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Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam: Heretic or a Scapegoat
By A KHOKAR June 03, 2010 For any humble citizen of Pakistan; religion may not be the criteria of one’s nationality, as Islam, a peace loving religion, teaches that ‘there is no compulsion in religion’[2;256] and there should not occur any clash in understanding one another as ‘For me is my work and for you is your work. You are not responsible for what I do and I am not responsible for what you do.[10:41]. But it is seen that in the mull of the history of Pakistan, this has been the practice that whenever some government saw their boat bottom hitting the rocks ...
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Americans have got Blood of Millions at Their Hands.
By A Khokar July 28, 2010 The ground breaking release of wikileaks may serve strengthening the anti war lobbyist or exposing the follies of against Obama administration at home or not——but on the battle fields in Afghanistan, wikileaks material brings no surprise for any one. In the battle fields, Wikileaks is sure an attempt to pressurise Pakistan and the fixation of its ISI, the country which suffered the most as US ally; indicting them——playing a double game of abettin
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Afghanistan: The Pentagon’s Lost War
By William Pfaff Jul 27, 2010 While it is unquestionable that Barack Obama made the war in Afghanistan “his” war, it also is true that it was served to him on a platter and with a gun pressed against his back. It was in fact the Pentagon’s chosen war. Had he refused to fight it, Pentagon insider stories, the opposition press and the Republican Party would have attacked him and his new administration for demonstrating incompetence in dealing with world affairs, naive and pacif
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‘Wet Micro Burst’ may have caused the Air Blue crash at Margala Hills
Illustration of a microburst. Note the downward motion of the air until it hits ground level. It then spreads outward in all directions. The wind regime in a microburst is opposite to that of a tornado. **** Compiled by A Khokar July 27, 2010 Aviation security of USA is of the opinion that Keeping in view the sudden crash of the Air Blue aircraft, it is presumed that owing to the bad w
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Wickileaks: Afghan War Diary 2004-2010
Summary 25th July 2010; WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports Secret Documents covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail. The document collectio
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Taliban in Karachi
Pakistan Today Taliban in Karachi: Some very interesting Reports in Videos ---What are the answers to counter this? Children of the Taliban Why we can’t reach them when others they can. http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/04/24/multimedia/1194839767942/children-of-the-taliban.html A Militant Hideaway http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/07/17/world/1247463484696/a-militant-hideaway.html U.S. Concerns as Taliban Advance http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/04/23/w
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Pakistan’s Elite Pay Few Taxes, Widening Gap
By SABRINA TAVERNISE ---NY TIMES July 18, 2010 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Much of Pakistan’s capital city looks like a rich Los Angeles suburb. Shiny sport utility vehicles purr down gated driveways. Elegant multistory homes are tended by servants. Laundry is never hung out to dry. But behind the opulence lurks a troubling fact. Very few of these households pay income tax. That is mostly because the politicians who make the rules are also the country’s richest citizens, and ar
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A de facto partition of Afghanistan may bring Victory for US
Compiled by A Khokar July 18, 2010 The Obama administration’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan seems headed for failure. Given the alternatives, de facto partition of Afghanistan is on the table which is being considered as the best policy option available to the United States and its allies and mark it a Victory.. Even after the change of war horses that Gen David Petraeus, Iraqi insurgency fame commander is now the head of the forces in Afghanistan; this is felt
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All has just gone with the Wind
By A Khokar July 18, 2010 The most famous speech of Qaid e Azam (ra) which is quoted the most; is the speech of 11th August 1947 when he said: “You are free; free to go to your temples; you are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State.” That was the dream that Quid e Azam dreamt; but where is that Pakistan now and where is tha
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Our Ignorance may be pitting us against our God
By A Khokar July 15, 2010 Islam has its ancestral roots in Judea and Christianity. The Holy book of Quran; duly confirms and validates the old denominations and extensively uses and narrates the conduct of both the older nomens to high lights and quote their explicit examples in order to derive the guidance and Hikmah for the believers. God Almighty very sternly admonishes to discipline the believers that how best they may lead the life of righteousness and avoid those very situations whe
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Islamic State is secular in its nature.
By A khokar July 11, 2010 Islam is the modern religion that God has bestowed to the mankind to adopt it as their way of life. God Almighty started moulding its selected people to receive His initial guidance under the command of Ibrahim (as) and then advanced this training cadre for the next many generations in the light of the commandments of Torah; sent through Moses to impart the commandment and to train Israelite.... till they needed reformation and Jesus came. T
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