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No Time to surrender Express Tribune A few days ago, 27 different political parties reached the common conclusion that the best way to deal with the Taliban was to negotiate with them. I have no words to describe my contempt for the worthies who attended that conclave. But I am reminded of...

No Time to Surrender Express Tribune A few days ago, 27 different political parties reached the common conclusion that the best way to deal with the Taliban was to negotiate with them. I have no words to describe my contempt for the worthies who attended that conclave. But I am reminded of...

Great Article. The TTP problem will only be solved when the military realizes that the dogs it bred once upon a time have gone rabid and there is no saving TTP or the other dogs of its ilk.

There can be no negotiation with the TTP. Like HM said, they want to dismantle the state, the system, the constitution.....everything. The goals is to set up a Salafi emirate that will be run by thugs taking their cues from Al Qaeda as well as their salafi militant supporters in Saudi Arabia...

Irfan Husain WINSTON Churchill is reported to have said: “An appeaser is a man who feeds a crocodile in the hope that it will eat him last.” If that’s our security establishment’s strategy against the extremists, it’s not working too well: as of last count, over...

DAWN WHEN is an offer to negotiate not really an offer to negotiate? When it is made by the TTP, it appears. First, Asmatullah Muawiya, leader of the so-called Punjabi Taliban, threw out a surprising feeler: give us a Sharia-compliant (read: the militants’ version of the Sharia)...

Jamaat i Islami is a paid stooge of its Salafi masters in Saudi. Not surprisingly, its leaders are openly supporting the Salafi militants led by TTP whose sole aim is to topple the government and establish a salafi emirate in the region. A lot of the JI leaders are notorious for attending...

DAWN NOWSHERA/BUNER, Dec 25: Former Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad on Tuesday said Pakistani Taliban should be allowed to open an office in the country to clear their position on acts of terrorism. Mr Qazi told reporters after a public meeting here that if the US could allow Afghan...

I would much rather believe the General's account. He is on the ground and knows the facts best - much more credible than the New America foundation! The blog author seems to be one of Gen Zia's remnants - these are the retired military officers, right wing clerics, and bureacrats who sold out...

Your analogy is naive. Firstly, the Amercians operate the drones with the consent of the pakistani government and military. Secondly, the government is quite happy for the most part to let the Americans target the Salafi-inspired terrorists (with the exception of the Haqqani group) sittting in...

I fully support MQM in our nation's fight against TTP. Finally, there is a political party with the guts to take on the TTP!

I agree for the most part - the PA is handling these thugs with kid gloves. However, while the military needs to inject some sense into its strategic calculus, it also needs to get its house in order in terms of preventing reverse indoctrination of its rank and file.

As the article highlights above, there seems to be a disconcerting pattern of retired military personnel joining militant outfits post-retirement. It is imperative the military stem this pattern of reverse-indoctrination, where retired soldiers are attacking the very state they had sworn to...

Express Tribune Fearing a bloody blowback, the authorities seem to have given up the idea of launching a military campaign in the tribal region. Negotiating another peace deal also seems to be out of the question because experience has shown that these deals were only used as breathers by...

DAWN SIGNS of panic are evident in Pakistani Taliban ranks following the attack on Malala Yousufzai. They are clearly trying to recover from their biggest defeat on the propaganda front after the attack on the 14-year-old in Swat. The damage was done by the initial claiming and justifying of...

DAWN SIGNS of panic are evident in Pakistani Taliban ranks following the attack on Malala Yousufzai. They are clearly trying to recover from their biggest defeat on the propaganda front after the attack on the 14-year-old in Swat. The damage was done by the initial claiming and justifying...

The Crumbling State Babar Sattar At what point does loss of control over territory rise to a level that it becomes unacceptable for the state? Let us consider a few random events. A while back the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) slaughtered 11 soldiers of Pakistan Army, taped the massacre and...

Ayaz Amir So Malala deserved to die. “We targeted her because she would speak against the Taliban while sitting with shameless strangers and idealised the biggest enemy of Islam, Barack Obama.” Thus the warriors of the faith, trying to justify the unjustifiable. What was the bigger...

Talat Husain The expected military operation in North Waziristan has been put on hold yet again. Ironically, this has happened in part because of the very event that was supposed to spur the nation and the government into taking decisive action against the last bastion of the Tehreek-e-Taliban...

Talat Husain The expected military operation in North Waziristan has been put on hold yet again. Ironically, this has happened in part because of the very event that was supposed to spur the nation and the government into taking decisive action against the last bastion of the Tehreek-e-Taliban...