Articles with tag: taliban
The Land of The Pure
Raiya Hashmi Nov 20, 2009No corner,no street,no abode Stands safe from these merciless fiends
On the Waziristan Operation
Mehroz Sadruddin Nov 12, 2009 interacts: 44If the American and NATO forces do not undertake the requisite action along the Durand Line, then the impact of the achievements being attained by the Pakistan Army may be short-lived.
Pakistan Is Plagued By An Environment Of Distrust
Jasbir Sarai Nov 9, 2009 interacts: 3US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's ‘Charm offensive’ in Pakistan seems to have been a bit of a dampener.
Defeating the Taliban in Pakistan
Waleed Ziad Nov 3, 2009 interacts: 43Unless six key challenges of implementing aid in FATA are tackled, we’re wasting our tax dollars. And if we lose FATA, we lose this war.
Peace The Final Frontier
Taji M Nov 2, 2009 interacts: 8The operation in Waziristan is a very temporary solution, and its only aim should be to halt immediate attacks, but ultimately the peace has to be negotiated, whether we like to talk to Talibans or not.
Namal University, Another Landmark by ‘Taliban’ Khan
Ahmer Muzammil Oct 31, 2009 interacts: 20I don’t always agree with Imran Khan on politics but I have no doubt that his stances and his point of view are sincere and not colored with self-interest.
Waziristan Operation
Agha Amin Oct 17, 2009 interacts: 331If military operation could pacify any country there would have been no Vietnam or Afghanistan or even 50 plus expeditions into Waziristan since 1890s till to date.
The Creeping Menace: Taliban
Tariq Aqil Oct 17, 2009 interacts: 34Who are these fanatics? These mindless zombies always prepared to kill and be killed for their cause? Where did they come from? What motivates them? What is their objective and who supports and nurtures them?
Spaghetti Bowl Situation in Pakistan
Salman Aneel Oct 15, 2009 interacts: 7This series of terrorist attacks has left little options for the Government of Pakistan, but an army offensive against the militants in South Waziristan is an option that needs far more thought and frankly wisdom.
GHQ Attack-Serious Questions
Agha Amin Oct 13, 2009 interacts: 274The enemy is not in Waziristan or Afghanistan. The enemy is our own damn inefficiency and complacency. It merits serious thinking at all plains , tactical,operational and strategic.
What Will Happen if the USA Withdraws From Afghanistan
Agha Amin Sep 11, 2009 interacts: 173Any US withdrawal from Afghanistan would create another delusion. A false conclusion that Islam has won and USA lost. It would boost morale in the Islamists and would lead to far greater chaos.
Recalibrating The Moral Compass
Irfan Waheed Jul 23, 2009 interacts: 199As extremism has spread its tentacles across Pakistan, it has manifested itself in a familiar pattern. Barber shops are warned, and then blown up. Businesses selling music CDs are warned and then blown up.
The Plight of Internally Displaced Pakistanis in Swat
Shiraz Bashir Jul 9, 2009 interacts: 7More than 2.4 million people have been displaced in Swat valley and its neighboring districts of Dir and Buner. This is the fastest and largest displacement of people since the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
The Landlords of Defence To Pakistan's Defense
Salim Chauhan Jul 3, 2009 interacts: 160God bless General Naseerullah Babar, Benazir Bhutto, and the rest of them for sowing the seeds of the carnivorous plant that we now face in Swat, Buner, Dir, and, now, from what I hear, Saidu Sharif.
Media Besieged by Taliban in Pakistan
zafar sopoori Jun 8, 2009 interacts: 6..recent global survey about political rights and civil liberties, Pakistan was ranked as "Partly Free" and "Not Free" in the 2009 version of Freedom of the Press.
Martyred for Speaking Out Against the Taliban
Asif Naqshbandi Jun 13, 2009 interacts: 55The silent majority of ulama finally rises up against the Taliban
Is TALIBANIZATION a New Phenomenon?
Salman Aneel May 20, 2009 interacts: 511Media has been an effective tool in changing public opinion; earlier it was demonstrations against US drone attacks, but some clips of Talibans, beating a woman, slaughtering Pakistan army and people took a 360 degree turn.
