Category Archives: Have Your Say

Indian RAW, IB got shame

Marya Mufty, Lahore

Thanks to normalizing trade links with the neighboring country. The Indian authorities and intelligence agencies faced sweating shame over wrongly dubbing five Pakistani businessmen, mobile retailers, as terrorists who were said to have entered Mumbai for a terror attack. Continue reading

Forgotten! The still buried under ice?

F Z Khan, Islamabad

Last month witnessed one of the biggest national tragedies of the country but it seems everybody has forgot it as it was a routine matter. Continue reading

Are we waiting for an American apology?

Alya Alvi, Rawalpindi

The American military claimed responsibility and expressed regret for an airstrike that mistakenly killed six members of a family in southwestern Afghanistan. Continue reading

Drone Diplomacy Sows Legitimacy

Eschmall Sardar, Peshawar

Drone attacks by the imperialist America get a legal cover from ‘might is right’ pre-emptive doctrine introduced by the former Bush administration. The UN officials, the international court of justice experts, the international law and the world community has not only time and again questioned the unilateral Continue reading

Have Your Say: Chan’s expulsion bears a lesson

Marya Mufty, Lahore

Al-Jazeera TV Channel was forced by the Chinese authorities to close its China news operations. Its correspondent, Melissa Chan, an American, was expelled from Beijing after the government refused requests to renew her press credentials or to allow another correspondent to replace her. Continue reading

Unilateral withdrawal will be suicidal

F Z Khan, Islamabad

One remembers Indian intelligence agency RAW’s founder chief Vikrum Suud’s article he wrote some years back in which he suggested to the Indian government and military establishment to shun the popular-among-Indian-strategists idea of launching an offensive through its armour divisions from Rajasthan’s side in order to ripe apart the Pakistani Punjab and Sindh entering from Bahawalpur and penetrating into Balochistan. Continue reading

What are you waiting for?

F Z Khan, Islamabad

How many more soldiers would you need to be hand-tied by the military-order from its high command only to be left at the mercy of barbarian ‘Taliban’ to be killed and beheaded? The Salala check-post was attacked and it took hours to establish GHQ-NATO commanders’ contact in order to establish whether the bombardment that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers was by mistake or by design, but the result was obvious deaths to which no remorse has been shown till now. Continue reading

Have Your Say: Zawahiri in Pakistan!

Eschmall Sardar, Hayatabad, Peshawar

That Zawahiri is in Pakistan is no surprise. Whether the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is right or wrong, they will make him present in Pakistan as she vows to take a similar unilateral action like that of Abbottabad last year. Continue reading

Unilateral withdrawal will be suicidal

F Z Khan, Islamabad

One remembers Indian intelligence agency RAW’s founder chief Vikrum Suud’s article he wrote some years back in which he suggested to the Indian government and military establishment to shun the popular-among-Indian-strategists idea of launching an offensive through its armour divisions from Rajasthan’s side in order to ripe apart the Pakistani Punjab and Sindh entering from Bahawalpur and penetrating into Balochistan. Continue reading

Forgotten! The still buried under ice?

F Z Khan, Islamabad

Last month witnessed one of the biggest national tragedies of the country but it seems everybody has forgot it as it was a routine matter. Surprisingly, was the fate of 139 soldiers of Pakistan Army’s 6 Northern Light Infantry Battalion not enough? Continue reading