By FELICITY ARBUTHNOT
… to wade through slaughter … and shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
– Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
THE scale of the disaster caused by the floods in Pakistan, is barely comprehensible. As Juan Cole has written, expressing near disbelief: “The submerged area of the country is as big as the United Kingdom, fourteen million [...]
ASIF HAROON RAJA
GEN MUSHARRAF enjoyed nine-year rule but Pakistan suffered. He was given a royal send off and is still enjoying life abroad but Pakistan continues to bleed because of his unpardonable sins. Had he put some steel in his back and warded off the telephonic pressure from Collin Powel, he could have [...]
UNITED Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said from Pakistan that the flood disaster is the worst he’s ever seen, characterizing the destruction as more dire than that caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2005 Pakistani earthquake. Ban urged the international community to send more relief funds to the area; the country now has [...]
By ASIF HAROON RAJA
INDIA being the sole terrorist state in the region has been playing upon the theme of terrorism since early 1990s but could not make any headway in getting Pakistan declared a terrorist state since USA was not directly affected by terrorism. 9/11 changed the whole scenario and terrorism became the buzzword [...]
By ASIF HAROON RAJA
THE US is deeply concerned that Haqqani network based in North Waziristan (NW) is killing American soldiers in Afghanistan. It complains that the militants have safe havens in FATA which seriously jeopardizes US efforts to defeat militancy. The issue is not whether the militants take off from Pakistan’s [...]
PRESS TV
THE Taliban in Afghanistan reject a London-based report which depicts the relationship between them and Pakistan's intelligence agency as being "strong."
The London School of Economics (LSE) claimed the relationship between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is greater than previously estimated and that the intelligence agency "orchestrates, sustains and strongly influences the [...]
AN AMERICAN businessman armed with a pistol, dagger and a sword has been arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of wanting to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden, police said Tuesday.
The 50-year-old from California was detained on Monday in what was apparently the first such case in Pakistan since the United [...]
By EARTHMAN
MR. Hamid Mir brought Samar Minallah in his program Capital Talk and she displayed flogging video of a girl and blamed Taliban for such vicious act. At hundred of occasions that video was referenced and today’s all PPP’s leadership made it drama for seeking American money.
As video was a pre planned conspiracy against Swat [...]
By Rabia Ali and Imtiaz Ali, The News international
OSAMA bin Laden is dead and “increasingly irrelevant”, Yvonne Ridley believes. She has also stopped writing a book about him, and is amazed that the Pakistani media did not challenge British premier Gordon Brown’s statement claiming that Bin Laden was in Pakistan. “Where did that come from? [...]
PRESS TV
THE US military has reportedly launched 114 airstrikes in Pakistan since 20
PAKISTANI officials confirm the loss of five lives when three missiles fired by a US drone aircraft hit a house in the country's northwestern tribal belt.
A man was also injured in the Monday attack in Miran Shah, the main town in [...]