Reasons for War in the Pakhtun Land
Pukhtoon Khan May 13, 2009 interacts: 40The situation in swat is not a local problem. It is the symptom of a bigger crisis in which Pakhtuns are going to be trapped due to neglecting the importance of sticking to the national interests of Pakhtun land.
No Quarter For Half Wits Please
Shandana Minhas May 18, 2009 interacts: 7Humanitarian disasters are bad because they kill people. Extremism is a menace because it kills people. Again I ask, why is there so much fuss about how we die and not how we live?
Demise of Pukhtoon Nation
Farhad Khan May 11, 2009 interacts: 99Pukhtoon is bleeding to death and all my fellow countrymen are standing and watching the sad demise of this nation, thinking that Americans and Talibaan will never knock at their doors!
Politics As Usual
Rashid Malik May 10, 2009 interacts: 4As hundreds of thousands flee the war-ravaged areas in Pakistan, a status-quo in US-Pakistan relations has been regained. US officials express no immediate danger of a collapse of the state.
Chaos – Thy Name is Pakistan
mohammad gill May 8, 2009 interacts: 154Islam has become a sort of Pandora Box; you take out of the box whatever you want and call it Islamic. The tragic thing is that you believe that every thing else is un-Islamic.
No Room for Half-Truths and Quasi-Morals
Qasim Mirza Apr 28, 2009 interacts: 15If the rest of Pakistan should ever hold a mirror to their face, they should see the reflection of turbaned and bearded hooligan.
What's Wrong With Imran Khan?
Hasan Shakoor Apr 25, 2009 interacts: 273I am tired of people like you making excuses for these barbarians. Why can’t someone like you just say what has to be said. These people are savages and don’t represent the Islam we grew up practicing.
Hangman and the Priest
Ibrahim Malick Apr 24, 2009 interacts: 6It is not enough that Jamaat-e-Islami does not win votes. Their ideology has hijacked our entire parliament, our entire nation.
Urban Middle Class’s Steady Descent Into Conservatism and Religious Right
Raza Habib Apr 23, 2009 interacts: 270The latest stance being that terrorism is just a “reaction� and nothing else. The most banal argument is that if Pakistan stops attacking their “own� countrymen, the hardliners will throw weapons.
Sufi Muhammed...No More a Joke
Sarah Zahid Apr 24, 2009 interacts: 46It was a small headline on the back page of Roznama Jahng. My father had passed it as a joke. “Sufi Muhammed claims that if the government does not instate sharia law in Pakistan, he will attack Islamabad.�
Taliban: The Golden Goose And The Deadly Noose
Rashid Malik Apr 21, 2009 interacts: 264President Zardari seeking aid from the Friends of Pakistan said, “If we lose, you lose. If we lose, the world loses.� He was referring to the Taliban insurgency in Pakistan.
The World According to Google, Hizbullah and Taliban
Riaz Haq Apr 13, 2009 interacts: 34Whether we see them as the good guys or the bad guys, they do understand the new laws of power in this new world.
Pakistan Is Partitioned By Its National Assembly
Syed Hussaini Apr 13, 2009 interacts: 362As reported by the Geo TV website, your “National Assembly has passed the resolution in support of Nizam-e-Adl Regulation 2009 for Malakand Division.� The President of Pakistan has signed it.
The Long Road to Talibanization
Nosheen Ali Apr 8, 2009 interacts: 49The perpetrators of religious terror in Pakistan are not just the terrorists, but also actors embedded in state and society, and neither have been made answerable.
State of Denial
MD Waqar Apr 7, 2009 interacts: 87Today I congratulate everyone because General Zia’a dream has been fulfilled as a teenaged girl was flogged in Swat.
Lashes to lashes, dust to dust
Shandana Minhas Apr 7, 2009 interacts: 342The Taliban existed before the drone attacks began. They existed before 9/11 happened. They were dismembering dissidents and hanging their bodies from lamp posts, long before the word Predator entered our local lexicon.
Islam vs. Islam
Rashid Malik Apr 6, 2009 interacts: 33Mr. Swati's comments represent the general tendency among Muslims to lie defiantly every wrongdoing committed by the Muslims; and never identifying and discussing various conflicting interpretations of Islam.
Pakistan's Long March to Democracy or Chaos
Wajahat Ali Mar 15, 2009 interacts: 262Supporting Pakistan’s recurring cast of rogues, both Pakistanis and the U.S. now risk playing a deadly game of Russian Roulette with drastic rise in extremism igniting the AF/PAK region.
