A former senior American intelligence official has for the first time conceded that the only incorrupt people in Afghanistan are the Taliban and suggested “If you want no corruption, give the government back to the Taliban.” In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel CIA agent Michael Scheuer who supervised the CIA work in Afghanistan [...]
9/11 dramatically converted Pakistan from an international outcast under a military dictator aligned with extremist Taliban regime in Kabul to become a key strategic partner of America’s war on terror. This change in status brought about by USA did not come about out of the blue but under a well conceived design. While Afghanistan was [...]
CRASH OF AIRBUS 320 OUTSIDE ISLAMABAD NOW BELIEVED HIJACKED, HEADING FOR NUKE FACILITY Informed sources in the Government of Pakistan have told Veterans Today that they are developing “hard evidence” indicating the Jet Blue Airbus 320 that crashed July 28th outside Islamabad was a terrorist hijacking tied to rogue American security forces operating inside that [...]
We don’t need to help Islam and serve it as much as we should help and serve ourselves with the help of Islam. There is a video which propagates a negative image of Islam and among many I have been asked to write against it and dispel the misunderstanding about Islam. I would submit that [...]
The aging man in mud-splattered, frayed clothes has barely lowered his body onto the sidewalk when the money starts piling up. Heeding his call for donations for flood victims, Pakistanis of all classes rush to hand over cash to Abdul Sattar Edhi, whose years of dedication to the poor have made him a national icon. [...]
With the 9th anniversary of 9/11 fast approaching – I cannot take my mind off the ‘prophetic’ talk between Fox News anchorman John Gibson and columnist Stu Bykofsky in August 2007 in which Stu Bykofsky claimed that America needs a new 9/11 to unite the American people, because they have “forgotten” who the enemy is. [...]
Lately, we have been too depressed to notice a piece of real good news. Our very own ISI has been ranked the world’s top intelligence agency. And just in case one had never heard of the “smashing lists website”, a look at it would be worth its while. The ratings are done professionally. That the [...]
Despite its terrible troubles, this part of the western subcontinent is lively, beautiful and misunderstood. I’ve worked in Mumbai and been in India many times, but have always had an ill-concealed soft spot for Pakistan, which sits in the west of the subcontinent. Pakistan has a much longer history than its three-generational link to 1947 [...]
Fox News have recently been at the forefront of whipping up hysteria about the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”. This is actually quite a major turnaround for them, considering that Fox had previously interviewed both Imam Rauf (the head of the Cordoba Initiative) and his wife Daisy Khan, and their attitudes towards these individuals and their [...]
…and making money out of Pakistani misfortune • Someone in the Zardari government is colluding with the Indians and flooding Pakistani markets with Indian produce • Zardari govt. colluded with US to allow Afghan-India trade at Pakistan’s expense • Whose side is the Pakistani govt. on: India’s side, America’s side, or Pakistan’s side? • Stop [...]
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