As Buner and Lower Dir are cleared of the Taliban invaders and the Government of the NWFP steps up its pressure, there are some reports coming out of Swat that the TNSM Chief Sufi Muhammad is abandoning the peace agreement that he made with the NWFP government because of the military operations and have threatened [...]
Read more →A Must Read for anyone who wants to understand the Indian view of Pakistan. Oddly, you will find that India has the same things to say about Pakistan that Iran says about Israel. Capt. Bharat Verma is the editor of Indian Defence Review. A quarterly journal read by leading policy makers at senior bureaucratic, political [...]
Read more →ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — More than any other terrorist attack in this volatile country, the devastating truck bombing of the Marriott Hotel over the weekend has presented government and military leaders here with a stark choice: Go all out against extremists or risk the nation’s collapse into chaos. That is the growing consensus among many Pakistani [...]
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 →Dr. Hasan-Askari Rizvi, a noted defense and political analyst in Pakistan, shared an interesting insight into Pakistan’s extremist problem in today’s Daily Times. The military is drawing flak for its expanded role in the political and other non-professional domains. The intensity of anti-army feeling and the frequency of its expression are unprecedented in post-1971 Pakistan. [...]
Read more →A collection of pictures of the continued siege at Lal Masjid in Islamabad from domestic and international media outlets, including CNN, BBC, Dawn, and The News.
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