General Kayani: Honour and dignity first? -by Arshad Mahmood: Related Article: Gen Kayani, forget honour and prosperity, save our lives from your Taliban partners This article was originally published in the ‘Daily AajKal’

Osama Bin Laden and Pakistan in Perspective from the U.S. – by Rusty Walker: Related Articles: Why did ISI dispose of Osama Bin Laden? – by Mahvish Afridi Bin Laden Killed in a joint operation?? Take a Bow Mr President Bin Laden’s death, Pakistan’s counterpunch to the United States – by Shiraz Paracha

Question to Jang/Geo: It is fair to say that the most innocent in Pakistan are the media and their masters who treat them as puppets. We have the likes of Syed Talat Hussain, Javed Chaudhry, Hamid Mir, Ansar Abbasi, Kamran Khan, Mushtaq

LUBP News Room – May-July 2011: The aim of the “LUBP Newsroom” is to provide a corner to critical readers and media monitors to share interesting news, links to recent events and offer their views. This section is archived and updated on a regular basis

A commodity called security: In the last few months, especially after the manner in which the Raymond Davis matter unfolded, I have been saying to friends that Pakistan (unfortunately) has a commodity to sell called “Security” which is now not going to be

Pakistan did its part -by Asif Ali Zardari: Pakistan, perhaps the world’s greatest victim of terrorism, joins the other targets of al-Qaeda — the people of the United States, Britain, Spain, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Yemen, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Algeria — in our satisfaction that

Osama’s Death: Fact or Fiction – by D. Asghar: Like many when the news alert of Osama’s death popped on my Blackberry, I said, “Good Riddance.” The snippets of news started to trickle in. Initially CNN said in its alert, it was in Afghanistan. I sighed and said,

Who are the Hizb ut-Tahrir? – by Khalid Bilal: Why violent Hiaz ut tehrir is able to publish and distribute these leaflets [on very good quality glazed paper] despite being banned? Why its websites are not banned? If PTCL can ban Baloch websites why not Jihadi websites? Is

Take a Bow Mr President: Where President Zardari said to Americans he wanted the big fish *. He was right on money. He knows better than anyone else that his Military is more independent than the post war German army in Weimar Republic. He

Thank you Raymond Davis – by Mahvish Afridi: Thank you, Raymond Davis! The honour (ghairat) brigade in Pakistani media (sponsored by Aabpara) had presented CIA Operative Raymond Davis as an insult to Pakistan’s national honour and security. However, yesterday’s (May 1, 2011) surgical operation by the US

OBL’s death: Did the US threat work? Is it going to reap benefits in near future?: Not many people like The Friday Times’ editor Najam Sethi especially on LUBP. I am not too much of a fan of his commentary but his weekly paper does come up with some information that gives insights to the

Bin Laden’s death, Pakistan’s counterpunch to the United States – by Shiraz Paracha: After losing the 2004 presidential elections, US Senator John Kerry said that one video message of Osama bin Laden cost him the presidency. Days before the 2004 elections, bin Laden in a video message urged the US public not

Condolences to Taliban apologist, Imran Khan, on the death of Osama Bin Laden – by Maula Bux Thadani: First of all, let me congratulate all Muslims, all Pakistanis, all Americans, all peace loving people on this planet (who want to live a life free of terror) on the death of the most vile and most dangerous terrorist

Wiser fiscal management : Better utilisation of our foreign exchange reserves – by Ali Wahab: Source: Express Tribune Published: May 2, 2011 Here is a crude fact: the inter-corporate circular debt hovers around Rs200-250 billion. Another fact that we are unwilling to acknowledge is that tax reforms are not moving forward. Forget about direct

Bin Laden Killed in a joint operation??: Editor’s note: Finally United States has killed Osama. The details are not clear yet but it seems Osama Bin Laden was killed in a missile attack on a compound in the city of Abbottabad, a place of huge military

Cliched criticism of the PPP government – by Shah Hussain Lahori: In my recent interactions with fellow bloggers and other civil society activists, both the homogeneity and staleness of their criticism against the current government raised cause for concern. Their clichéd view of both the situation and the way forward

Adil Najam presents the Pasha Theory to confront the Raisani Theory – by Shah Hussain Lahori: SHAME: A leading (LEADING) FCS (fake civil society) blog which never posted a single piece condemning Baloch genocide by Pakistan army and its proxies has written an article objecting on the size of Balochistan cabinet The FCS blog is

PPP and PML-Q talks: Chauhdry Nisar and Shahbaz have a meeting in Rawalpindi?: While PPP and PML-Q leadership were busy in a meeting to finalising the power sharing formula, all the eyes as always were on the Presidential palace. Enthusiastic reporters were officiously covering the event and TV actors hosting the entertainment

Meet the target killers – by Afaq Sharif: Related articles: Target Killings The following are two video reports of interrogation of two arrested target killers by the Karachi police. It may be noted that these arrests were made by the CID Police headed by SSP Chaudary Aslam

Pakistan: ISI ousted Bhutto? – by Inam R. Sehri: Now a days much proclaimed news in the media from Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yusaf raza Gilani that ‘we are with our ISI; their functions and operations have government backing’ (Ref: media news of 28th April 2011). Till the recent past

A Lasting Solution for Balochistan – By Malik Siraj Akbar: While the Chief of Army Staff General Parvez Ashfaq Kayani’s announcement to replace PA soldiers with the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) in Balochistan’s gas-rich town of Sui indicates a significant policy change on part of the military, it would

LUBP must stop defending Zardari League (ZPPP) – by Laibaah: As things stand now, your defense of the Zardari league that PPP has become is very disappointing. I have been following your blog for some time and and have even emailed and DMed my views to your editors and

Gen Kayani, forget honour and prosperity, save our lives from your Taliban partners: Related articles: Finally, ISI openly blockades Shias in Kurram to enforce their subservience to Taliban Thank you, General Kayani. Your good Taliban kill 18 Shia, abduct 45 in Hangu President Zardari, Is Kurram Agency a part of Pakistan? Shia

khuda ka zikr kare zikre amreeka na kare? – by Zalaan: Related article: Case of bogus science – By Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy قدرتی آفات ،عذاب یا امریکی ہارپ امریکا میں تیز ہواؤں اور ٹورنیڈو کی زد میں آکر تین سو افراد ہلاک ہو گئے ،یہ خبر سن کر انٹرنیٹ کے

US Commission accuses Pakistan of failing to protect minorities: This year, according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom USCIRF report, 14 countries were designated as countries of particular concern (CPC) since “those governments have engaged in — or tolerated — particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”