Articles with tag: Afghanistan
A Guantanamo Diary
Beej K Singh Jan 2, 2009 interacts: 5The question that comes through strongest in reading M.R. Khan’s book “My Guantanamo Diary” is – how can a system supposedly full of safeguards go so wrong so quickly for so long?!
Introspection – Pakistan and Terrorism
Khalid Bhatti Dec 18, 2008 interacts: 56Isn’t dispensing power to non state actors a crime against the state itself, and those who committed it should be brought before the court on the charges of high treason.
Seeking a way out of the 'war on terror'
Beena Sarwar Oct 18, 2008 interacts: 17The calls by decision makers for political engagement rather than military means to end the ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan reflects a major change in US policy.
Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak: A Man for All Seasons
Zeejah Oct 11, 2008 interacts: 79His greatest disappointment he says is that he was withdrawn as Ambassador before he could bring about the confederation between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Three Cups of Tea & Pennies for Peace
Ras Siddiqui Oct 9, 2008 interacts: 26In 2000 only about 800,000 children went to school in Afghanistan. Today said Mortenson, 6.4 million kids are in school in that country out of which 2 million are girls.
A Weak Pakistan is a Threat to Neighbours
Beena Sarwar Oct 1, 2008 interacts: 38Thanks to past policies, Pakistanis are caught between a rock and a hard place - American military attacks on the border and suicide bombings and sectarian violence around the country...
Aafia Siddiqui to Appear in Court
Ali Hasan Cemendtaur Aug 5, 2008 interacts: 231Disappeared in Pakistan, hysterical screams heard in Afghanistan, and now appearing in a New York court
Mahboba Andyar: A Poem
Mutaal Mooquin Jul 12, 2008 interacts: 58Andyar, an Olympic aspirant is gone missing;
Sole Afghan woman sprinter slated for Beijing.
Andyar, A rising spirit, a brave soul,
Pride of a nation, an archetypal role.
America's Opportunity in Pakistan's Tribal Belt
ziad haider Jul 28, 2008 interacts: 98a key question on Islamabad ’s mind is the fate of stalled legislation creating reconstruction opportunity zones (ROZs) to spur development and combat militancy in FATA.
Fields Of Joy
Umer Murtaza Jul 16, 2008 interacts: 7Two lost Kandaharis, Opiumzai and Hashishuddin, were wandering aimlessly when they chanced upon something very special...
A Fatal Act-Bad News for India Pakistan Relations
Agha Amin Jul 9, 2008 interacts: 112The assassination of Indian Defence Attache in Kabul on 7th July 2008 is a watershed in the ongoing undeclared low intensity war in Afghanistan.
Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jul 1, 2008 interacts: 102The Taliban are waging an armed struggle to remake society. They will keep fighting this war even if America were to miraculously evaporate into space.
Attack in Mohmand
Agha Amin Jun 10, 2008 interacts: 209The recent attack on Frontier Corps (FC) post in Mohmand Agency is the first major US step in arm twisting the hopeless new Pakistani democratic set up.
30 Days in Afghanistan - Dinner Conversations
Naeem Randhawa Apr 28, 2008 interacts: 101I'm in Kabul, Afghanistan. Actually, I'm in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - and across and beside me, people are beginning to get drunk. Muslims are getting drunk.
New US Strategy Needed in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Agha Amin Mar 10, 2008 interacts: 711The main thrust of USA's policy was to construct roads and schools and clinics. These were important but no substantial stakeholders or major employment opportunities were created...
Afghanistan - A Strategic Analysis
Agha Amin Jan 23, 2008 interacts: 538Afghanistan remains haunted and plagued by its violent history and its neighbours continue to enjoy the fruits of war and crisis in Afghanistan.
Charlie Wilson's War Stretches the Imagination
Ras Siddiqui Jan 13, 2008 interacts: 44How does a US Congressman learn about helping the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Empire in 1980? By listening to Dan Rather on TV while soaking in a Jacuzzi full of young women.
Movie Review: The Kite Runner
Ras Siddiqui Jan 2, 2008 interacts: 28Khalid Hosseini, like many Afghan’s is a poet at heart. Here with the assistance of screenwriter David Benioff, the essence of The Kite Runner remains intact
The Real Issue Facing Pakistan
H P Dec 23, 2007 interacts: 212A cursory look at the main characters in the tribal insurgency would show their strong links with the army in the past.
Comments on Ongoing Debate about ISI in the Afghan War
Agha Amin Dec 7, 2007 interacts: 69The Afghan War started a grand party for Pakistan's ruling elite and even Pakistan. Afghan refugees were cleverly and criminally used to solicit US and Saudi aid. All glorified as Jihad.
The Durrani Family Saga
Muhammad Tariq Oct 19, 2007 interacts: 1The poor in Pakistan must be given an alternate to the clergy to take them out from the spiral of ignobility in which they are caught.
Afghanistan: The Continuing Challenge?
