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The writer is right on the money in pointing out the military's shenangians when it came to turning a blind eye to the sectarian monster. Anti-shia outfits like SSP were brought to life during the Zia years and then groups like LeJ were put on steroids during the 90s by the military with...

Express Tribune Pakistan’s slow-motion slide into sectarian hell has, so far, met with studied silence from all the major political players. In the case of the PPP, the silence is mere cowardice. In the case of the PML-N and the PTI, the silence is calculated; a cold-blooded conclusion...

Zahid Hussain IT was nauseating to listen to some TV commentators ranting about a foreign hand behind the Kamra airbase attack. Some even found vindication of their insane conspiracy theories in a report in an American newspaper that claimed the base may be involved in Pakistan’s nuclear...

DAWN THE sudden increase in surveillance across the country to avert possible terrorist attacks has many looking for the reasons behind the increased efforts at this juncture. More vigilance could simply be the outcome of the Kamra airbase attack and the alerts that intelligence agencies have...

Lets wait and see...TTP would not beating its chest and showing bravado without there being a genuine threat of military action.

Express Tribune Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has finally said what the world had been waiting to hear for quite some time now. Speaking at the Azadi Parade at the Pakistan Military Academy over a week ago, he said that militants were a threat to Pakistan and that the army and the...

Ayaz Amir Gen Kayani’s speech at PMA Kakul on August 14 repays a close study. The war against religious extremism was our war, he said. This was the kernel of his remarks. It would have helped if this clarity had come much earlier...but better late than never. Extremism gone wild and...

We don't need Zardari to tell us why this is our war. Kayani pretty much said it in his address at Kakul. As far as Imran Khan is concerned, his understanding of the TTP, militancy or the ideology driving it is that of a 10 year old. THE NEWS Tsunamis are known for the height of their...

Interesting point. What options can the military realistically use as an expedited approach?

Wrong. Just like Zia ul Haq changed the ideological landscape of the country by embarking on his Wahabization project - promoting the ideology and thus creating sectarian/ideological fissures that exist in the country to this day - the reverse trend can be engineered over time, provided our...

You've hit the nail on the head - Ideology! It is this insidious ideology that has created such TTP sympathizers inside the military. Dismantling the TTP in itself is not enough - the military needs to block all sources and organizations(primarily Saudi Salafis and their local sidekicks such as...

Unfortunately, the track record of insider collusion with TTP and its cohorts and reverse indoctrination is pretty strong in the incidents mentioned above. By the military's own admission, most of these attacks would not have been as successful were it not for insider collusion. We already...

ISLAMABAD: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Monday warned the country’s military it had set up a “suicide bombers squad” to hit troops if an offensive is launched in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan. In an email message sent to media, TTP, an umbrella...

Yup thats right - the Amrikis will help - just like they helped send Baitullah Mehsud to hell in a handbasket - long live the drones!

THE NEWS Tsunamis are known for the height of their waves, and Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI)’s tsunami would probably register its tallest wave yet if it hits the mountains of Waziristan next month. Organising a jalsa inside the Taliban stronghold of Waziristan would be no small...

THURSDAY’S attack on the airbase in Kamra shows that terrorist groups in Pakistan have developed a level of resilience that has survived the killing of several high-profile leaders. It is for another day to consider why this attack failed where others have caused considerable material...

DAWN THURSDAY’S attack on the airbase in Kamra shows that terrorist groups in Pakistan have developed a level of resilience that has survived the killing of several high-profile leaders. It is for another day to consider why this attack failed where others have caused considerable...

DAWN ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Commander of US Central Command Gen James Mattis would continue consultations on an operation against the Haqqani network even though the visiting American General had to leave without a firm date. Gen Mattis, who had arrived on Thursday...

The radicalised fringe the DAWN editorial talks about is infact the underlying ideology and worldview promoted by the TTP and its supporters. The doctrine is basically a set of Salafi tenets imported from the Salafi/Wahabi clergy in Saudi - a regressive tribal doctrine masquerading as religion...

The radicalised fringe the DAWN editorial talks about is infact the underlying ideology and worldview promoted by the TTP and its supporters. The doctrine is basically a set of Salafi tenets imported from the Salafi/Wahabi clergy in Saudi - a regressive tribal doctrine masquerading as religion...