Monthly Archive:: May 2011
Farhat Taj’s rebuttal to Ejaz Haider’s misleading information on Taliban: More misleading information — I —Farhat Taj Mr Haider’s most misleading information about the Ali Khels is that the Pakistani state supported their resistance to the Taliban. The fact is that the state abandoned the Ali Khels by design
Social media and Pakistan: prospects and possibilities – by Raza Rumi: Related post: LUBP agenda, visitor stats and the way forward When I started to blog, almost by accident, a few Pakistani bloggers were found in cyberspace. Within half a decade the number has multiplied beyond belief. From the senior
Nawaz League and Sindhi Nationalists: From airport to my hotel I observed some green flags in hands of 18 million of Pakistani nation. Around 10 (million) were with green flags in their hands on motorbikes, 5 (million) on cars and remaining 3 people (million)
Judiciary’s confrontation with democracy – by Chitaan Janjal: With the entrance of Asif Ali Zardari to corridors of Powers, all the hell broke loose. Establishment is annoyed, right wing political parties are in ire and Media is blowing fire against him. The remaining deficiency is bridged up
Assessing PML-N and PPP’s response in the aftermath of the Abbottabad Operation: Related post: ISI mobilizes fake civil society to defend Pakistani generals While Nawaz Sharif’s bold stance on an independent commission to investigate the circumstances in which Osama bin Laden was found in a compound in Abbottabad and also his
The GHQ has got it wrong! -by Khaled Ahmed: The Pakistan Army has turned Pakistan isolatiaonist on the principle of ghairat (honour). Everyone knows it runs the country’s foreign and security policies. Look closely enough and you will find that it runs practically everything. The TV channels emphasising
Did Chaudhry Nisar take General Pasha to task? -by Fawad Manzoor: Media was showing as if Mr. PML-N Chaudhry Nisar took generals to task but it appears generals took air out of Mr. PML-N’s balloon. So much for fiery speeches of Nawaz, Shabaz, Nisar & their media touts. Chaudhry Nisar
Pakistan’s jihadi section of media mourns Osama bin Laden: by Shoaib Adil Originally published in the ‘Daily AajKal’
Human rights report: 2010 a ‘cataclysmic year’ for Pakistan, says Amnesty -by Saba Imtiaz: Unprecedented flooding, extrajudicial killings, terrorism and attacks on journalists in Pakistan are summarised in Amnesty International’s 2011 report ‘The State of the World’s Human Rights’, which was released on Friday. The report paints a grim picture of the state
Obama administration is divided over future of U.S.-Pakistan relationship -by Karen DeYoung and Karin Brulliard: Two weeks after the death of Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration remains uncertain and divided over the future of its relationship with Pakistan, according to senior U.S. officials. The discovery of the al-Qaeda leader in a city near
Jahan panah tusi great ho, tohfo qabul karo!: Related post: Questions for General Pasha (Part I) Nawaz Sharif’s commendable stance on Pakistani generals’ Abbottabad debacle پارلیمنٹ کے ان کیمرہ سیشن کی متفقہ قرارداد پیش نظر ہے. پاکستان کی سیاسی ڈکشنری میں جن اصطلاحات سے مجھے چڑ ہے
Is it a time for soul-searching in Pakistan? – by Rusty Walker: Related post: To the honourable generals of Pakistan army – by Rashid Aurakzai After Friday’s suicide bombing in Charsadda by the Pakistan’s Taliban, the first major attack to avenge Osama bin Laden’s death, Pakistanis should be alerted to
Pakistan: Taliban vs Osama -by Inam R Sehri: Who are the Taliban and why they are there? Pakistan has suffered a lot during the last ten years on this account. Pondering upon the history of Taliban’s making, it may be note worthy that Mullah Omer had started
ISI chief had lips sealed when quizzed about Osama bin Laden -by Amir Mir: Almost three weeks before Osama bin Laden was killed by a US military raid in Abbottabad, the heads of Pakistan and American intelligence agencies spent most of their meetings talking about the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted man
Press: In chains of another kind -by Waseem Altaf: The first attempt on media and free speech in Pakistan was made by Mr. Liaqat Ali Khan and associates when they tried to black out some passages of the Aug. 11, 1947 speech of Mohammad Ali Jinnah before the
Zero Coverage by Pakistani Media to Pres. Zardari’s Visit to Russia- by Saad Mansoor: The President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari embarked on a historic tour of the Russian Federation on 11 May 2011. This was a historic three day state visit, first by a Pakistani head of state or government in over
Kidneys for sale: A rebuttal to Ejaz Haider – by Rashid Aurakzai: A new propaganda genre is churned by our ‘Security Intellectuals’. The misleading term ‘civil-military equation or imbalance’ is in vogue. The term not only takes our military’s usurpation for granted but also tends to assume that they should share
Why no outcry on torturing tyrants of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia? – by Robert Fisk: Related articles: LUBP Archive on Bahrain Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants? Christopher Hill, a former US secretary of state for east Asia who was ambassador to Iraq – and usually a very obedient and un-eloquent American diplomat
