The Myth of Drone Attacks

As the drone hit the area of Miranshah in North Waziristan on 8 December 2009, among the ashes and ruins of the houses, I saw an old man sobbing and remarking with anger and desperation, They are killing us mercilessly. We are also a part a Pakistan. They assassinated my innocent family. We were not [...]

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 [...]

Superficial efforts of USA to defuse Indo-Pakistan antagonism

Indo-Pakistan relations have remained strained since the inception of two states in August 1947. Some of the reasons of undying animosity are the Hindu-British nexus during the British rule in India which persecuted the Indian Muslims and played a perverse role while dividing India. Pakistan was loaded with innumerable complex problems so as to extinguish [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Conspiracy of Equating Militancy and Islam

It is quite fashionable to use the term “Islamic Militants” even by local print media to identify “Muslims” who perpetrate acts of terror in the country and around the world. Of course,people responsible for such acts need to be condemned in the strongest possible terms, but, heedless use of the expression “Islamic Militants” has far [...]

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 [...]

Indo-US Mutual Deceptions

Indo-US relationship which has strengthened rapidly after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union is, in fact, based upon mutual self-deceptions. Overtly, both the powers are taking steps to further stabilise their ties, but covertly they are fulfilling their self-interests at the cost of each other. In these terms, while acting upon the ‘shrewd strategies’ [...]

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 [...]

Waziristan Operation – Some Ground Realities

South Waziristan, given a combination of forbidding terrain and entrenched presence of the hardcore elements of TTP and al-Qaeda fighters, is a tough military nut to crack. The situation has been building up for a considerable time and as the Pakistan Army moves ahead to eliminate and flush out some of the most feared al-Qaeda [...]

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 [...]

Terrorism Not Militancy

Are we heading towards a blind alley? Is this war in Waziristan going to be a death knell for 170 million Pakistanis? Will the anti-Muslim Alliedforces succeed in wiping off Pakistan from the world map? Most of the Pakistanis are going to say No in response to all these questions; simply because they have confidence [...]

Rationale behind Waziristan Operation

After taking cognizance of the deteriorating security situation, emanating from the recent terror-attacks inside the country, Pakistans Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani briefed the political leadership on October 16 in connection with themilitary operation against the militants of South Waziristan. Next day, the ground operation, Rah-i-Nijat (Path to Deliverance) was launched after weeks of [...]

Pakistan Crushed Foreign Sponsored Terrorism

Foreign sponsored terrorists targeted four security forces installations in Pakistan on October 15, 2009. In the morning at least 10 persons have been killed in a suicide car blast on Saddar police station, Kohat, whereas many others sustained injuries. The irony of this explosion was that a school carrying children van has also become the [...]

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 [...]

Emergence of Communal Taliban

Source: http://www.markthetruth.com The culmination of WW–II gave birth to cold war which led to USSR Invasion and her ultimate disintegration. The dissolution of Soviet Union produced Taliban and Al- Qaeda. It is worth mentioning here that former President Bush invited their top brass at White House and addressed them as war lords. But after the [...]

Taliban and Jihad – what’s the thought? by Nadia Khan

Source: http://www.markthetruth.com What if we read Holy Quran and Hadiths of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) without the context of Jihad, there could be number of people, both in West & East, who would feel happier than before? Because they feel that the root cause of today’s crisis is Jihadi approach of radical Muslims. [...]

US Watch Dogs need to be Chained

  Source:  http://www.markthetruth.com Zaheerul Hassan The world scenario has been changed after Russian disintegration. The Uni-polar system emerged and US started enjoying the status of supreme power of the world. US has selected Israel, India , Uk , South Korea and international organizations like IMF, IAEA , UNO and EEC to act as her watch [...]

Could Taliban become real Islamic force for Islamization? by Nadia Khan

 Source: http://www.markthetruth.com Nadia Khan Beside the hardest hitting media campaign by secularists against Taliban -though the real target is religious forces- this question remains there, “Could Taliban be cleansed to become a true source for Islamization in Pakistan?” To find out the answer we need to review the status of present day Taliban and yester [...]

US & NATO Forces Silence over Terrorist’s Border Crossing

  Source: http://www.markthetruth.com Zaheerul Hassan Pakistan Security Forces are successfully fighting an enforced battle all along her western boundaries since 2001. In the on going operation, the Security forces killed more than 1300 militants till May 27, 2009 and taken over the control of eight Mingora city intersections after intense clashes with the Taliban. As [...]