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“Delivering Without Taking the Credit”
The United States and Pakistan reached tacit agreement in September on a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy that allows unmanned Predator aircraft to attack suspected terrorist targets in rugged western Pakistan, according to senior officials in both countries. In recent months, the U.S. drones have fired missiles at Pakistani soil at an average rate of once every four [...]
Senator That Supported Baluchistan Honour Killing Rewarded with Ministry
Picked this up from Teeth Maestro’s blog: In a very shocking turn of events Mr. Asif Ali Zardari yesterday expanded his cabinet with 40 members and inducted a very controversial Senator Mir Israrullah Zehri. Mr Israrullah Zehri a few months back in August stood up in the Senate and justified the crime of burying women [...]
Pakistan Declared a War Zone – Asif Haroon Raja
In the 9/11 terrorist attacks on twin towers in New York in which about 3000 persons died, no Afghan or Pakistani was involved. All the 19 perpetrators of the crime were Arabs, mostly hailing from Saudi Arabia. Yet the wrath of USA fell on Afghanistan for a bizarre reason that the so-called master mind behind [...]
Anjum Niaz Has It Right – Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is
Anjum Niaz is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reporting. This post was picked up from Pak Markaz and puts it straight for our “leaders” to understand. We whole-heartedly support this plan instead of an IMF bailout. After China’s reluctance to bail us out, what next? The Saudis [...]
World Economic Crisis Pushes Pakistan Close to Collapse – LA Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Take a restive, nuclear-armed nation with an untested new government, an escalating Islamic insurgency, long-standing tensions with its neighbors and an economy in free fall for months. Then add in a global financial crisis. Some analysts and diplomats fear that Pakistan could come to exemplify a perilous new phenomenon: a strategic but [...]
Pakistan: A Country on Fire – Ayesha Siddiqa
The bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on 20 September 2008 has hit Pakistan hard. The reputation of the hotel as a meeting-point and social hub for the capital’s political and diplomatic class ensured that the attack – which killed fifty-three people and wounded 250 – would receive the maximum worldwide publicity that the [...]
Exiles’ Return – Mohammad Hanif
When Mohammed Hanif left Pakistan in 1996, it was ruled by Benazir Bhutto and the Taliban were being touted as the saviours of Afghanistan. Now her widower has become president, and the Taliban want to save Pakistan too. Two weeks ago, after 12 years in London, I moved back to Pakistan. The week I arrived, [...]
Hamid Mir On Rohi TV
This was sent to us by a regular reader and commenter on Take Back Pakistan. After listening to it, we felt it must be heard. We will try to post a translated version of Hamid’s assessment tomorrow so that our non-Pakistanis can understand what he said. Sphere: Related Content
Attacking Pakistan? Don’t Do It – Aijaz Zaka Syed
Back home in the sub-continent, they say you should always stay away from the cops; their friendship as well as adversity is bad for one’s health. I am reminded of the advice as the world’s chief cop, the United States, bombs its allies and friends in Pakistan. With friends like these, do you really need [...]
Pakistan is Turning to No. 10 – Guardian UK
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark are the authors of Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy. After claiming to have spent nine years nurturing democracy in Pakistan and festooning the country’s military dictatorship with $11bn in aid, the Bush administration’s policy is careering out of control, as US soldiers trade bullets with [...]
The New President and The Future of Democracy – Ayesha Ijaz Khan
In November last year, as I tried to rally support for our pro-judiciary demonstration outside the Pakistani High Commission in London, one of my friends, who runs a threading salon and is least interested in politics, cynically asked me, “What are you trying to do? Make Asif Zardari president?” She asked the question in ignorance [...]
Whither Sovereignty? – Yousuf Nazar
The first-ever ground military attack on Pakistan’s soil by the US-led troops on Sept 3 provoked strong condemnation and outrage in Pakistan. Now the cat is out of the bag. The New York Times said the raids were authorised by President Bush “without the approval of the Pakistani government.” The Chairman of the US Joint [...]
Making a Joke of Democracy – Anjum Niaz
The writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reporting. Here’s the unmentionable truth: if today Pakistan had an independent judiciary, Asif Ali Zardari may not have been the president. The 107 legislators who voted for him in the NWFP assembly would have faced disqualification for breaking the [...]