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Our Traitors, their Heroes!

"To attain their objectives, Americans are ruthlessly arrogant; then to support their arrogance, they build a media hype in a manner that their lies begin to appear as truth."  By Brig  (Retd)  Farooq Hameed Khan The Americans have finally shown their Balochistan card.   They definitely crossed the red line in relations with Pakistan. By openly talking about an independent Balochistan on pretext of so called human rights violations, the US Congress Sub Committee under   Republican Congressman   Dana Rohrabacher  has violated international norms and principles of non interference and respect for sovereignty and integrity of other independent states. US Ambassador  Cameron Munter’s  declaration last year  that ‘Balochistan was very significant for the United States’ exposed the  failing superpower’s grand designs in the context of their ‘Great Game’ in Pakistan’s biggest but sparsely populated and perhaps most mineral rich province. While the US State Dep

Mossad practicing its motto in bomb plots

"By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War" By Wayne Madsen The motto of Mossad has long been based on practicing the art of deception to engage in covert and overt warfare. Mossad's motto "By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War" (Hebrew:  be-tahb?l?t ta`aseh lekh? milkham?h ) is being carried out in supposed Iranian-engineered bomb plots against Israeli diplomats in New Delhi, India; Tbilisi, Georgia; and Bangkok, Thailand. The Israeli ambassador to Thailand, Itzhak Shoham, is alleging that the latest bomb plot in Bangkok, in which two men said to be carrying Iranian passports were caught trying to carry out a bomb plot against Israeli diplomatic targets, were similar to two other operations in Tbilisi and New Delhi. The Tbilisi and New Delhi operations saw amateurish homemade magnetic "sticky bombs," similar to those that Israel and the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) have used to carry out car bomb assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists in Ira

Syrian Revolution: Everyone’s Ball Game

The world is wary of the likes of John McCain and his trigger happy reactions to anything and everything that flits its wings. We watched and waited apprehensively for a year till Syria, one of the last chess pieces on the board, to become the new Libya; for the west to sanctimoniously step in with/without UN mandate as champions of democracy and its ideals. The great elephant in the room being of course UN’s inability to enforce anything without the blessing of the Big Five in the Security Council, donning imperialism with a whole new garb. So while any hopes of a UN sponsored intervention were dashed at the Security Council on 4 th  February following the double veto by China and Russia on invoking Article 6 for ‘pacific settlements of disputes’ several questions now surface in the face of protracted civil war and escalating violence, covert operations and furtive intervention coming to the fore; and a not-so subtle attempt to shift geopolitical dynamics from one tutelary to th

Pakistan: Nation with Stolen Future

Mohenjodaro civilization, the cradle of Pakistan  Searches “Mohenjadaro” for Future-making By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.  “Many and sharp the num'rous ills Inwoven with our frame! More pointed still we make ourselves Regret, remorse, and shame! And Man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn, -Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!” (Robert Burns,  From Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge , 1785) Over the past three years, the PPP dominated Zardari government in collaboration with the Army Generals were engaged in deceit of corrupted normalcy – extreme rhetoric, irrational thinking and belligerent outcomes and completely divorced from the prevalent strategic-economic-political realities on the ground requiring URGENT RETHINKING and new policies and new directions to disconnect with the treacherous present. The policy and practices of self-generated fantasy did nothing good to serve the interests of the common people except to embrace

Pakistan: Frenzy Of Adiala Eleven

By  Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal The narrative and counter narrative about Ex-Adiala eleven is turning rather mysterious. They certainly were not the members of a squad that had won some  sports world cup for Pakistan They were hardened terrorists playing ‘catch me if you can’ with our judicial system.’ They were involved in high profile terrorist act like attacks on General Headquarters (GHQ), Hamza Camp, Minhas air base etc. They were undergoing a court martial under the Army Act on the charges of attacking the military establishments. Bringing even ordinary criminals to justice is an uphill task in our country; systems and structures are inclined to support the criminal. Under these circumstances, convicting and sentencing an indicted terrorist is an almost impossible task. Contributory reasons are many; some of these are lack of appropriately equipped forensic laboratories, unsatisfactory protection for prosecution witnesses and judges and the prevalent corrupt culture

Pitfalls in switching NATO supplies on NDN routes

Fuel shortage is hurting US and NATO operations  "By attacking Salala, America has shot herself in the foot, the American arrogance has brought her to this point of no return. One day, she will again have to eat a humble pie the way she has eaten by opening up dialogue with Taliban, the US President will offer apologies to the people of Pakistan." Raja Mujtaba By S. M. Hali Following the NATO led attacks on Pakistani military check post at Salala well within Pakistani territory, which resulted in the slaughter of 24 Pakistani military personnel forced the government of Pakistan to stop the NATO supply routes transiting through Pakistan to Afghanistan. Instead of rendering an unconditional apology to Pakistan, NATO chose to let US CENTCOM conduct an inquiry to apportion blame for the coldblooded murder of Pakistani military personnel. The CENTCOM inquiry under the supervision of Brigadier General Stephen Clark, who in fact was responsible for ordering the attack fa