you seem no less than a dirty politician who corrupts minds and views of people who are week to believe.

Who knew that Pakistani neo-cons existed but obviously they do.

I expect to read such drivel from neo-cons authors messers Daniel Pipes, or some Fox News luminaries or maybe hear this sort of rant on the Glenn Beck show but this piece is hyperbole at its best.

Khan’s article in the Telegraph was merely echoing the same opinion about Benazir’s flawed and at times deeply regressive politics that scholars such as John Esposito and William Darylmple hold.

And let’s get real, have you even read the PTI manifesto? It contains nothing objectionable in it. Universal education for all and human rights for all, with intra-party democracy which other Pakistani parties don’t even speak about.

And let’s not be naive let’s be real – Talibanization and the increase appeal of radicalism has increased dramatically since American intervention. Sure Pakistani society was fertile for radicalism to blossom but American involvement always makes things worse.
Even the former CIA chief Graham Fuller is saying the same things as Imran Khan, in his article- ”Obama’s Policies Making Situation Worse in Afghanistan and Pakistan”.

Come on Taqi and Pak neo-cons let’s get real – the last eight years have been a disaster in Afghanistan and the chaos unleashed there has spilled over into Pakistan. Even American scholars are admitting this.

Can we think of a single American intervention that has worked? And this is not a pot-shot against the American nation but a critique of neo-conservative foreign policy. This is the crucial distinction to make – our quarrell should not be with the American people but with American neo-conservative ideology.
The Afghan and Iraq wars I believe are not representative of what the American public wanted but is merely a neo-conservative agenda.

I for one like Taqi will not peddle neo-conservative nonsense. Even prominent neo-cons of the past such as Francis Fukuyama have realised that American interference has produced more harm than good:

” they [the neo-cons] believed that history can be pushed along with the right application of power and will. Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practiced by the United States. Neoconservatism, as both a political symbol and a body of thought, has evolved into something I can no longer support. ”

Fukuyama the former intellectual darling of neo-cons has understood that American military interference only fans the sentiments of anti-Americanism (and Fukuyama himself admits this is a natural and legitimate response that has nothing to do with being a radical).

Just read Fukuyama’s articles ”After Neoconservativism” and ”America’s self-defeating hegemony”.

Those articles are exactly the points that Khan makes ; I don’t know why so many Pakistani liberal writers it seems flirt with neo-conservative ideology when even liberals in the West agree that American policy in Afghanistan has fuelled the flames of radicalism.
I’ll end with a quote from Graham Fuller:

”Today the U.S. military presence is perhaps the single most inflammatory element in politics across the region. The American military response to this regional challenge only serves to exacerbate it. Sadly, Pakistan is now swift on the heels of Iraq and Afghanistan in heading toward increased civil strife and bitter anti-American emotions.”

It is utterly shameless and gutless for so called ”libearls” to peddle the neo-conservative narrative of foreign policy like Taqi has done.
Comparing Khan to Goebbels – we have our very own neo-cons in Pakistan.

Operation Cyclone constructed with the help of prominent policy maker Zbigniew Brzezinski poured money into the sort of initiatives that Taqi talks about in his article.

From the TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE ( I make it a point to quote western sources on this sensitive issue to convince our neo-con friends in Pakistan) ”Oily Americans”:
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And the CIA began one of its longest and most expensive covert operations, supplying billions of dollars in arms to a collection of Afghan guerrillas fighting the Soviets. The arms shipments included Stinger missiles, the shoulder-fired, antiaircraft weapons that were used with deadly accuracy against Soviet helicopters and that are now in circulation among terrorists who have fired such weapons at commercial airliners. Among the rebel recipients of U.S. arms: Osama bin Laden.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,450997-92,00.html#ixzz1KuLDy6jr'‘

Imran Khan is not saying this, but a prominent American magazine. As I said our quarrel should not be with the good people of America but their hopeless neo-conservative ideologues.

