Article Archive for February 2012
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Lt. Gen. Khalid Rabbani, who is the Commander of the Peshawar Corps, which is operating in the troubled Pakistani provinces of NWFP and FATA, praised the local tribesmen for helping the army to fight the …
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When Peter Oborne first arrived in Pakistan, he expected a ’savage’ backwater scarred by terrorism.
Years later, he describes the Pakistan that is barely documented – and that he came to fall in love with.
It was …
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No question of independence or separation.
The Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) has joined the rising tide of voices warning that the situation in Balochistan is grim, and called upon the government to hold meaningful negotiations with “legitimate …
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Akhtar Jamal
Islamabad—The recent un-publicized visit of an Israeli intelligence team led by MOSSAD chief to New Delhi and ongoing liaison with top Indian spymasters are seen here as a new plot to destabilize Pakistan and …
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Poverty in some of the eastern states of India where insurgencies are raging because of the discriminative attitude of the Brahman rulers is far greater. Even in the economically and militarily strongest country USA, there …
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Jama’at-ud-Dawa has strongly condemned the sectarian attack on a bus in the northern Pakistani district of Kohistan, terming it as an attempt to ignite sectarian conflict.
Posting on the social media site Twitter, the JuD spokesman …
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Breaking the myth of ‘Holy-Cow’ of Pakistan, Ahmedi Propaganda against Religous organizations and biased media reports.
Ahmed Sulaiman, February 28th, 2012
Few months ago, even before the Salala Attack, I heard about the Formulation of a platform …
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By Abdullah Khan, Director Conflict Monitoring Center Islamabad
Half-truth is always more dangerous than full lie. Unfortunately a section of our national media is telling half-truth about Baluchistan issue. The ‘truth tellers’ insist that the …
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PKKH Exclusive
In what seems to be a hapless event for the victims is but an outrageous and a preposterous one for the local community and women of Pakistan, who have long striven for their …
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By Raja G Mujtaba
On last Thursday, S M Hali conducted a debate on PTV with Air Marshal Shahid Latif and Ahmed Qureshi on the panel. It did cover a major area but there is lot …
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For the first time since 2001, Afghan Taliban, police, army, Shia, Pashtun, Uzbek and Turkmen are united against American occupation. What does this mean for us in Pakistan?
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistanis are too busy in their messy …
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Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan, police said, as anti-Western fury deepened over the burning of the Koran at a NATO base.
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ISLAMABAD: US stymied a planned official apology over the November 26 attack, The New York Times reported on Friday.
According to their report, the US had arranged for General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs …
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By NATHAN HODGE
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials visited the capitals of all five Central Asian republics this week amid a broader diplomatic push to negotiate new transportation agreements that will enable the military to withdraw from Afghanistan when the …
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Mansoor Ijaz along with his wife arrived at the Pakistan High Commission in London on the third day of recording his testimony with a judicial commission probing the Memogate scandal, Express News reported Friday.
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KABUL: The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases and kill Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of the Holy Quran at NATO’s main base in the country as a third …
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I reached Shamsi airbase along with several other journalists and senior Pakistan Air Force officials, to inspect the 36 new F-16 C Block 52 fighters. We were accompanied by General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Chief …
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WASHINGTON: Shortly before the United States ended a two-month pause in missile strikes on militants in Pakistan last month, senior US officials telephoned their Pakistani counterparts and told them Washington would be resuming its covert …
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ISLAMABAD – After Special US envoy Marc Grossman, General James N Mattis, the chief of US Army’s Central Command (CENTCOM), who was supposed to visit Pakistan a few days ago, has also advised by the …
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A few years ago, while still in college, I attended a talk by Robert Fisk, the Middle East Bureau Chief for The Independent in UK.
He was in his usual Fisk-ian form. Lambasting western journalists for their …
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As a US lawmaker tabled bill in the House of Representatives, espousing self-determination for Balochistan, Pakistani media has been airing string of programmes and holding debates on the issue with several Baloch leaders sharing their …
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ISLAMABAD – A large number of people protested against the US policies on Monday as they gathered under the umbrella of Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) in the heart of federal capital Monday.
The lively and charged crowd …
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani navy took delivery Tuesday of two state-of-the-art, US-made surveillance aircraft nine months after militants destroyed two similar planes, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD:After a lapse of twelve months, Karim Khan has resurfaced to haunt US defence officials in Pakistan with legal action for killing his son and brother in a drone strike.
Early this month, Khan filed …
