What a Fall for Pakistan

by Nadeem F. Paracha  Over the years many from within and outside Pakistan have been emailing me complaining that whenever they tried to look for pictures of Pakistan on the internet that have little or nothing to do with vicious looking mullahs, suicide bo mb ings and mutilated bodies, they have failed. I’ve been scouting [...]

Pakistan Helpless at the Hand of the Taliban Kidnappers

by Declan Walsh/ NYT A campaign of high-profile kidnappings has provided the Pakistani Taliban and its allies with new resources, arming insurgents with millions of dollars, threatening foreign aid programs and galvanizing a sophisticated network of jihadi and criminal gangs whose reach spans the country. Wealthy industrialists, academics, Western aid workers and relatives of military [...]

Pakistan Cannot Progress with Siphae Sahaba Given a Free Hand

Sipahe Sahab Pakistan(SSP, currently camouflaged as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ASWJ) is a banned extremist organization. Comprising radicalised Jihadi-sectarian assets of Pakistan army, the SSP-SWJ represents a tiny minority of the Deobandi sub-sect of Sunni Islam, and per se does not represent the majority of Sunni Barelvi, Deobandi or Salafi Muslims. Sunni Muslims inPakistanare divided [...]

ISI’s Secret Pakistan: BBC2 Documentary

ISI provides weapons and training to the Taliban fighting US and British troops in Afghanistan, despite official denials, a BBC documentary quotes some people it claims to be Taliban commanders as alleging. A number of middle-ranking Taliban commanders, it said, revealed the extent of Pakistani support in interviews for the BBC Two documentary series, `Secret [...]

What Can Happen if We Give Talibans a Free Hand

There are numerous Pakistanis who are convinced that the Taliban rule inAfghanistanwas the best that the country had ever seen. They say that there was peace inAfghanistanand people could travel wherever they wanted to inside it, that there was no theft, no rape, no looting and generally law and order was good. There is, however, [...]

North Waziristan & the Haqqani Network

Located between the Khost province of eastern Afghanistan and KP of northwest Pakistan, North Waziristanis the second largest tribal region of FATA. According to security experts, the area is considered today to be the epicentre not only of violence inAfghanistanandPakistanbut also a major source of International terrorism. Along with its geographic isolation, difficult terrain and [...]

Is Kharotabad in Quetta a Taliban Base?

Kharotabad: A Taliban safe haven By Qaiser Butt October 17, 2011 People in Kharotabad are living in constant fear of possible drone attacks in their neighbourhood, considering that over the past six months, the Afghan and local Taliban seemed to covet this part of Quetta as a veritable ‘vacation spot’. Every four months, Taliban fighters [...]

Malik Ishaq Kills Shias & He is Given Protection by the Punjab Government

A mass killer has been provided protection while the families of his victims continue to suffer threats Malik Ishaq, well known as a killer in many incidents of sectarian violence and bomb blasts has been taken by the state after killing over 100 victims. He is currently being held under house arrest for a period [...]

Poverty Does Not Breed Extremism in Pakistan

Spending millions of pounds on development inPakistanwill do nothing to keep young men out of the clutches of the Taliban, according to an extensive survey of Pakistani attitudes towards extremism which will deepen the row over Britain’s aid budget. Studies suggest poorer Pakistanis were actually less likely to support extremist groups. The study, conducted by [...]

ANP’s Afrasiab Khattak Opens His Heart to the Americans & CIA

In a meeting with an American diplomat in July 2009, ANP leader Senator Afrasiab Khattak, with all his children studying in India, claimed that the Haqqani network, a militant group the US holds responsible for multiple attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan, was being protected by the Pakistan military. The report is one of a [...]