Drone’s Phobia & Obama’s Strategy

President Barack Obama has finally announced his long-awaited new US strategy on Afghanistan after extensive consultations with his advisers: some wanted to increase 30,000 additional troops so that they could concentrate their effort in the south and southeast, in the provinces that border Pakistan, while others advocated at concentrating on the strongholds from where the [...]

US scheme of defending homeland security is childish

USA is the largest economic power of the world and strongest military power in human history. Its moral, political, and diplomatic strength which was at its peak till 9/11 has drastically eroded after the fateful event. Collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 had provided a great opportunity to USA to rule the world as a [...]

Allegory about Afghan Shura and Al-Qaeda in Pakistan

Like the myth of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda headquartered in FATA which I discussed in my previous write up, another absurd claim has been made that Mullah Omar along with his Shura is based in Quetta. This story woven by spin doctors has caught the imagination of policy makers in Washington and they are [...]

Osama bin Laden – a myth or reality

Among the 19 hijackers that struck targets in New York and Washington on 9/11, none was an Afghani or Pakistani. They were Arab Muslims, mostly from Saudi Arabia, based in Europe and trained in USA, in all probability by Jews. Yet all hell broke on Afghanistan and now Pakistan is being punished for its uncommitted [...]

War against Pakistan

Desperate and defeated militants started hitting innocents and peaceful men, women and children of Pakistan. On December 7, 2009 four blasts rocked Peshawar, Lahore and Quetta. In the morning at 10 am a suicide bomber came on a rickshaw, killed at least ten people in Peshawar when he blew himself up near the courthouse located [...]

US New Strategy – An Analysis

Finally, the much awaited Afghan Strategy was unfurled by President Obama in a speech delivered at the United States Military Academy on 1st December 2009. In the back drop of former President George Bush’s call to arms post 9/11, Obama’s wartime address sounded like an endgame rather than a striking escalation of the US presence [...]

Obama’s Conflict-ridden Afghan Plan

According to a recent US Government Accountability Office audit report, nearly 13,000 attacks were recorded in Afghanistan between January and the end of August 2009. There was an average of 100 attacks a day on international forces, Afghan security forces and ordinary civilians, which makes the figure 2.5 times higher this year than that of [...]

Pakistan and not Afghanistan worries USA

Announcement of Af-Pak policy by Barack Obama last March led to shifting of centre of gravity of war on terror from Iraq to Afghanistan and resultant induction of 21000 US troops into Afghanistan from Iraqi theatre. With available extra forces the new commander Gen McChrystal, launched a well orchestrated operation in Helmand in July with [...]

Pakistan is a target and not a US ally

Either Obama Administration is totally confused or is inept or is purposely behaving wickedly. What is certain is that it is not behaving straight and with honesty of purpose? Lot of hopes were pinned on Obama in the Muslim world that he will undo the wrongs inflicted upon the Muslims by Bush led draconian regime. [...]

New Afghan Policy

Subjected to the law and order conditions in the coming years, the US authorities have decided to begin the withdrawal of their forces from Afghanistan by the mid of 2011.This news might have been a ray of hope and happiness for the distressed people of the region if it were not accompanied by another reference [...]

India Entraps the US in Afghanistan

Although the US President Obama has announced that he will send an extra 30,000 US troops to fight the war in Afghanistan, yet his revised strategy also includes exit strategy as he has indicated that withdrawal of forces will start in July 2011. In this context, on November 15, US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton [...]

India and USA hand-in-glove

India-US-UK-Israel nexus is hand-in-glove and conspiring to harm Pakistan. Pakistan has been profusely bled by the nexus based in Kabul for the last eight years but they call themselves as friends of Pakistan. Our leaders reciprocate their sentiments and go out of the way to please them. There has been no change in this policy [...]

