Things tagged as Pak Afghan.
October 18th by Talat Hussain.
Talat Hussain recently visited Afghanistan he is not restricted himself in Kabul only even though he visited some disturbed areas as well which Embassy was not allowing him. He conclude ...
October 7th by Javed Chaudhry.
After a long break, javed ch is back with his column . In todays column he is talking about real friends of Pakistan and current government's blind trust on USA ...
September 21st by Irfan Siddiqui.
Irfan Siddiqui in todays column talking abt Dr. Afia's son Muhammad Ahmad who has just been freed from Afghan Government after five years but our government is claiming that he ...
September 20th by Rahimullah Yusufzai.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, thrust like most Pakistani politicians into a position in which he had no experience, believes rather naively that there is an institutional disconnect in the ...
September 19th by Ayaz Amir.
The United States has us in a vice and we are not even yelping. A dog in our position would yelp. Even a goat would bleat. But the Islamic Republic, ...
September 18th by Talat Masood.
In the last few weeks, the Pakistan Army has been conducting major military operations in Bajaur and Swat, causing widespread death, destruction and suffering; hundreds of thousands have been internally ...
September 17th by Mahir Ali.
NEARLY three decades ago, when Gen Ziaul Haq sought to dramatise the situation on the border with Afghanistan, he dragged Zbigniew Brzezinski to the vicinity of the Khyber Pass and ...
September 15th by Tanvir Ahmad Khan.
In the north-western borderlands of Pakistan, people whose daily desires do not go beyond eking out a living from a forbidding terrain die, as the poet Joseph Brodsky would say, ...
August 26th by Khalid Aziz.
Recent suicide bombings clearly show that the insurgency has shifted from FATA and NWFP to the left bank of the Indus. The destabilisation resulting in Pakistan by participating in the ...
August 24th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
On August 11, Agence France-Presse (AFP), the oldest news agency in the world, quoted NATO Commander US Army General David McKiernan declaring that "Pakistan's intelligence agency is helping the Taliban ...
August 6th by Nasim Zehra.
The diplomatic deadlock that had followed the totally justifiable Indian outrage against the deadly attack on its Kabul embassy may have slightly eased after the SAARC Summit. Yet the meetings ...
August 5th by Ikram Sehgal.
In the aftermath of 9/11 it was necessary for the US impose a government in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban. Governance must eventually relate with the aspirations of the people, ...
August 4th by Anees Jillani.
ON July 25, eight small bombs exploded in quick succession across the south-Indian city of Bangalore, killing a woman and wounding at least 15 people.
So far the Indian police ...
August 2nd by Ejaz Haider.
The Americans have decided to play hardball with Pakistan. See the chronology of events:
July 7: A bomb outside the Indian embassy in Kabul kills some 60 people including India’s defence ...
July 26th by Rahimullah Yusufzai.
Pakistan is on course to finally have a proper policy to resolve the conflict in the FATA and NWFP. The PPP-led federal coalition government in a summit meeting of the ...
July 26th by Aqil Shah.
STATES are supposed to wield legitimate monopoly over the means of coercion in the territory under their control. That’s what makes them states.
In Pakistan, however, Taliban militants have successfully challenged ...
