Tag Archives: S M Hali
Germany: The Unity Day
Posted on09. Oct, 2011 by Raja Mujtaba.
By Raja G Mujtaba Germans are a rare and a pure breed that has its own pride in her Aryan roots. It’s this pride that keeps her unique in many ways. Today, most of the Pakistanis are also Aryans as a result of Aryan migration from Germany in times immemorial. Perhaps, this maybe one of [...]
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Pakistan Air Force Day: A forgotten fete
Posted on07. Sep, 2011 by S M Hali.
By S. M. Hali September 7 was observed as “Air Force Day”; till President Musharraf declared September 6, to be jointly commemorated as “Defence Day of Pakistan” for all three services. Air Force Day was being observed because of PAF’s overwhelming preponderance over an air force many times its size in 1965. Pakistan Army’s 12 [...]
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Pakistan needs a Anna Hazare
Posted on24. Aug, 2011 by S M Hali.
By S M Hali:
During the 1965 Pak-India War, deployed at the Khemkaran sector, a Pakistani attack killed all his comrades in his convoy. His near brush with death convinced Kisan that he had been saved for a purpose, which he soon discovered through a booklet titled “Call to the youth for nation building” by Swami Vivekananda in a book stall at the New Delhi railway station. He realized that saints sacrificed their own happiness for that of others, and that he needed to work towards ameliorating the sufferings of the poor.
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Chinese Aircraft Carrier-US Concerns
Posted on19. Aug, 2011 by S M Hali.
By S. M. Hali:
Analysts are claiming that they have not seen any catapult or arrester wire system on board from satellite photographs thus they are speculating that China will use its aircraft carrier only for helicopters. Without catapults or arrester wires, the carrier will not be able to operate any airborne early-warning aircraft needed to provide comprehensive radar coverage for fleets.
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Target ISI
Posted on05. Aug, 2011 by S M Hali.
By S M Hali:
However, as the going in Afghanistan got tougher, the whispering started becoming louder, with newspaper reports, Op-Eds suggesting the same becoming more frequent. Complications in operations, rising war casualties and frayed nerves gave rise to RAND Corporation reports and Pentagon analyses that “rogue elements” in ISI were leaking information of impending attacks to the Taliban, allowing them to take evasive action.
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Mumbai Blasts: 13/7 an intelligence failure
Posted on25. Jul, 2011 by S M Hali.
By S M Hali:
The usual perpetrators of the blame game against Pakistan, the RAW sponsored South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG) and its hate mongers spewing venom against Pakistan, B. Raman—former Additional Secretary RAW and Rajeev Sharma—have so far been objective in their analysis. B. Raman considers the Mumbai blasts of 13/7 as an intelligence failure and takes his own Home Minister P. Chidambaram to task for claiming otherwise. Rajeev Sharma praises his government for displaying maturity in not canceling the peace talks but tongue in cheek,
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US revisits war strategy
Posted on07. Jul, 2011 by S M Hali.
By S M Hali:
Drones have been in use with United States for over two decades but since 9/11, US drone fleet has grown from a few dozen to 7,000. But in Pakistan, the US made the first killer drone strike on June 18, 2004, since then there was a gradual rise in the number of drone attacks but the White House rapidly enhanced the number of drone strikes since the advent of President Obama.
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Gradual ascent of Chinese economy
Posted on24. Jun, 2011 by S M Hali.
By S M Hali:
China has a firm control over its economy. Prudent planning, astute strategizing and futuristic forecasting has brought Chinese economy from the downtrodden and battered in the 1950s, to the current state where it is second only to the US but according to the IMF, likely to overtake it by 2016.
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Afghanistan: Where is the political surge?
Posted on15. Jun, 2011 by S M Hali.
By S. M. Hali Last week’s Afghan militants’ rampage in Dir with 300 Afghan based militants attacking villages after storming through the check post being manned jointly by the police and Levies at Shaltalo in Barawal Valley, Dir Upper, killing several security personnel, is a cause for serious concern. The incident is allegedly in retaliation [...]
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Selective WikiLeaks Expose
Posted on03. Jun, 2011 by S M Hali.
By Sultan M Hali:
Some people have started believing in the WikiLeaks as if they were the gospel truth. The fact is that anything having a dubious origin must be taken with a pinch of salt. This scribe is not privy to any conspiracy regarding the WikiLeaks being a creation of the figment of imagination of the CIA, but the latest exposé by WikiLeaks, definitely gives the semblance of a selective use of information to damage the image of the Pakistani armed forces in the eyes of average Pakistanis; to make them more accessible, the medium selected for dissemination is Pakistani dailies.
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