With Anti-American sentiment high in Pakistan from the continued drone strikes and the war on terror, a recent news report disclosed that the United States is planning a massive expansion of its diplomatic missions in Pakistan. While the State Department continues to claim that the expansion is to replace an already overcrowded, dilapidated and unsafe [...]
Read more →Let’s see how many times the story has changed about whether Zardari & Co. were or were not supposed to be at the Marriott the night of the massive bombing. Posted below is President Zardari’s interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s Late Edition. Can the kind readers of this blog remind us all of the [...]
Read more →An Op-Ed piece from this morning’s Boston Globe by our own Asif Ali Zardari. For your consumption and comments. There are moments in history that define nations, and also define men. For Pakistan, we have reached a critical crossroad that will determine the nature of our future, or if we will have one. I have [...]
Read more →I just read this on the Washington Post website and think that most of us need to join this school of thought. Islam is not served by the people who commit these acts or those who support them. Add your comments below. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and serves as a [...]
Read more →Whenever the terrorists succeed, whenever an atrocity is of a scale to hit the front pages of the world’s newspapers, there is always an inquest into the failures of intelligence that allowed it to happen. After the slaughter at the Marriott hotel in Islamabad on Saturday, the intelligence agencies of a dozen or more countries [...]
Read more →The one ton truck bomb that ripped apart Islamabad’s Marriot Inn last Saturday was both a warning to its pro-American elite and a revenge attack against Pakistan’s new government At least 56 people – a probably many more – were reported killed and some 250 injured by the huge explosion that tore off the front [...]
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