If the Deal in Swat Works
Zubair Torwali Mar 15, 2009 interacts: 5Swat will be a lesson for other regions of the country. It has already given the message that in Pakistan one can make his demand accepted only through the means of guns and brute power.
Out at Liberty Market
Rakesh Mani Mar 5, 2009 interacts: 126Let the people of Lahore march peacefully in protest on Liberty and fly the Sri Lankan flag on the streets. And let the cricketing lions of Lahore, Imran Khan and Wasim Akram, lead that march.
Truce Or Capitulation?
Ibrahim Khan Feb 25, 2009 interacts: 6These Talibs, like cancer that spreads deep in the body, are now not only in Swat, but everywhere else too. In Peshawar and Islamabad and Lahore there is a palpable feeling that the evil is lurking somewhere in the shadows watching.
Pakistan, Can You Hear Me?
Rakesh Mani Feb 24, 2009 interacts: 374Pakistanis come out on the streets to protest against the Taliban, against violence and against the murder of their own people. And for peace and dignity and friendship with their neighbors.
Islamic Justice or Talibanisation of Pakistan
Syed J Hussain Feb 24, 2009 interacts: 75The Swat agreement between the provincial government of NWFP and the Taliban led by Maulana Sufi Mohammad is of greater significance than what the government has perceived.
Blow Daddy
Nadeem F Paracha Feb 21, 2009 interacts: 56You seem to like wars, son.
Yes. I like to watch them on TV.
But real wars are fought outside the TV, son.
Really? How is that possible? What sort of a war is that?
In Honor of the Heroes of Swat
Afzal K Shinwari Feb 14, 2009 interacts: 32Despite being targeted a number of times by the Taliban in Swat, he has refused to leave his hometown. He, along with his near and dear ones, continue living and defying the militants.
Taliban Cloud Moves to Pakistan
Beena Sarwar Feb 17, 2009 interacts: 480Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik recently took many by surprise with his belated public acknowledgement that the Mumbai attacks of Nov. 2008
Solving the Afghan Puzzle
Rakesh Mani Feb 12, 2009 interacts: 12President Obama’s surge in Afghanistan might bring a reduction in civilian casualties and collateral damage from air strikes, but there are several important factors that threaten this strategy.
The Nightmare Must End
Beena Sarwar Feb 10, 2009 interacts: 386Today, Pakistan bears the brunt of the Taliban fallout, thanks to short-sighted Pakistanis and Americans who thought routing the Taliban militarily in Afghanistan would ‘root out the evil’.
In memory of the Swat valley
Kamal Siddiqi Feb 9, 2009 interacts: 12One has to go no further than the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar to hear the tales of woe of the people of Swat and other parts of the NWFP.
In Search of Political Will: Fight Against Militants in Swat
Khalid Bhatti Feb 5, 2009 interacts: 86Not only the state of Pakistan has the right to take arms against these elements but rather has a duty to curb these elements with all of its might.
Swat Calls For Civil Society to Act
Zubair Torwali Jan 7, 2009 interacts: 135Government writ is a faded vision; elected councilors and Nazims are killed, women no more allowed to visit bazaars; markets are deserted, police stations vacated.
The Taliban and Our National Interest!
H P Nov 18, 2008 interacts: 339The Pakistani Taliban is not an ideological but an opportunistic anarchic group. The farrago of Sharia is a cover to step up recruitment to create anarchy in FATA and NWFP.
Ways of the Taliban
Malik Rashid Nov 5, 2008 interacts: 21Its tradition of gory acts of public beheading, suicide bombings and acts of terrorism is rapidly unmasking the Taliban in NWFP and swinging public opinion against them.
Into The Thick of the Battle
Ather Naqvi Sep 22, 2008 interacts: 21It is in the interest of the US that Pakistan is given a free hand to deal with the Taliban on its side of the border. This is Pakistan’s war now.
ISI-the Trojan horse?
Zubair Torwali Sep 14, 2008 interacts: 7Many pertinent questions are raised by the common people about the recent rise of Talibanization in Pakistan, especially in North West Frontier Province.
What Talibanization?