But Mr Brzezinski in a revealing interview in October 2001 was still unrepentant (which really gives you an idea of how hopelessly short termist American foreign policy is):

””””Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
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Well Mr Brzezinski those ”stirred up – Moslems ” are more than just stirred up.

I would advise all Pakistani neo-cons to read in depth the material published by American neo-cons themselves and the critical investigative reports from mainsteram Western publications.

What Imran Khan is saying is nothing new, in fact what Imran Khan says is deeply unoriginal. In the West, most Europeans and sensible American observers agree wholeheartedly with Khan’s analysis.

Khan has never endorsed the values or policies of the religious right, but he finds there is a coincidence of principle on this specific issue.

If Imran Khan came out and said he is against universal education for women and he is against minorities having human rights or that the blasphemy law is right then I would believe Khan is an extremist.

But since Khan has never endorsed any other principle of the religious right and is only agreeing with them on this one singular principle we cannot accuse Khan of extremism. It is merely a coincidence of principle.
Khan has never renounced his human rights agenda, his agenda of universal education, intra party democracy or other critical and fundamental liberal values.
Until then Khan has successfully merged a liberal discourse with a strong anti-imperialist discourse.
While the PPP has failed on both counts.

the academic evidence and empirical research does not confirm your thesis and actually lends support to Imran’s claims of escalation post 90s.

The study, ”Suicide Terrorism: Development and Characteristics”indicates the following:

Number of attacks
Tamil Tigers 171
Hezbollah and Amal 25
Other lebanese groups 25
Hamas 22
PKK 21
Islamic Jihad 8
Chechen separatists 7
Dawa (Kuwait) 2
Egyptian Islamic Jihad 1
al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya 1
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria 1

Also Robert Pape’s, ”Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”points to similar conclusions.
Let me give a further example. from the SATP monitor:
In 2002, 15 were killed and 34 injured by suicide attacks.

Now in 2010, 1167 were killed and 2199 were injured.
So let’s get real and accept that domestic weaknesses in our society are a factor but so is American involvement. The two are linked.

http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/database/Fidayeenattack.htm

The source I used.

I agree that Zia’s rule is a critical factor to take note but so is the Afghan war and American interference.
From the SATP website I quote this brief description:

http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/backgrounders/index.html

”The process of Islamisation of the State and the Afghan war were turning points in the role of Islamic orthodoxy in Pakistan. This also brought into Pakistan a more codified and strict Wahabi Islam from Saudi Arabia. The role of Pakistan as frontline state, serving American interests in the war against Communist Soviet Union, led to a major fall out for Pakistan and its society.
America stopped its campaign to check the growth and export of heroin in the wake of larger strategic interests, which had a catastrophic impact on Pakistani society. The number of drug users in Pakistan today stands at 3. 2 million. This was one of the major offshoots of active involvement in the Afghan crisis and the state’s decision, in the early eighties, to be a conduit for Western weapons bound for the war in Afghanistan.

There have been a number of consequences of this involvement in Afghanistan, and many of these have fostered violent internal conflicts in Pakistan. They include:

The migration of Afghan refugee groups to major urban regions of Pakistan added to antagonisms within the Pakistani society, especially in Karachi where ethnic strife increased.
The shift in the Afghan movement where Pakistan began backing rabidly pro-Islamic elements after the Afghan movement had failed to arrive at a pro-Pakistan and pro-Saudi solution gave a fillip to Islamists in Pakistan.
The establishment of a powerful network of militant madarssas, originally set up to train volunteer ‘students’ – Taliban – for the war in Afghanistan. These madarsas combined weapons training with a fundamentalist and violent interpretation of Islam. The ‘victory’ of the Taliban in Afghanistan has freed substantial numbers of these ‘students’, as well as their motivators and mentors; who are now progressively turning their attention to other areas of conflict, including Pakistan itself.
Drug trafficking which was encouraged for the short-term motive of financing the Afghan resistance movement and which, now, is the most important source of finance for most militant groups. ”