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Related post: ISI mobilizes fake civil society to defend Pakistani generals While Nawaz Sharif's bold stance on an independent commission to investigate the circumstances in which Osama bin Laden was found in a compound in Abbottabad and also his stance on the accountability and non-political role of Pakistan army has to be appreciated, one [...]

Related articles: LUBP Archive on Bahrain Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants? Christopher Hill, a former US secretary of state for east Asia who was ambassador to Iraq – and usually a very obedient and un-eloquent American diplomat – wrote the other day that "the notion that a dictator can claim the sovereign right to abuse his [...]

Related posts: General Pasha in Pakistan’s parliament: Jahan panah tusi great ho, tohfa qabul karo! Questions for General Pasha (Part I) To the honourable generals of Pakistan army – by Rashid Aurakzai ISI mobilizes fake civil society to defend Pakistani generals Here is the most appropriate response to the Pakistan Army-Al Qaeda [...]

Like a rabbit popping out of a magician's empty hat, Osama bin Laden (OBL) was not ‘smoked out’ of any cave in Afghanistan but right from under CIA’s 63 year old strategic partner’s Sandhurst, Abbottabad. Capitol hill and Pentagon are furious at the snake up their sleeves but the overwhelming, oppressed and democratic majority of [...]

In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's discovery by the US commandos in a Safe House in the garrison town of Abbottabad, it feels as if we, Pakistanis, are going through a horrible dream of being naked in public. No matter what we do, the guilt keeps building up till we wake up and feel relieved. Do those ‘responsible’ feel the same? Not a [...]

While some sincere friends as well as some die-hard haters of the PPP are currently advising the Zardari-Gilani government to 'make full use of the rare window of opportunity' by questioning and undermining the GHQ-Al-Qaeda collusion, it is important to understand the current power equation in Pakistan and the lack of an enabling environment to [...]

“BY golly some of our great anchors are something to behold after the springing of Master Raymond Davis from jail … foaming at the mouth; trembling with white rage …” — yours truly in this same space in March, writing about the reaction of our mindlessly jingoistic and very loud talk-show hosts. Our revered anchors are once again a [...]

Related post: Fake criticism of Pakistan army by FCS proxies First published in: The Washington Examiner (My reply to two articles of Mosharraf Zaidi in Times of India and Foreign Policy Magazine.) The dust settled.  The answer is known.  Pakistan had Osama bin Laden hidden deep inside a picturesque town of Abbottabad, more famous for [...]

Related post: Prominent anchor abuses during a mental breakdown suffered from defending the indefensible! hum kahan ke tha dana, kis hunar mein yakta the be sabab hua Ghalib dushman asman apna (Ghalib) Brigadier Siddiq Salik while recounting his memories as a major during the 1971 mega surrender of Pakistan Army's Eastern Command writes [...]

Related post: A rebuttal to Mosharraf Zaidi and other apologists of the military state of Pakistan – by Sumantra Maitra Fake criticism of military establishment Fake critical letter to ISI chief by Ejaz Haider Three musketeers and the “PPP abandoned Salmaan Taseer” narrative An open letter to President Zardari — by Shahid [...]

Official discourse of Pakistan army and its proxies Pakistan Army has done "extraordinarily well" in the history of Pakistan. Yes, we need army otherwise India, Israel and America will control our arsenals. And yes, for this we have to allow them to bread and rear non-state actors sectarian jihaids and Arab terrorists by using our foreign loans [...]

Pseudo-socialists, pseudo-nationalists and Osama bin Laden's shahadat There are many so called communists, socialists, ethno-nationalists who initially joined PPP because they were motivated by Bhuttoism. Some among them, the followers of 'entryism' (infiltration), were hopeful to overcome PPP’s leadership through their shrew tactics and [...]

Top TV anchors and the fake civil society (FCS) loyalists of Pakistan army have announced to collect funds and donations on urgent basis to purchase 10 radars to save at least 10 top Al-Qaida leaders in various safe houses in Pakistan. Anchors will donate half of their lucrative salaries and the FCS will raise funds from industrialists, PML(N), [...]

Related articles: A commodity called security   Appeal to international community: Impose travel restrictions on all senior officers of Pakistan army On BBC’s Secret Pakistan and Ejaz Haider: Their denials and propagandists – by Abbas Daiyar A comment on Bruce Riedel’s proposed accountability of Pakistan army Aim: The [...]

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 each month.

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 special forces in Abbottabad and the elimination of the most vile terrorist Osama [...]

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 does not offer a viable solution to the myriad problems faced by the Pakistani State. There [...]

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 not worried about scores of dead bodies in Balochistan and the way Army is killing activists, but according to [...]

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 before the suspension of Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza by the President of Pakistan under pressure of the MQM. Ajmal [...]

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 it was not so. PPP had series of grievances with the ISI though it could not be ascertained whether it [...]

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 writers concerning this. Why are you all not writing more critical posts on Zardari! It seems that PPP is now speaking the voice of the [...]

Preamble Commenting on the state of pro-establishment journalism in Pakistan, Ayesha Siddiqa once said: Today, we face a state of military hegemony: political, economic and intellectual control. Today, there is not a single university in Pakistan or a young scholar who is not on the military’s payroll or network. They open shops called [...]