Questions for General Pasha: If I have to comment on ISI chief’s emotional speech in the in-camera session of the parliament, I can say this via Mirza Ghalib: roney se aur ishq mey beybaak hogay, dhoey gaye hum aisey ke bas pak hogay
Punjab: Christian student nurse forced to convert to marry Muslim man: Lahore – A 24-year Christian woman from southern Punjab was abducted by a Muslim man who, after forcing her to convert to Islam, also forced her to marry him. Although her family filed a formal report of kidnapping, the
Some questions about Imran Khan’s PTI NA-USA LLC – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: My article earlier this week titled “Imran Khan’s financial credibility?” has not gone down well with his supporters, his fan club members and all those who believe he is a ‘messiah’ for Pakistan. After reading comments and attacks on
ISI mobilizes fake civil society to defend Pakistani generals: Related posts: General Pasha in Pakistan’s parliament: Jahan panah tusi great ho, tohfa qabul karo! Questions for General Pasha (Part I) To the honourable generals of Pakistan army – by Rashid Aurakzai Nawaz Sharif’s commendable stance on Pakistani generals’
Dawood Ibrahim son’s wedding in Pakistan: Related Article: Five majors of Pakistan army amongst India’s most-wanted list Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s son, Moin, would get married in Pakistan and not in Dubai. The number of guests from across the world has been reduced drastically to
A brief history of Pakistan’s ISI and its current policies – by Declan Walsh: Whose side is Pakistan’s ISI really on? It has been accused of supporting al-Qaida and double-dealing with the CIA. At the same time the ISI, Pakistan’s powerful intelligence service, is being targeted by Islamist extremists. In the wake of
LHC bars President Zardari from politics: Another great decision by SLOP: Related article: Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry: The new monkey in Lahore Supreme League of Pakistan SLOP’s provincial head’s another great decision in which the full quorum of SLOP’s provincial body directed Mr. President to surrender office of PPP’s co-chairperson
OBL fiasco: the buck stops with the military —by Dr Mohammad Taqi: The key issue is that the security establishment has shown no signs of course correction so far. From the bluster about a befitting response to a future Abbottabad-style attack to the attempted outing of the CIA’s Islamabad station chief,
An independent Commission is imperative to investigate Osama debacle -by Arshad Mahmood: This article was originally published in the ‘Daily AajKal’.
Nawaz Sharif’s commendable stance on Pakistani generals’ Abbottabad debacle: Related posts: General Pasha in Pakistan’s parliament: Jahan panah tusi great ho, tohfa qabul karo! Questions for General Pasha (Part I) To the honourable generals of Pakistan army – by Rashid Aurakzai ISI mobilizes fake civil society to defend
US incursion in Pakistan: Dear readers, I had written this piece around four years ago in 2007 but there was no suitable forum such as LUBP to share those of my views. At that time Civil Society assembled, played in hands of military
Five majors of Pakistan army amongst India’s most-wanted list: Five Pakistan Army majors are among the list of the top-ten most wanted terrorists wanted from the neighbouring country by India. The list of 49 most-wanted fugitives in Pakistan, handed over with dossiers by Indian Home Secretary G K
On the USA-Pakistan army alliance: Sleeping with the enemy? – by Rashid Aurakzai: Like a rabbit popping out of a magician’s empty hat, Osama bin Laden (OBL) was not ‘smoked out’ of any cave in Afghanistan but right from under CIA’s 63 year old strategic partner’s Sandhurst, Abbottabad. Capitol hill and Pentagon
Aye watan ke sajeeley jarnailo!!!: Disclaimer: The poem is about the Generals not the Jawaans of Pakistan Armed forces, who have sacrificed their lives fighting in the war games inflicted upon them by the Generals pursuing hyper-extension of their strategic influence, causing millions of
To the honourable generals of Pakistan army – by Rashid Aurakzai: In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden’s discovery by the US commandos in a Safe House in the garrison town of Abbottabad, it feels as if we, Pakistanis, are going through a horrible dream of being naked in public.
The hypocrisy of “we want to hold you to your own principles of due process” – by Harbir Singh Nain: The internet has filled with hand wringing about Osama not getting a trial. I get that we all would have felt better that our principles had been upheld if had not been shot on sight, but I am beginning
Post-OBL Pakistan: Why doesn’t coward Zardari bell the fauji-jihadi cat? – by Mahvish Afridi: While some sincere friends as well as some die-hard haters of the PPP are currently advising the Zardari-Gilani government to ‘make full use of the rare window of opportunity’ by questioning and undermining the GHQ-Al-Qaeda collusion, it is important
Imran Khan’s financial credibility? – by Ahmed Iqbalabadi: Imran Khan, the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf keeps roaring on the money of political leaders abroad and how that is affecting our country’s development. Imran Khan is known to be a person of means, and this I am quite