Archive for April, 2009
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It’s Time to Strike the Right Cord Now
By A Khokar 29 April 2009 There seems to be lot of confusion regarding Tehrik e Taliban-Pakistan (TTP) and it status. One is amazed to know that how a 'copy cat' bunch disguise as Taliban is allowed to operate along our western border es
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I Dreamed a Dream sings Susan Boyle
I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle - Singer -sings for 'Britains Got Talent 2009' I Dreamed a Dream An incredible Performance by Susan Boyle at 'Britains Got Talent 2009' YOUTUBE LINK HERE; http://www.youtube.com/wa
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Crush; these Greedy Taliban
By A Khokar 19 april 2009 The analysts keeping a keen eye on our war striven region are of the opinion that since Pakistan previously known as the fortress of Islam is on its down turn and found crippled; the key to the peace
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Armchair pilots striking FATA in Pakistan by remote control
CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada (CNN) -- From a desert outpost northwest of Las Vegas, elite fighter pilots journey to a war zone in Afghanistan, some 7,500 miles away. The Air Force's new unmanned bomber, the "Reaper," commutes from Nev
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Pakistan was near a military coup, then the US intervened
By A Khokar 16 April 2009 A month ago, Pakistan came close to a political breakdown that could have triggered a military coup. How that crisis developed - and how it was ultimately defused - illuminates the larger story of a country whose
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1953 and 1974-like situation being created again by the Right Wing
12 April 2009 Yasser Latif Hamdani In 1953, Khawaja Nazimuddin’s Muslim League Government at the center was brought down after sufficient unrest was created by Majlis-e-Ahrar (a party which had opposed the creation of Pakistan to
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EXCLUSIVE: Musharraf To China: Play A More Proactive Role
Pakistan’s Friends Roll Out The Red Carpet For A Pakistani Nationalist Statesman Throughout his trip in China, former President Musharraf was accorded head of state protocol and extensive security. In-between lectures, he was invited to several
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Flogging of a Girl in a Society where young ‘Lakhtaeys’ are so adored.
People saw the most despicable incident of flogging of girl in the public and this video was circulated throughout the world. She was treated with such impunity, which was so distressing for on lookers and so humiliating that we all may feel asha
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But the Drones: They fly from Bandari – Baluchistan
By A Khokar 09 April 2009 Pakistan's Foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a recent joint press conference with the special envoy to the region, Richard C. Holbrooke and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen at
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Obama’s Af-Pak Policy: The Four Questions
By A Khokar 06 April 2009 To gaze in one’s own navel: I thought I’d be listening to Obama’s Af-Pak speech for answers to four questions. But it seems to be same old war mongering rhetoric of US phony war since waged against the vulnerabl
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