These goddamned BIMARU states will never improve in their lifetimes despite have a decent leadership in some. The whole system, including the bureaucracy and socio-centric schemes including compulsory education, employment and healthcare has to be shaken up and improved on a war-footing. These...
In NorthEast India, we never say to the Nagas or to the Mizos or to those ULFA terrorists that we will allow you to keep your arms. Nor do we say to them that you can have your own version of "NorthEastern sharia" law. Nor do we mount gunship helicopters and massacre them. All talks with them...
I find two points as to why the Taliban does not take Imran Khan seriously:-
1. Imran Khan had his "drone-fun-ride" stopped by the Army and not by the Tribal lashkars in Tank, which is in Waziristan which is far from being the hub of the Drones which is supposed to be North Waziristan ? This...
Talks with Taliban always proved disastrous: Farhat Taj
Friday, 15 March 2013 19:44by Adnan Farooq
Any durable solution to Taliban terror requires that Pakistan gives up the use of religion in state affairs. Also, it should give up Islamist proxies as foreign policy tools in Afghanistan and...
Pakistan: Myths and consequences.
by Omar Ali March 15, 2013 5:12 pm
The Islamic and irrationally anti-Indian elements in the self-image of the Pakistani state have led it down a self-destructive path.
Salman Rushdie famously said that Pakistan was insufficiently imagined. To say...
Interesting times ahead, so the "murtad" to some and "wajib-ul-qatal" to many is coming ; We might expect the same type of treatment meted out to Benazir and the situation will severely deteriorate the instant he sets foot on PureLand. The Baloch nationalists have declared a bounty of 12 Million...
Well, we all keep hearing this evidence presented to MMS at Sharm-el-Shaikh, but not a single statement has come from Pakistan after that. This is actually typical of the interview i saw of Shahzain Bugti, in which he's arrested by the FC, and the first question they ask him is, what is modus...
If we start going by what Mike Mullen has to say, and the notoriety of an event miles away from Kakul on one May midnight, then Saleh is totally justified about the statements he gives.
That looks more like a statement from Rehman Malik, who has been pratting on and on without a single shred of...
You talked about Saleh specifically, show me any source that said about his militias committing atrocities. The ones who did, i have mentioned earlier, were the Junbish commanders under Dostum, with little/no involvement of Dostum in that. And that is nothing in comparison to what the Taliban...
What he is ultimately, is the GAS, the exhaust outcome, white/blue/black is irrelevant !!! And yeah, shiver me timbers, he can blow me for all i care, i dish back in equal measure what I get.
That is humbug, his militia has never commited atrocities on the Pashtuns, the other members of the NA especially the Junbish commanders under Dostum who are virulently anti-Taliban massacred them in the pro-Taliban strongholds. But Dostum reversed that trend and even succumbed to Karzai's...
He's viciously hated by the Establishment, especially the Punjabis and a few Pashtuns on account of him being a Panjshiri and also because of his hate for the Taliban. The Establishment considers him the single greatest threat in the Afghan intelligentsia, and he has great support among Pashtuns...
This point sticks out like a sore thumb ; It should be more like raped the Chairman's brother's wife, and got his a$$ smoked by the President when the President's backyard was molotoved. Now an obedient student under the wing of the President and frequently disses off the Chairman, while the...
For Ikram Life in Pakistan occupied Kashmir Azad Kashmir
By markulyseas
From The Friday Times, Pakistans First Independent Weekly Newspaper -
The Azad in AJK smacks of oxymoronic rhetoric. Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) is neither a free territory, nor a province of Pakistan...
So if NM gets elected as PM tomorrow, and UK/US detains and imprisons him provided there is a UNSC declaration as a globally wanted Human rights violator, then should we allow the International laws to be suppressed for him ? If I was someone with integrity to uphold International Laws at any...
Let me tell you of an incident to the SupaPowa Chinese that happened in the Kosovo war. The CIA accidentally/deliberately which is debatable gave the coordinates of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade for NATO to bomb and in return all they got were a few million dollars in chump change and a token...