Contrasting responses to catastrophes

Tens of 9/11 in USA, 12/12 in New Delhi and 26/11 in Mumbai, and 7/7 in London have taken place in Pakistan during the last five years. Devastating terrorist and suicide attacks killing scores of people and destroying property worth billions have occurred in major cities. Balochistan, FATA, NWFP, Malakand Division including Swat are engulfed [...]

Indian PM Visit to US & Pakistan

Indian intelligence agencies launched a comprehensive media and psychological warfare against Pakistan prior to their Prime Minister Visit to USA. In this connection, New Delhi has raised numbers of issues to malign China, Pakistan, and its intelligence Agencies in her domestic communal conflicts.Indian started pretending them as a great victim of terrorism just to divert [...]

Manmohan Singh visits USA

USA is losing its War on Terror in Afghanistan; now it is the talk of the town that. Different analysts are suggesting to the US authorities to think of the ways of getting out of the blazing hell of Afghanistan. It is also in the air that the Taliban would never let the Americans go [...]

Campaign against Pak Nukes

Barack Hussein Obama in June, 2009 while visiting Cairo revealed, I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. [...]

Composite Dialogue Process and the Indian Flip-Flops

India remains a diehard proponent of bilateral interaction for addressing intractable issues afflicting Indo-Pak relations; particularly the festering issue of Kashmir. This strategy of stonewalling, however, is fast becoming irrelevant due to the US led intervention in Afghanistan and the fight against extremism in FATA being conducted in the backdrop of a prominent Indian foot [...]

Why War Envelops the US Homeland?

On November 5, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, while shouting Allahu Akbar (God is Great), opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, in a US military base, killing 13 and injuring more than 24 persons. After fourteen hours, two people were killed and six were hurt in the second mass shooting inthe United States [...]

The Myth of Quetta Shura

As the US and NATO leadership struggle to find a way out of the Afghan quicksand, amid a growing concern caused by the mounting casualties and enhancing strength of Afghan resistance, the US rhetoric seems to be getting focused on the city of Quetta. According to US assessment, the city houses the top echelon of [...]

Removal of Afghan Border Check Posts

Since October 17, this year when Pakistans armed forces started the military operation, Rah-i-Nijat (Path to Deliverance), they have been rapidly achieving successes by destroying the strongholds of the Waziristan-based militants. In this regard, the Chief of the Inter-Services Public Relations, Maj-Gen. Athar Abbas indicated that within a few days, at least 137 militants have [...]

Unstable Afghanistan – The India Factor

It was the fall of Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001 that paved the way for foreign powers to intervene in Afghanistan to secure their strategic interests. The strategic location of Afghanistan provides a perfect conduit for extracting and channeling vast energy resources of Central Asia to their respective countries. However, the ingress made by [...]

India-Israel selfishly restraining USA from abandoning Afghanistan

The British, German and the French military commanders in Afghanistan as well as of other Nato countries having fought the resistance forces in Afghanistan for the last eight years to subdue militancy are now having second thoughts. They say that force is not the answer and a political settlement through process of dialogue should be [...]

Kabul Blast near Indian Embassy: Plot against Pakistan

On October 8, a large suicide bomb exploded near the Indian embassy of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 17 people and wounding dozens. The blast exploded across the road, where the office of the Afghan Interior Ministry is also located. New Delhi said that its embassy had been the target of the attack, but its [...]

Hullabaloo over Afghan Elections

Afghanistan conducted yet another election on 20th August to elect a President for itself with lots of hopes for a better future tomorrow. Despite a lot of Taliban threats tothe Afghan populace not to cast their votes or else they would face severe consequences, there were a considerable number of them who turned out to [...]

‘McChrystal’ Clear: Indian Shadow over Afghanistan

As the Obama administration faces tough choices in finding a way out of the Afghan morass, a 66-page report by General Stanley McChrystal plainly outlines the stark situation that now confronts the top military commander in Afghanistan. The ‘leaked’ report makes a case for sending additional troops to Afghanistan or else the conflict “will likely [...]