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Is Imran Khan the new choice of agencies (ISI) in Pakistan? Is he the man who will be planted to replace the present democratic set up in Pakistan? The following is a collection of some resources and comments on this topic: A defender of ISI Q: Is there any role that the ISI can still play with regards to the Taliban, considering that many [...]

During Black September the head of Pakistani training commission took command of the 2nd Division and helped kill and cleanse the Palestinians (est. 25,000 dead) from (more...)

Pakistan's so-called free press has become a beggar's market where cheap and shoddy journalism is sold to the highest bidder.... writes Shaheen Sehbai. Who will Bell the Bad, Fat Cats?Shaheen Sehbai January 5, 2000This article has been submitted for publication to all major newspapers in PakistanEvery one in the present morally, intellectually [...]

Was Mumbai the Kargil 2? What is Pakistan Army/ISI upto this time? Incriminating evidence against the unholy nexus between ISI and jihadi/sectarian forces in PakistanSpare a few minutes in reading the following various reports. Pause and reflect for little while. Try to connect various pieces of the jigsaw puzzle to trace the unholy nexus between [...]

Abbas ZaidiWhen General Musharraf deposed Ifitikhar Chaudhry, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, on 9 March 2007, he did not realize there would be such an endless and widespread chain of protests all over the country. It was for the first time in Pakistan´s history that a judge had defied a general´s orders by deciding a few cases on merit, i.e., [...]

In our own interest — Talat MasoodStrategies and policies have to change in accordance with current realities. It may have been expedient to pursue foreign and defence policy through the use of proxies in the 1980s and 1990s, but not any moreThe Mumbai attacks, if not handled properly, could shake the very foundations of the Indo-Pak peace [...]

On the one hand, religious outfits preach jihad, and on the other they provide education, health and other social services, which are supposed to be responsibilities of the state. If the state had fulfilled its responsibilities, there would be no space for people like Hafiz SaeedThe proliferation of jihad in Pakistan, particularly in Punjab, is [...]

Our heroes and heroinesON Wednesday, the UN General Assembly conferred the prestigious UN Human Rights Award on the late Benazir Bhutto. Her son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, received the award from the UN Assembly chief Miguel D’Escoto Brockman. Benazir Bhutto deserved the award not because she was the Muslim world’s first woman prime minister but [...]

In a recent article, a scholar has advised the intellectual in the Pashtun region of Pakistan to take the lead in the country’s search for solutions to Talibanisation. Earlier, Pakistan’s martyred leader Benazir Bhutto in her book Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West wrote, “And the living reformers like Muhammad Arkoun, Abdur [...]

Imran Khan be a hero for the right-wing parties. He is indeed the most popular leader in Pakistani Taliban, after Baitullah Mehsud. But do the people of Pakistan like him? No, A big no. A number of times, Imran Khan and his political party have been badly rejected by Pakistanis in various elections. In the 2008 elections, Imran Khan boycotted the [...]

THE federal cabinet’s decision to reinstate 6,000 officials (with full benefits) sacked in 1996, ostensibly on political grounds, will be welcomed. It comes as a reminder of how ‘the steel frame’ of the Raj in South Asia that Pakistan inherited at the time of independence has been demolished over the years. The unfortunate tradition that the [...]

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Can we dig Zia out and let him see what he had done to Pakistan, a beautiful country?It has been seven years since the sad day that dawned upon the skies of the New York City. It was one of the worst single incidents of terrorism that shook the entire world in general and America in particular. It was a day when fear gripped everyone in the world [...]

SOME COMMENTSIs there no possibility that the majority of missing might have joined the cause of the taliban and fighting for them and are not allowed to returm. Some of them might have been killed. Some could have been handed over to the American.Why should we not look into all the possibilities. Musharaf is gone finished. If people think we [...]

koilon ki dallali main munh kalaIn this op-ed piece, Haroon-ur-Rashid is trying to present General Zia-ul-Haq, the worst of all dictators in Pakistan's history, as the real hero of Islam and Pakistan, and the real hero of the Afghan jihad (actually the Afghan fasad).Fools such as Haroon-ur-Rashid have a romantic vision of Khilafat-e-Abbasia and [...]

Hamid Gul, Aslam Beg, Roedad Khan, Akhtar Abdur Rehman, Zia-ul-Haq, Rafiq Tarar, the long list of criminals of ISI ... By Ardeshir Cowasjee We never learn from history By Ardeshir Cowasjee The indefatigable old warrior of our skies is wounded, as sorely wounded as any father of 81 years of age who has tragically lost his eldest son, [...]

Making peace with terrorism?The National Assembly Speaker, Dr Fehmida Mirza, noticed on Friday that members of parliament were generally not showing up to attend the in-camera briefings on the war on terror as required. Of the 440 legislators in both houses of parliament, only a few dozen attended the session, forcing the Speaker to admonish the [...]

Who killed Benazir Bhutto? Foot-soldiers of Al-Qaeda/Taliban/Sipah-e-Sahaba. Who were the masterminds? General Hamid Gul, Brigadier Ijaz Shah, other rogue elements in Pakistan's ISI and other intelligence agencies.Who are their mouth-pieces in the Pakistani media? Irfan Siddiqi, Ansar Abbasi, Kashif Abbasi, Mushtaq Minhas, Hamid Mir, Roedad Khan, [...]

Irfan Siddiqi, the notorious Taliban supporter, and a low-grade servant and speech writer for the Mullah President Rafiq Tarar remembers 12 October 1999 but not 4 July 1977. Abbas Ather identifies this dichotomy in the attitudes and behaviors of the supporters of PML(N) and their pro-Taliban media agents (e.g. Irfan Siddiqi) who are ready to [...]

In his recent interview with an Australian News Agency, Imran Khan claimed that cricketers would never be under any threat from terrorists...Terrorists rely on support from the masses because that's where they get their recruits, and cricket is a game which is so loved and there's such passion in Pakistan, that the terrorists know that if a [...]

The True Face of Jehadis; Inside Pakistan's Network of Terror Amir Mir Roli Books Private Ltd Pages xvii+ 308, Rs. 395 Review by: Kalim Bahadur Amir Mir's volume The True Face of Jehadis is a very comprehensive and a definitive handbook on the rise and growth of the militant Jehadi groups in Pakistan. Amir Mir traces the origins of the [...]

The true (ugly) face of Jehadis and the Mullah-ISI alliance in Pakistan: Amir Mir, an eminent journalist, son of legendary Professor Waris Mir, brother of journalist Hamid Mir, provides a personal account of how he became a target of Jehadis cum intelligence agencies in Pakistan because of his book "The True Face of Jehadis".Source: Journalist [...]

By DR FARID A. MALIK September 12, 2008Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) emerged on the political horizon as a member of the Iskander Mirza cabinet. Since then there was no looking back. He was young and charismatic. After the fall of Mirza's presidency he continued as a federal minister in the regime of General Ayub Khan. He gained popularity as foreign [...]

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A beautiful column by Abbas Ather (Express, 13 Sep 2008) in memory of shaheed Zlufiqar Ali Bhutto. (more...)

Hasan Nisar .... Tariq Ali on Zia and Bhutto (BBC Urdu) Part 1: Part 2: Source: http://fanonite.org/2007/12/29/tariq-ali-on-zia-and-bhutto-bbc-urdu/ Tariq Ali is speaking about his play, The Leopard and the Fox commissioned initially by the BBC. The play dealt with the relationship between Pakistan’s former dictator, [...]