Taliban’s Heaven (Taliban ki Jannat)

Taliban’s Jannat

Through courtsey of a friend, we received few pictures which depicts scenes of heaven waiting for the suiside bombers. Our friend informed us that in recent Parade Lane attack, killers picked up little kids from ground and then shot them. This was told by a young kid who servived this ordeal.

Which ideology, what so ever would allow this? Do you believe that such a merciless killer would go in his so called heaven? Just see few more picturesof his ‘Jannat’. Who is doing so and with which agenda? Who is benifitting from this? You guess your self.

No Muslim will ever do that, we are 100 % sure. We believe some body else is getting his revenge in the garb of this situation. See minutely and do notice something written on the wall of the house. If you don’t know the background, ask somebody else or if you want, explain it here for others.

For international audiance, the writing on one of the house means,’Rest house for Pakhtoon Kha (Pakhtoon lovers)”.

Dubai: that sinking feeling

The usual clichés about castles in the sand have been trotted out once more following last week’s request to its creditors by the state-owned conglomerate Dubai World that the repayment of its debts be deferred for six months.

The magnitude of the problem was illustrated by the manner in which stock markets right across the developed world dipped sharply at the prospect of Dubai defaulting on its loans, prompting fears that global capitalism’s current crisis could intensify after several months of gradual recovery.

Given that Dubai has long been run virtually as a corporate entity, comparisons between the Gulf emirate and the now deceased American investment bank Lehman Brothers are not entirely facetious. There was some surprise when the US government decided not to rescue Lehman Brothers after it declared bankruptcy last year. In Dubai’s case, it seems the role of potential saviour falls to Abu Dhabi, the dominant constituent of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the only one to boast substantial oil wealth.

Anne Patterson’s Blackwater-gate

Fasi Zaka

When people would obsess over the supposed clandestine take-over of Pakistan by the security firm formerly known as Blackwater (now Xe), I often wished that they be that animated over the problem of drinking water in our country.

I now feel that my dismissiveness was entirely wrong. It looked like a conspiracy theorist’s dream to me initially, a private army outside the remit of the law doing the bidding of the Americans in Pakistan.

Well, the definitive truth is now out; it is present in Pakistan. It may not be doing some of the more ridiculous assertions attributed to its operations in the country by an opportunistic Taliban, like carrying out suicide bombings, but Blackwater is here. It shouldn’t be.

They are united….Why Not we?

Ruqaia Saireen

It is reported that as many as nine intelligence agencies of the world are involved in anti-Pakistan activities in Afghanistan. And there are reports of nine Indian consulates working along Pakistan border exporting terrorists to Pakistan. After CIA, India’s two intelligence services, the Research &Analysis Wing (RAW) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), are among the most active in Afghanistan. The Indians have a separate, extensive intelligence and espionage setup focused on Pakistan’s tribal Pashtun belt.This is where the Indians and Karzai people are running a joint venture of pumping saboteurs into Pakistan disguised as the so-called Pakistani Taliban.

A workable strategy?

Janus-like and potentially creating more uncertainty in an already difficult region is how we would describe US President Obama’s speech on his new strategy for Afghanistan.The face turned towards the militants and the Afghan government tried to send a stern message: a military surge to ‘seize the initiative’ and ‘reverse the Taliban’s momentum’ is supposed to ‘accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces’ and create space for ‘a more effective civilian strategy’.

Reinventing nation-building

Paul D Scott

Just what are the US and its coalition allies doing in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq? Is it state-building or nation-building? Is it development or reconstruction? Or, is it a little of this and little of that? The two terms are often used almost interchangeably, but they reflect vastly different approaches, disciplines, tactics, goals and strategies.