Promoting Jihadi publications right under the nose of Pakistan govt: BBC report: BBC short news report describes how promotional material is being freely printed and distributed in Pakistan. The report shows that is one of the prime tools for recruitment of cheap zombie mercenaries. http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/multimedia/2013/08/130807_jehadi_literature_ra.shtml Clearly this type of publication cannot go
Collective Amnesia – by Khadim Hussain: A scene from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Nobel Prize winning novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, has vaguely remained my memory for a long time. The scene is about a gun battle in 1967 between liberals and conservatives in Macondo
دال میں کچھ کالا یا پوری دال ہی کالی ؟: ایک عجیب و غریب واقعہ جو ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان میں پیش آچکا ہے جہاں پر 150 لوگ چار گھنٹے شہر کے اندر، جیل کے اردگرد باردوی سرنگیں بچھا کر، بڑے ہتھیار سے مسلح ہوکر حملہ آور ہوتے ہيں اور
In denial on Abbottabad – Farahnaz Ispahani: The leaked report of the panel set up to look into the 2011 Osama bin Laden incident in Pakistan skips many hard questions including how the nation came to acquire a jihadi mindset Hours after U.S. Navy SEALs found
Recent attack on ISI office in Sukkur – by Nasir Dharejo: The ISI office is situated in a highly sensitive and protected area, the question is that, How a truck full of explosive could be able to penetrate such a secure location? General security to public is District Administration’s responsibility
نجم سیٹھی کے جھوٹ کے پاؤں کے ساتھ سر بھی غایب: نجم سیٹھی المعروف چڑیا والی سرکار – سابقہ نگران وفاقی وزیر اور نگران وزیر اعلی پنجاب اور موجودہ چیر من کرکٹ بورڈ یوں تو اپنی ” اندر ” کی خبروں ,” خفیہ سورسز ” سے حاصل ہونے والی ” خفیہ
ISI: Failing state within a state? – by Nadeem Saeed: “The ISI, no wonder, has lost control over both violent jihadi militant extremists on the one hand and the CIA special operatives on the other”, this startling observation about Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency is made in a leaked
Failing, Failing, Failed? – by Saroop Ijaz: The writer is a lawyer and partner at Ijaz and Ijaz Co in Lahore “We are a failing state even if we are not a failed state yet” thus spoke Lieutenant General (retd) Ahmad Shuja Pasha while talking to
Double Bind (Part 1) – by Waseem Altaf: While addressing 123rd PMA Long Course at Kakul, Abbotabad, on 23rd April 2011, General Kayani, the COAS informed that the backbone of terrorists had been broken. One thousand meters away in a fort-like structure, master terrorist Osama Bin Laden
In foreign hands – by Baloch Faryad and Nauroz Marri: It is not uncommon to come across an amalgam of politicians, analysts and journalists on national media posing and answering such vexing questions as what is happening in Balochistan and who is fueling the current unrest in Balochistan. Before
No evidence on who is doing bombings – by Riaz Malik Hajjaji: Editors note: It appears the State organs of Pakistan fully subscribe to the insightful analysis by Syed Riaz Al Malik Hajjaji. Just because a facist organization plans, repeatedly announces, admits and takes ownership of killing the shia community. This
نواز شریف کے نام محمد حنیف کا کھلا خط: پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ن) کے سربراہ میاں نواز شریف چودہ سال بعد تیسری بار پاکستان کے وزیر اعظم بن گئے ہیں۔ اس عرصے میں انھوں نے قید تنہائی کاٹی، جلاوطنی میں رہے، ایک بار ملک واپس آنے کی کوشش
An open letter to Hamid Mir – by Dr. Allah Nazar: Translated by Archen Baloch Dear Hamid Mir, I’m writing you this letter with the hope that perhaps the historians – standing in the witness box of history – of next century will reveal the truth about the oppressed Baloch nation and hold the colonial powers
HDP, electoral defeats and dirty politics – by Naqi. H.: The voters of PB-2 once again rejected Hazara Democratic Party in May 11 elections by electing Majlis-e Wahadat-e Muslimeen’s candidate. This was HDP’s second consecutive defeat in elections ever since it was made in 2003. But like 2008 defeat,
شیعہ نسل کشی اور سعودی فنڈنگ – از حق گو: سعودیہ میں اربوں رپے پاکستان میں لگائے ھیں صرف مدارسے کھولنے میں کوئی سے بھی دو پرجیکٹ بتادیں جس سے پاکستان کو بہت فائدہ ھوا ھو۔ دو بار مفت تیل دے دیا اور ساتھ میں ۳۲۰۰ مدرسے کھولدئے
Right Needs Wise Counsel: “AL QAEDA hardly exists here,” he said, “and what are called the Taliban are [our] own tribal people. The more we kill them, the more militants we produce.” Thus spoke PTI leader Imran Khan to BBC’s Islamabad reporter Orla
طالب زدہ …..قسط 8: جہاں تک میرا یقین ہے ، آئی ایس آئ دیو بندی خیالات سے متاثر یا دیوبندی سوچ رکھتا ہے ، جس کی وجہ یہ ہوسکتی ہے کہ دیوبندی مکتبہ فکر سے منسلک لوگوں میں جہادی سوچ زیادہ ہوتی ہے