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Its not Ch. Nisar who lacks the resolve to do something. The fault lies with our military which lacks the vision to understand the only good pseudo religious militant is a dead one. For years the establishment nurtured these pseudo religious Salafi-inspired thugs, and slowly but surely, all...

So are these the good taliban or the bad taliban? Maybe Mr. Imran Khan can enlighten us.

DAWN ISLAMABAD: Gunmen dressed as paramilitary police killed nine foreign tourists in an unprecedented attack in the Himalayas of Nanga Parbat on Sunday, in a security failure bound to embarrass the new government just weeks after it took office. The bodies of the victims were shifted to...

Exactly right - the Salafis also tend to label any muslim who doesn't tow their line as apostate and liable for execution - a practice known as takfir.

Actually - their version of sharia is better described as salafi ideology imported from the Salafis in Saudi - a viciously fascist Najdi tribal doctrine masquerading as religion, that seeks to establish a salafi fiefdom in our backyard. The Salafis in Saudi and their TTP/LeJ/Al Qaeda foot...

Express Tribune And finally, for those who are adamant that Pakistan speak to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) because the Americans are talking to the Afghan Taliban, the Afghan Taliban are asking for their country back, rightly or wrongly, grabbed by them. But their country nonetheless...

Express Tribune The terrorist attack on the residency in Ziarat, Balochistan, where Muhammad Ali Jinnah spent the last days of his life has created a lot of anxiety in some parts of the country. Made by the British, the building was pleasing to the eyes and part of Balochistan’s heritage...

Express Tribune The terrorist attack on the residency in Ziarat, Balochistan, where Muhammad Ali Jinnah spent the last days of his life has created a lot of anxiety in some parts of the country. Made by the British, the building was pleasing to the eyes and part of Balochistan’s heritage...

To be fair, Kiyani deserves credit for recently admitting that the state can no longer afford parallel non-state armed militias. He also recognized that the internal threat poses the biggest danger to the nation. That seems to indicate that the military's worldview is shifting in the right...

The Balochistan Cauldron DAWN THE latest bloodbath in Quetta is yet another grim reminder of Balochistan’s dangerous slide into anarchy. The gruesome killing of women students and the subsequent siege of the Bolan Medical Complex indicate the growing stridency of the militants and raises...

Senators suspect 'elements within security apparatus' of being involved in Quetta attacks Dawn ISLAMABAD: Senators from both treasury and opposition benches called on Monday for bringing the security apparatus and intelligence agencies under civilian and parliamentary control to improve the...

Agreed - JI is a known supporter of TTP and takes orders from the Salafis in Saudi. In addition to the examples above, most people know that Siraj ul Haq, the current senior minister in KP, has been known to attend funerals of slain TTP militants. During the war in Swat, military discovered...

I completely agree with you in terms of there being a need for a patriotic narrative that is not held hostage by pseudo religious concerns or imperial agendas. However, I disagree with your putting the onus on the citizen to keep the PA patriotic. The soldiers have sworn to protect this...

Are you saying the military has learnt nothing from the past and is still protecting/ignoring these sectarian bastxards? If that's the case then we are in serious trouble! Clearly the primary decision maker when it comes to formulating security policy, if our own military doesn't recognize the...

The bigger question is why did the soldier(the colonel) sell out his country and people? There is nothing worse than a soldier who turns against the very country and people he had sworn to protect! This is what happens when you allow fascist ideologies like the Salafi doctrine to infect the...

What is the military doing to weed out these LeJ and TTP sympathizers/moles?

Can someone in the military comment on what is the current popular thinking within the Army when it comes to dealing with LeJ? Admittedly, the military establishment foolishly enough, nurtured these thugs for so-called strategic reasons back in the day. That said, one would like to think the...

October 2012 (Reuters) - About 20 men dressed as Pakistani soldiers boarded a bus bound for a Muslim festival outside this mountain town and checked the identification cards of the passengers. They singled out 19 Shi'ites, drew weapons and slaughtered them, most with a bullet to the head. The...

Here are a few more facts for you. Malik Ishaq?s bail plea rejected - DAWN.COM DAWN March 28, 2013 ISLAMABAD: A judge in the eastern city of Lahore on Saturday rejected a request for bail made by Malik Ishaq, the founder of the banned Laskhar-e-Jangvi group, a senior police official Ijaz Shafi...

To be fair, there is a important difference between baloch militancy and the Salafi-inspired mayhem wrought by LeJ and TTP. The nationalists are ostensibly fighting for rights for the baloch community and their grievances can possibly be discussed within the framework of the constitution and...