طویلے کی بلا بندر کے سر – از افتخار چودھری تا جمشید دستی یہ بہت پرانامحارہ ہے آپ نے بھی سن رکھا ہو گا۔ لہذا اس کی وجہ تسمیہ سمجھانے کے لیئے ہم آپ کو مزید بور نہیں کر یں گے اس لیئے کہ اول تو جواس کی [...]

The fundemental principle followed by Pakistan's urban intelligensia (fake civil society - FCS) is to divert criticism away from the real culprits. Jamshed Dasti (a commoner, a PPP MNA from Muzaffargarh) did not free the rapists of Mukhtaran Mai, the Supreme Court did, just like they freed Jihadis such as Hafiz Saeed (Let), Qari Saifullah [...]

Saudi invaders and Pakistani mercenaries have demolished at least 25 Shia mosques to implement a radical Wahhabi, sectarian agenda in Bahrain. We must thank General Kayani of Pakistan and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for providing mercenaries to Bahrain's King Hamad Al Khalifa to carry out anti-Shia violence and persecution in the tiny island. [...]

My father visited us in USA earlier this year. This was his first time visiting USA. He noticed the same things about USA that I did when I came to USA. Yes, I too noticed that there were women working everywhere in USA. In stores, in malls, in schools, and almost everywhere. "What do their men do?" I wondered My father said [...]

The PPP government has requested the court to reopen the Bhutto case to rectify the history and expect justice from the independent judiciary. According to Kamrab Rehmat: The 1974 murder of Nawab Mohamed Ahmed Khan, a dissident of Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), was used in 1977 when Zia toppled Bhutto as the ground for the PPP [...]

I have been a long admirer of Javed Hashmi particularly because of his principled stance against General Musharraf and Pakistan army, and his reconciliatory approach to other political parties including the Pakistan Peoples Party. However, the words that he uttered today in the National Assembly have further increased the respect that I have for [...]

Pakistan is probably the country whose demise is predicted most frequently and nervously. David Kilcullen, an American-based guerrilla warfare expert, wrote the most apocalyptic (and inaccurate!) obituary back in 2009: collapse within months. Political scientists, wiser than narrowly-focused warfare experts, are less impetuous. However, while [...]

Related articles: The role of General Zia-ul-Haq in the events of Black September (1970) in Jordan LUBP Archive on Bahrain There is no future without the past. These words were written by our Mentor Dr. Lal Khan in his article a fews days back on www.marxist.com. With the new waves in Egypt, Yemen and Bhahrain we are seeing the tense [...]

Related articles: The burqa debate: “To ban or not to ban?” – by Imaan Hazir Mazari The burqa debate: “Burqa got a befitting French kiss” – by Marvi Sirmed We all know that burqa does not have its roots in religion. Religion only asks women to dress modestly. Where did the burqa or veil come from then? Why do so many women in [...]

Related articles: The burqa debate: “Just so you do not have thoughts…” - by Shazia Nawaz The burqa debate: “To ban or not to ban?” – by Imaan Hazir Mazari Before reading this argument on recent Burqa-ban by France, you need to know who I am. Raised in an orthodox Muslim Deobandi family, I’ve been educated in Pakistan’s [...]

Related articles: The burqa debate: “Just so you do not have thoughts…” - by Shazia Nawaz The burqa debate: “Burqa got a befitting French kiss” – by Marvi Sirmed How do we know when a state oversteps its bounds? When do we, as the citizens of any state, determine how far a government can intervene in our personal lives? When [...]

Related articles: Sectarianism and racism: The dishonest narratives on Bahrain – by Hasnain Magsi Recruitment of Bahrain National Guards in Lahore to kill Shia protesters in Bahrain The fabrication of Bahrain’s Shiite-Sunni divide – by Shirin Sadeghi The Mainstream Narrative in Pakistan and the Muslim World On Bahrain, the [...]

The raging controversy that is being generated by the Government’s reference to the Supreme Court to revisit the ZAB trial evidences at least one fact, namely that the forces that ousted and murdered Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto are still all powerful and have the ability to cloud the judgment of even those who stand for justice and rule of law. They [...]

Here is a thing for you; you heard spine chilling, devastatingly frank and shockingly straight forward admission of botched suicide bombing attempt by a teenage boy of impressionable mind, what would you make of it? To make your life little easier, you have two options to select from. One is beaten since inception and other never put into [...]

Thirty two years ago on 4th April 1979, a great injustice was done to the majority people of Pakistan. The first popularly elected Prime Minister & Chairman of the Islamic Summit was judicially murdered at the gallows by an ungrateful Islamo-fascist military junta with a subjugated Supreme Court that rendered four to three “guilty” verdict [...]

Related articles: Pakistani bloggers demand release of Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al-Yousif Iranain blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi dies in prison. Time to support bloggers in Iran Bahrain buries dead blogger as government crackdown continues LUBP Archive on Bahrain Hundreds of mourners took part in a funeral procession in Bahrain on Monday [...]

The following is a short clip of an interview of the Lebanese Shia Muslim scholar Muhammad Hassan Al-Amin. He discusses the need for a secular state, which is quite rare in the Muslim world, particularly within what one would label the orthodox clergy. Source: http: //youtu.be/pnwI2jcQ2Ww In much of the Muslim world, and particularly in [...]

While ZAB's role in the military operation in Balochistan has been criticized by many amongst his friends and foes, the following extract from ZAB's book (cited in Hamid Mir's article in daily Jang) suggests that more than ZAB, it were army generals who were responsible for the brutal operation in Balochistan. In fact, he was very upset about the [...]