Category: War
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The DJ’s of ‘Political Combat’
Guest Blog by Zeeshan Khan (@ZeeshChohan) Perhaps there was no better time to pen this down. With the rising tensions between India and Pakistan lately, the ‘online’ soldiers from both sides have grabbed their keyboards to administer the proceedings between both countries. As the DSL connections became more and more common, there emerged a whole…
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10 Lessons Pakistan can learn from the Northern Ireland Conflict
Comparing 10 holistic lessons learned from the Northern Ireland conflict to war going on in Pakistan – We simply need to reclaim the Peace in Pakistan – it has to be a combination of good cop – bad Cop approach, meaning Peace Talks combined with threatening use of strategic force, no matter how we do…
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Romancing Glory – legacy of General Zia ul Huq
In my childhood whenever we were asked what would you become when you grow up. The most common answers included joining the army or becoming a pilot (fighter). It may be because the 80s were spent under General Zia’s dictatorship. Later, it was the turn of being a Mujahid, fuelled by the Pakistani romance with…
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Copy Cat League FLIPS OVER to agree to have Peace Talks with TTP
Imran Khan has been a strong proponent of having peace talks with the Talibans for over 8 years, to an extent that these politicans accused him of being a Taliban Sympathizer and branded him as Taliban Khan. Now it seems everyone PPP, ANP & more recently Nawaz Sharif has accepted the fact that there must…
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Drone Pilots: Did we just kill a Kid? No .. it was a dog with Two Legs
A drone operator sitting in front of a video screen in New Mexico after he just bombed a target to oblivion “Did we just kill a kid?” he asked the man sitting next to him. “Yeah, I guess that was a kid,” the pilot replied. “Was that a kid?” they wrote into a chat window…
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Pakistan at the helm of Terrorism Index
Thank you PPP, PML, MQM, ANP, JUI-F for your disastrous 5 years of governance – via Facebook
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What resuming NATO supply means to me
Rana Usman in his blog I Believe writes What resuming NATO supply means to me – he wraps up his article with these touching words Each day, I die morally, each day when I see my ruling class prostrating to the people who are killing my land. Eventually this nation will die morally, there will…
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Why does the Pakistani Gov allows the US to kill its citizens?
The question asked by the Foundation for Fundamental Rights (FFR) in its litigation filed in Peshawar last week – is Why does the Pakistan government allows the US to kill its citizens? – Clive Stafford Smith a director in the British Charity Reprieve ask this in his Op-ed in The Tribune titled Shoot the Drones…
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Stuxnet: Cyber Weapon of Mass Destruction
I’m sure over the past year you may have accidentally stumbled across the word Stuxnet, it is technically a simple computer virus that has started infecting Microsoft Windows computers since July 2010, I too heard some reports of the virus, but as usual shrugged it aside as just another scare, little did I worry any…
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Save the Nukes
In the past few days I and perhaps many of you have felt exactly the same as we felt 40 years ago in December 1971, when Gen Niazi surrendered to the Indian Army. Some of you were not even born, so lucky you, but most of this group had to face such a humiliation for…
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The Deal Undone: Pakistan, its Army and the Americans
The deal undone explores the strenuous relationship between the Pakistan – US military establishments. The documentary analyzes a specific period in the history of this relationship during the, following the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. From the heights of friendship during the early years of the war on terror to the falling out with the…
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[Op-Ed] Giving up on Pakistan
This op-ed was drafted a day before Gov Salman Taseers assassination, erringly it talks about peace and the notion of blasphemy in Pakistan As we round the corner, saying goodbye to 2010 and entering the new year, everyone chooses to make a new year’s resolution. Promises are made, hoping for some miraculous conviction that will…
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[Pictures] Solidarity Day Rally for Peace in Pakistan – Islamabad
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[Pictures] Solidarity Day Rally for Peace in Pakistan – Karachi
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[Press Statement] Solidarity Day 2011
Islamabad, 30 December 2010: Aman Ittehad has given a call to hold rallies on 1st January 2011 at 1:00 pm as an expression of solidarity with those suffering violence in any form, including suicide attacks, bomb blasts, target killings, kidnappings, disappearances, and torture killings. It is expected that these rallies will be held in more…