Archive for December, 2011
Pakistan: Political Hub of the Few Dead People
Posted on28. Dec, 2011 by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja.
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. When an aggressor foresees the defeat coming, it resorts to massive killing and destruction of the habitats and tries to undo the “fear of unknown.” The recent killing of 24 Pakistani sleeping military men is the outcome of this American strategy working across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Late historian Professor Howard Zinn [...]
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What Mark Kingwell Sees: An Interview
Posted on28. Dec, 2011 by Kourosh Ziabari.
No political system can function without a free press: Mark Kingwell By Kourosh Ziabari Prof. Mark Kingwell is a world renowned Canadian author and philosopher. He is the associate chair at University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy. Kingwell is a fellow of Trinity College. He specializes in theories of politics and culture. Kingwell has published [...]
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Army’s constitutional role
Posted on28. Dec, 2011 by S M Hali.
General Kayani needs neither recommendation nor reference. His services to the state are well recorded. General Pasha, while serving as a Contingent and Sector Commander of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, was reverently known as the “Little General”. His contributions to the war on terror have earned him good repute. By S. M. [...]
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Imran Khan: Gaining Momentum
Posted on27. Dec, 2011 by Raja Mujtaba.
“When I think that Pakistan has come into being, it gives immense satisfaction to my soul; it was a difficult task, I could not have accomplished it alone. In doing so the blessings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) were with me; now it’s our responsibility that we fulfill our obligation by following Khulfae Rashideen so that [...]
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A Tale of Two Squares and Two Movements
Posted on27. Dec, 2011 by Franklin Lamb.
By Franklin Lamb Cairo This observer spent a good part of Christmas Eve divided between two main Cairo Squares, Tahrir and Abassiya, while waiting for a Visa from the Libyan Embassy. A tale of two Squares and two Movements Alexandria, 415 or 416 In the year 415 or 416, on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, [...]
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Take You’re Money and Shove it
Posted on27. Dec, 2011 by gordon.
Imran Khan on BBC Hardtalk By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor I feel sorry for anyone forced to go on BBC Hardtalk. Pakistan’s Imran Khan had to listen to endless blithering, worst of all about Osama bin Laden, the former CIA operative that died over a decade ago, almost immediately after suggesting that Israel should be [...]
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Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline: A PTV Talk
Posted on26. Dec, 2011 by Raja Mujtaba.
Defence & Diplomacy A project delayed beyond comprehension By Raja G Mujtaba The Federal Minister’s statement that Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline must go through bears a testimony to what I have been saying over a period of time that Pakistan and Iran have become need of each other therefore we must opt and at the earliest [...]
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NOTIONS OF STRATEGIC DEPTH
Posted on25. Dec, 2011 by Khalid Iqbal.
By Air Commodore ® Khalid Iqbal Drone and suicide bomber are the new facets of contemporary warfare; representing the concepts of ‘bomb without man’ and ‘man as a bomb’. Moreover, all nuclear states have a tendency to indulge in proxy wars through non-state actors and third party state actors. These warfare related innovations have altered [...]
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Pakistan: Pregnant with Possibilities
Posted on24. Dec, 2011 by Humayun Gauhar.
Opinion Maker “Prime Minister Gillani’s speech in the parliament was a provocation whereby the Army reacts and throws his government out, thus the inefficient and corrupt performance of his government could be traded off for a political martyrdom; Gen Kayani read the situation well and did not oblige hence now the PPP has no option [...]
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The Homeland Battlefield
Posted on23. Dec, 2011 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analysis By Lawrence Davidson Part I – Congress Attacks the Constitution The U.S. Congress has ended the year 2011 by assaulting the Constitution. The attack came in the form of the 2012 National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA) which passed both the House (December 14) and the Senate (December 15) by large margins despite [...]
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