Teeth Maestro

Tag: US

  • Are they “Children of a Lesser God?”

    You must have abundantly heard about School shooting in the US where children are brutally murdered by maniacs, the world gushed a shock at the inhumanity of how a person could have the heart to kill a child. What people seem to forget amongst another statistics are the CHILDREN killed in Pakistan courtesy of US…

  • The US Drone War in Pakistan Is Back

    “Even if the White House doesn’t know a target’s name, he can still BE MARKED FOR DEATH. Obama has provided the CIA with authority to kill not only suspected militants, but unknown individuals it believes FOLLOWS A PATTERN OF MILITAN ACTIVITY, in what it terms “signature strikes.” Thank you to ALL our parliamentarians for this…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Pakistan Terrorism Accountability Act in US Congress – to fine Pakistan $2.2 Billion

    US Congress presented the Pakistan Terrorism Accountability Bill 2012 – which aims to block all aid to Pakistan – it is as per the new US rhetoric asking Pakistan to “do more” in terms of the War on Terror – It actually means to push the Pakistani  Government & the Military to allow for more…

  • Meeting Under Secretary Maria Otero at the US Consulate in Karachi

    On 3rd November a small group of social & print media bloggers were invited to the US Consul General’s Residence in Karachi for a small luncheon discussion with the visiting US Under Secretary Maria Otero. Maria Otero, is a well spoken representative of the US, coordinating U.S. foreign relations on a variety of global issues,…

  • US is Pakistan’s impossible to please mother-in-law, woman tells Clinton

    At an event to honor Secretary of State Mrs Hilary Clinton a women stands up to say “We all know that the whole of Pakistan is facing the brunt of whatever is happening and trying to cooperate with the U.S., and somehow the U.S. is like a mother-in-law which is just not satisfied with us,”…

  • Who Watches the Watchmen? on Drone Warfare

    A though provoking post by Kulsom from Changing up Pakistan she writes … the issue of drones goes beyond the issue of legality. It touches on the progression of warfare as a whole. Arguably the foundation of international law, is really being compromised in favor of the arbitrarily defined “greater good.” This is not to…

  • US considered Cyber Attacking Libya & Pakistan

    The New York Times is reporting that the United States nearly chose to use “cyber weaponry” just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March by hacking into the Libyan government’s air defense control systems. While the exact techniques remain classified, the goal would have been to break through the firewalls of the Libyan government’s…

  • Daniyal Noorani presents Own2Feet

    Daniyal Noorani presents a music video “Own2Feet” telling the story of dysfunctional partners and highlights some of the issues observed in US-Pak relations. I believe in a mere 4 minutes Daniyal has presented a true picture of the imbalance of the US-Pakistan relationship possibly suggesting that its time for Pakistanis to standup for their own…

  • Addressing Pakistan’s Sovereignty Deficit

    Christine Fair writes a fairly good assessment of the Pakistan-US love-hate relationship at the German Marshall Fund of the United States to say -> The Pakistan government’s inability to provide for the security and prosperity of its own people has led to questions about its sovereignty, whether in terms of its monopoly of violence, fiscal solvency, or…

  • 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…

  • US and NATO imperialism in South Asia: The developing Pakistan Quagmire

    After some nationalist and anti-imperialist elements succeeded in defeating the elaborate US and British plans to install two of their puppets- Parvez Musharraf and the late Benazir Bhutto-in the highest government offices in Pakistan, another puppet, Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir’s husband-also known as Mr. Ten Percent, because of his corruption and demanding and taking systematic…

  • 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…