The Risks Of A Remote-Controlled War: CIA using Drones for International Assassination
Jane Mayer, a political journalist for The New Yorker discusses the ethics and controversies surrounding the CIA’s covert drone program, in which remotely controlled, unmanned planes target terror suspects in Pakistan. A 32 minutes interview on NPR [transcript]
Mayer writes that unlike the military’s publicly acknowledged drone program in Afghanistan and Iraq — both [...]
How a betrayer Lover and an unsuccessful Spy become PPP’s “Close Associate”
Guest Blog by Talkhaba
I’m unable to understand as why the news editor didn’t make heading of it. Was it important to tell that Brigadier® Imtiaz had once saved Nuclear Assets by arresting the failed lover cum spy, whose plans became known to Mr Bila only after when his annoyed beloved felt betrayed [...]
Some Questions over a Lead Story in The Nation
Guest Blog by temporal who blogs at Baithak
Look at this lead story from the Nation. [also quoted below] – Arrested militants name RAW for funding 680m through Afghan secret agency
Where are the credits? Who wrote this story?
What are the sources of this story?
Is this a scoop or a “leaked” story
Does it smack of lifafa journalism?
More [...]
Being fooled at will!
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. A must watch video.
The important thing in dealing with the Pakistani leadership (military or civil) is not to believe everything we hear. The only certain thing, the one thing we can depend on, is that every leader who poses as the [...]
Pakistan troops ordered to Open Fire if US raids continue
Pakistan’s military has ordered its forces to open fire if U.S. troops launch another air or ground raid across the Afghan border, an army spokesman said – APP. This order comes in light of the recent incursions by the US Army’s unmanned drone aircraft which has continued to make bombing runs into Pakistan. [...]
Dr. Aafia’s son handed over to Pakistan
It is being reported that the Afghanistan government has handed over the custody of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s eldest son Ahmed Siddiqui to the Pakistani Ambassador in Kabul
Dawn.com: Under the presidential order of Hamid Karzai, we hand over Ali Hassan (?), 12, to Pakistan authorities,’ Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman, Sultan Ahmad Baheen, told reporters during [...]
Humor: PPP’s Annual Press Release
Annual Report – September 15, 2008
Management Discussion and Analysis (MDNA) – Brief
The Permanent Plunder Party (PPP) Co. is extremely pleased to announce the results from the success of its “Say What You Don’t Mean” (SWYDM) pills that were designed to induce “hallucinations” and spur episodes of “selective amnesia” among the general public in Pakistan. The [...]
A speech Zardari did not make
By Dr Muzaffar Iqbal
The News, September 12, 2008
Bismi’Llahi-Rahmani-Rahim
(In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent.)
My fellow citizens, assalamu alaykum. First of all, I am grateful to the Almighty for giving me the honour of serving a great nation as its president. It has become somewhat clichéd to say that today Pakistan stands [...]
Living with Corruption
Guest Post by Silence
Corruption and governance goes together in developing countries, especially the third world where democratic process is influenced by bloodline, money politics, feudalism, intervention of imperialist powers through military and religious exploitations. The process becomes more painful when the society is trying to develop from under develop, while profiled as ‘high risk investment [...]