Nadeem F Paracha Aug 10, 2008 interacts: 72The moment I stepped out, my way was politely blocked by three young tableeghi jamaat recruits. "Aslaamulalaikum," said one of them in a swallowing Arabic accent. "Walaikum," said I.
Swat: Can the deal work?
Zubair Torwali Jul 10, 2008 interacts: 246After the peace deal between the Taliban and the government people thought that normal life would return to the troubled district of Swat.
Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jul 1, 2008 interacts: 102The Taliban are waging an armed struggle to remake society. They will keep fighting this war even if America were to miraculously evaporate into space.
The Lame Duck Government
saeed qureshi Jun 29, 2008 interacts: 43The Pakistan army has been once again mobilized in a big way to stamp out the presence of Taliban in the Tribal areas as well as Swat and Mardan.
The Emerging Threat
Ayesha Umar May 27, 2008 interacts: 127According to some people, Mangal Bagh has the full backing of government. If this is true than another Frankenstein is in the making.
Whither Enlightened Moderation
saeed qureshi May 17, 2008 interacts: 13The latest patch up between the NWFP provincial government and Taliban of Swat and South Waziristan buries the much touted President Musharraf’s theme of enlightened moderation
30 Days in Afghanistan - Dinner Conversations
Naeem Randhawa Apr 28, 2008 interacts: 101I'm in Kabul, Afghanistan. Actually, I'm in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - and across and beside me, people are beginning to get drunk. Muslims are getting drunk.
The Spring of Discontentment
ahmad hayat Feb 27, 2008 interacts: 20As of today 27th Feb 2008, the USD has touched its record low against Euro (1.50) while Oil has touched its record peak of 101 dollars.
Taliban, Pashtoons and Pakistan
Khalid Bhatti Jan 28, 2008 interacts: 155The militants have become so bold that they have started to fight pitch battles against the Army instead of employing hit and run tactics that were the hallmark of tribal battle skills.
An Insight Into Pakistan Army and Musharraf
ijaz gul Nov 29, 2007 interacts: 195A combination of threat perception and indispensability strengthened his quest for legitimacy till it consumed his reformist self.
Pakistan at War
Akmal Hussain Nov 16, 2007 interacts: 112There is little doubt that Pakistan is under attack by the combined forces of Al Qaeda and Taliban. It is equally clear that the war is not going well.
Pakistan at Sixty
Tariq Ali Nov 16, 2007 interacts: 11Insightful and relevant article written in October by political activist Tariq Ali on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Pakistan.
Voice from Waziristan
Khalid Bhatti Oct 28, 2007 interacts: 69Today on 28th October, 2007 I woke up to the horror stories of killing and beheading of thirteen people in Swat, Pakistan.
Friends Not, Masters
Hussain Gadehi Sep 24, 2007 interacts: 3An overview of the declasified US secret documents, it has been alleged in those documents that the Pakistan is supporting the Taliban
Talibanization of Pakistan
Rafi Aamer Apr 17, 2007 interacts: 196By declaring that no law in Pakistan would be made against Islamic beliefs, the constituent assembly gave religious establishment the monopoly over legislative discourse thru which they could influence every part of the society.
Girls Gone Wild
Shandana Minhas Apr 2, 2007 interacts: 1644The kidnapping of civilians and policemen by the students and teachers of the madrassas associated with the Lal Masjid, as well as recent events in Tank (NWFP) is evidence of a real, escalating and dangerous movement within the ranks of the religious righ
Stagnating Pakistan-Iran Relations
S F Hasnat Dec 1, 2006 interacts: 187When it comes to Pakistan-Iran relations there is much more than what actually is being said by the establishment or its proxies.
Pakistan's Afghan Policy
Aparna Pande Oct 24, 2006 interacts: 492Afghanistan was created as a buffer state between the British and Russian empires. The international boundary line between Afghanistan and the British empire, inherited in 1947 by Pakistan, is the Durand line. This line divided ethnic Pashtun tribes into
Behind the Iron Purdah
Bina Shah Aug 25, 2005 interacts: 267...what this country might look like if people who want Pakistan to emulate the Taliban (in terms of how women should be treated) got their way
Afghanistan: Power Plays
abdul naeem Oct 5, 2004 interacts: 5In the culmination of a hectic week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an apparent assassination attempt while on an official visit south of Kabul. With Afghanistan’s presidential election less than a month away, the situation is looking more ch
