Tag: Taliban

  • Rafia Zakaria: Swat, Somalia and Sharia

    Guest post by temporal from Baithak Blog Speaking of the former rickshaw and truck driver’s reincarnation as PakTaliban Rafia Zakaria writes in today’s News: The hijacking and effective recasting of sharia as a populist tool meant to convert the poor into accepting violence and barbarity as emblematic of Islamic justice is a tragedy. Viewing it…

  • My internal conflicts

    Guest Blog by Amer Nazir I hurried towards the train station to catch the 7:51. I was dressed well – in my Canali suit and my Hugo Boss overcoat. At the entrance to the station, I saw two people handing out leaflets. The one on the right was Susan Krammer, the local Liberal Democrat MP.…

  • 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…

  • Pakistan is there to live

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik As long as India keeps dreaming the disintegration of Pakistan, it will survive as a viable state as the very negativity serves the purpose of knitting this crowd of 170 million people into a nation, whenever it is confronted by its arch rival. Editor of Indian Defence Review, Mr. Bharat…

  • Hot pursuit or breach of territorial integrity in Pakistan

    Amjad Malik writes specially on the issue of US incursions in Pakistan As Pakistan is paying the price for flirting with United States yet again and did not learn anything from Russian invasion results and being in the rock and hard place, the country is viewed by many that its giving too much to the…

  • Profiting from Religion: Land Grabbing Business and Christian Minority in Pakistan

    Guest Blog by Silence from Islamabad Observer Religion is basically meant to be personal belief of a person or group of people. It is outrageous, shameful and downright arrogant of the religious groups to use religion as a source of profits. However since the times immortal, criminals, religious clerics, land grabbers and even power hungry…