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Post-Baitullah TTP – Saleem Safi
It would be too optimistic to believe that the killing of Baitullah Mehsud has smashed the TTP network. It is a fact that the TTP has been weakened in the past few weeks and months, however, there are some factors which need to be considered.
The major blow to the TTP was [...]
Cry of the ancient mariner – Anjum Niaz
he writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reporting
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has received yet one more petition praying for justice. The ancient mariner says he was “Illegally” retired from the navy and made to flee the country. The [...]
A civil-military equation – Masood Sharif Khan Khattak
Musharraf’s nine years of misrule have left Pakistan comparable to a ship which finds itself in stormy waters with its engines seized, the rudder broken and the compass out of order. The magnificent two-year-long relentless struggle by the lawyers and the civil society against a well entrenched dictator [...]
Pakistan Afghanistanised – Mosharraf Zaidi
The point I made in my article last week was simple. When it comes to making use of foreign assistance, Pakistan has shot itself in the feet too many times. Calling out the Americans on administrative expenditure is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Arguing with any donor, [...]
Wars of liberation – Dr A Q Khan
In my previous column, I wrote about partition, the Kashmir issue and the treacherous role played by Lord Mountbatten and Sir Radcliffe.
On a number of occasions, both General Musharraf and Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri have issued statements that gave the impression that India was about to hand over [...]
A conspiracy against my father – 2 – Muhammad Ijaz ul Haq
15. It was a conspiracy and an international one at that. But it could not have been carried out in practical terms without active and acquired assistance through local collusion. The crime could not have been committed without the involvement of local hands.
16. A [...]
WASHINGTON DIARY: Unstoppable history —Dr Manzur Ejaz
The village’s isolation has ended and society has started interacting and amalgamating itself although in an uneven and extremely anarchic manner. Along the way it has generated some weird trends and ideologies but that is how history unfolds
While retired military officials in Pakistan were spilling beans, a Chilean [...]
Brigadier Imtiaz’s ‘revelations’ —Ijaz Hussain
Since Musharraf is one of the principal beneficiaries of Brig Imtiaz’s strike, as it shifted the focus of political discourse from his trial to Sharif’s sleazy political past, it cannot be ruled out that he alone or in tandem with others was behind the “revelations”
The other day, Brigadier Imtiaz Ahmed, [...]