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Kamran Shafi On October 9, 2012, little Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck by a brave and, according to Imran Khan, an ‘ideological’ member of the great TTP, as she travelled home from school in a Suzuki van. Two masked men (which leads one to ask immediately why they...

NWA has become a haven for TTP and its Al Qaeda affiliates including militant thugs from all over the world. Militants who are ideologically driven and intent on setting up their own fascist fiefdom. We have already seen the TTP operate in Swat. There were no drones in Swat. Have we not learnt...

NWA has become a haven for TTP and its Al Qaeda affiliates including militant thugs from all over the world. Militants who are ideologically driven and intent on setting up their own fascist fiefdom. We have already seen the TTP operate in Swat. There were no drones in Swat. Have we not learnt...

As the Dawn editorial indicated, NWA has become a haven for TTP and its Al Qaeda affiliates including ****** thugs from all over the world. Militants who are ideologically driven and intent on setting up their own fascist fiefdom. We have already seen the TTP operate in Swat. There were no...

DAWN THE will-they, won’t-they pendulum on North Waziristan seemed to momentarily slip towards the possibility of a military operation but it appears, in fact, to resolutely be stuck on, no, there will be no significant military operation in North Waziristan any time soon. The army claims the...

Express Tribune Following the attack on Malala Yousufzai, Pakistan seemed to develop a popular view that time has now come to grasp the nettle of the Taliban in their stronghold of North Waziristan. The nation swung around to the US-led international consensus that Pakistan should attack the...

Imran Khan is a coward and a hypocrite. The 14 year old fighting for her life has more clarity and courage than 10 Imran Khans put together. One would think it would be easy for him to condemn' these terrorists or 'outlaws' as you put it. But no, he wants to negotiate with these stone age thugs...

DAWN ISLAMABAD: Soon after the unconscious teenage activist, Malala Yousufzai, flew out of the country for treatment in the United Kingdom, all the hype about long anticipated North Waziristan operation surreptitiously began to dissipate. Expediencies, both on civilian and military side...

Feisal Naqvi Two days after Malala Yousufzai was attacked by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Imran Khan went to the hospital in which she was being treated to show his concern regarding her condition. And yet, when asked a day earlier why he didn’t directly condemn the TTP, Mr Khan had...

Tariq Rahman Malala, the innocent girl who struggled for continuing her education when her native Swat was ruled by Maulana Fazlullah’s faction of the Taliban, lies between life and death. However, after a long time, there is some sign of life among the country’s opinion-makers — and not just...

TTP is primarily based in NWA with smaller footprints in the rest of the tribal areas, so it is the right place for the operation. We should also work with the US to find and kill Fazlullah in Kunar across the border. The fact that the HN allows TTP to operate from NWA does'nt bode well for...

DAWN Editorial STRONG words from the army at a time of intense emotions over the attack on 14-year-old Malala are an important addition to the national revulsion at the Taliban and the way of life they seek to impose on Pakistan. Important as it is to have clarity in the national discourse...

Irfan Husain AS young Malala Yousufzai struggles for her life, spare a thought for Imran Khan whose recent high profile motorcade to Tank has been completely overshadowed by the cowardly attack on the 14-year old girl. But apart from losing all the publicity the PTI leader was hoping to...

Babar Sattar It often takes an egregious event for us to be shaken out of our slumber and see things clearly for what they are. Salmaan Taseer spoke up against the abuse of the blasphemy law and our religious bigots branded him a heretic and even celebrated his murderer. It took the...

If I was to draw up a list of TTP sympathizers and supporters(not including militants themselves) it would read as follows: 1. Hameed Gul (and several of his retired cronies) 2. Various members of the Ex-Servicemen Association 3. Jamaat Islami and its affiliates 4. JUI - Samiul Haq 5. Sipaha...

Fatman, I find the last sentence of the article intriguing. How do you read it? Is this guy working for the bad guys and got picked up by the military or is he one of the good guys? Why would TTP kidnap a retired officer?

Islam is a great religion. The TTP has nothing to do with our faith. What Kayani is referring to is the evil fascist ideology of the TTP that was imported from the Saudi Salafis.

Express Tribune Muhammad Ali Ehsan (The writer is a retired military officer.) Unfortunately for the state, this change of heart on the part of our military and the intelligence set-up only encourages the militants to indulge in this type of religious vigilantism that we witnessed in the...

Great to hear Gen Kayani finally call a spade a spade! Sounds like the Army has woken up fully and smelling the coffee. That said, actions speak louder than words. Its time for the military to really go after the TTP thugs with a wrecking ball. Imran Khan and other simpletons can whine about...

DAWN WITH the rise of militancy in the country over the last decade, no branch of the armed forces has been spared from militant attacks. The navy’s Mehran base in Karachi was stormed last year, while militants attacked GHQ in Rawalpindi in 2009. Most recently, Pakistan Air Force’s complex at...