Search results

DAWN ANOTHER day, another set of statements by a TTP leader making it crystal clear — as though it were not already clear enough — just what the militants’ agenda is. This time it was the kingpin himself, Hakeemullah Mehsud, emir of the TTP, who told the BBC that one of the principal reasons he...

DAWN ANOTHER day, another set of statements by a TTP leader making it crystal clear — as though it were not already clear enough — just what the militants’ agenda is. This time it was the kingpin himself, Hakeemullah Mehsud, emir of the TTP, who told the BBC that one of the...

Finally.....the cat is out of the bag - So much for the good Taliban! ------------------------------------------ The Afghan Taliban are bankrolling their counterparts in Pakistan and providing sanctuary for them in their own country, The Associated Press reported on Sunday. The disclosure...

The TTP Sharia is not based on Islam. However, it is a core element of the Salafi doctrine. The TTP thugs are directly influenced by AQ and their Salafi benefactors in Saudi. The goal of the TTP is to carve out a Salafi emirate covering Fata and some of the settled areas such as Swat. Ths is...

Ejaz Haider Let me try and explain again for those who just can’t seem to get it. 1) The current war that Pakistan finds itself in is a product not just of external developments (the US-led, UN-mandated attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan) but also of two other, very important factors...

DAWN THE government’s ardent pursuit of talks with the Taliban has largely been met with stoicism from the army high command — until now. Publicly, the army leadership has been keen to play up its deference to the constitutional chain of command and accept whatever decision the...

The Peace Delusion DAWN The Peace Delusion WHILE approaching our problem of terror and courting peace in earnest there is no room for false bravado. Why object to state functionaries sitting down with disaffected citizens if that can sort out misconceptions that have angered or deluded...

The Peace Delusion DAWN The Peace Delusion WHILE approaching our problem of terror and courting peace in earnest there is no room for false bravado. Why object to state functionaries sitting down with disaffected citizens if that can sort out misconceptions that have angered or deluded...

Agreed. JI should be dismantled and their leaders thrown in jail. Any JI operative found guilty of harboring or aiding TTP/Al Qaeda terrorists should be shot.

The foreign AQ operative should be grilled about his local network as well as this foreign backers, and then hung upside down. I'm willing to bet the student organization sheltering him was the IJT linked to the Jamaat Islami. The JI has been vocal supporters of Al Qaeda and its affliates such...

Finally....the EU calling a spade a spade - Saudi Arabia's complicity in funding anti state Salafi-inspired militants who are busy killing Pakistanis everyday.

Nicely summarized. Precisely why we can never negotiate with these takfiri salafi idiots because there is nothing to negotiate. They only understand the way of the sword. Its time we put them to the sword.

An Unraveling State? Babar Sattar Here’s an old Punjabi joke. A farmer was watching a fellow farmer plough his farm. After a while they had a little conversation. Farmer 1 (the bystander) to Farmer 2, casually: your ploughshare isn’t running straight and you’re messing things up. Farmer...

An Unraveling State? Babar Sattar Here’s an old Punjabi joke. A farmer was watching a fellow farmer plough his farm. After a while they had a little conversation. Farmer 1 (the bystander) to Farmer 2, casually: your ploughshare isn’t running straight and you’re messing things...

DAWN KARACHI: A heavy contingent of Rangers carried out a major search operation at the Karachi Central Jail on Saturday, three days after a deadly attack on a senior judge in the city. Prison officials told Dawn.com that a large number of mobile phones, laptops and internet devices were...

KARACHI: Police and Rangers conducted a raid at the Central Jail in Karachi and found the mobile phone allegedly used to plan the attack targeting a senior judge in the city three days ago, reported Express News on Saturday. The raid was conducted on the basis of a tip-off given by an inmate in...

DAWN SHOCKING as it may be, despite the uncontrollable spiral of militant violence threatening to push the country beyond the brink, we do not have a coherent strategy to counter the grave challenges to our security. The new government now seems to have woken up to the need for devising a new...

Nicely summarized. While the writer talks about the military having the capacity to show the light, I believe it is not an issue of capacity but of will and intent. The military has always had the capacity to kill the jihxdi monster it spawned, but has never demonstrated the resolve or intent to...

Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: Amid calls for a national security policy, the National Assembly on Sunday unanimously passed a resolution condemning the attack on foreign climbers near a base camp to Nanga Parbat in the Gilgit-Baltistan region. “This is a deliberate attempt to undermine...

DAWN EVENTUALLY, the illogic of conspiracy will have to give way to reality. Waliur Rehman, a TTP leader mind-bogglingly referred to by Imran Khan as ‘pro-peace’, was killed by an American drone, so now the TTP has killed nine foreigners in remote Gilgit-Baltistan in revenge. And...