Moeed Pirzada Aug 29, 2007 interacts: 12Gen. Musharaf and Ms. Bhutto, both equally willing and falling over each other to oblige Washington in the pursuit of its war against terrorism.
30 Days in Afghanistan - Climbing Qassaba
Naeem Randhawa Jun 26, 2007 interacts: 1On the way up, we pass kids herding goats along narrow passes. I’m in unfamiliar territory, and enjoying the mind body journey, they are at home, easily walking and climbing ahead of me.
30 Days in Afghanistan - Arrival
Naeem Randhawa Jun 24, 2007 interacts: 7I open my window blinds, and look up at the blue sky, it’s the same sky I’d stare at in Dallas, except for the barbed wire on my horizon, and the Afghani guards 30 feet from me.
Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: The Choice Between Alliance and Acrimony
Javaid Zeerak Dec 27, 2006 interacts: 230To turn around the setbacks of spring and summer of 2006 for both Afghanistan and Pakistan, and by extension for the US interests in the region, the roots of mutual suspicion need to be addressed and a new chapter in Afghanistan-Pakistan relationships ope
Pakistan's Afghan Policy
Aparna Pande Oct 24, 2006 interacts: 492Afghanistan was created as a buffer state between the British and Russian empires. The international boundary line between Afghanistan and the British empire, inherited in 1947 by Pakistan, is the Durand line. This line divided ethnic Pashtun tribes into
What Osama gave Muslims
M A Shah Sep 11, 2006 interacts: 44Osama wanted to create an All Arab group of his own. And today, he has Al Qaida. A destructive group causing disruption in world peace in the name of Allah.
False Hopes - A war with no end?
Fiza Asar Aug 3, 2006 interacts: 8It is probably wise for foreign governments to stop meddling in Afghanistan. But if they do, it would be best to foster economic growth and nation building. Broken promises and false hopes will only increase resentment and bitterness and lead to more dome
Afghan Parliamentary Elections
Aarya Nijat Sep 22, 2005 interacts: 5The new parliament will not be some thing more than a caricature of democracy.It is going to be mostly populated by the warlords; however it still is a Step Forward!
I survived. However…
Aarya Nijat Sep 10, 2005 interacts: 152We shared a history, we do share our present. We will be sharing a future. What sort of a future, this is for “US” to decide.
Pakistan-Afghan Relations in Murky Waters
S F Hasnat Aug 3, 2005 interacts: 30Because of intense past interference in the Afghan factional conflict, Pakistan has conceded most of its neutral ground and is branded as an active partner in the existing militancy.
The Book is also Just a Book
Farzana Versey May 23, 2005 interacts: 349Forget about killing myself. I felt no anger, no hurt, no disgust when I read the Newsweek report regarding the ’desecration’ of the ’holy Quran’. The Quran is at various levels merely a symbol, and an individual one at that.
Mr. Ahmed
Dhruva Bandopadhyay Apr 21, 2005 interacts: 178With his grave manner and impeccable dress, one could imagine him to be, oh, a partner in a law firm, or maybe a funeral director. But he was a salesman, and a good salesman at that...
At the Inauguration of Hard Rock Caf: Kabul
Nadeem F Paracha Mar 14, 2005 interacts: 38Welcome gentlemen & gentlemen and a few cows and goats of the terrible Taliban era, who after five horrible years of torture and repression have now been turned into what they were before they were turned into tortured cows & goats and that is, WO
Afghanistan: Power Plays
abdul naeem Oct 5, 2004 interacts: 5In the culmination of a hectic week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an apparent assassination attempt while on an official visit south of Kabul. With Afghanistan’s presidential election less than a month away, the situation is looking more ch
To Die For.....the War at Wana
farheen zehra Mar 21, 2004 interacts: 159Images flashed on the television screen; a burning truck, scattered FC troops behind mud barricades and coffins wrapped in the national flag. This was the footage of the war taking place in Wana - where our soldiers are engaged in a bloody combat with the
Shehnai Wails
Temporal Mar 19, 2004 interacts: 13like in-laws they fight
over the usual suspects
how the times have changed
wails the shehnai
The Spring Initiative
Ali Hasan Cemendtaur Mar 11, 2004 interacts: 33A clandestine military operation to raid various areas of Pakistan’s lawless Waziristan Agency, bordering Afghanistan. It is an attempt to snare Osama Bin Laden who is said to be now communicating via hand-written notes from his hideout.
Prisoner of Landi Kotal*
Temporal Nov 11, 2003 interacts: 16The living are doomed to be incarcerated in prisons of their own making. Only the fool or the foolhardy break out of it.
Osama Biradari
ciret fatima Oct 2, 2003 interacts: 8He was hardly 6 or 7 and knew international politics from alpha to omega. US backed and non-US (Osama biradari, as he called it) are the two groups our world is divided into!
A Strange Tango
Asif Memon Aug 8, 2003 interacts: 24It’s easy for Pakistanis to blame everything on the United States (the west in general). The truth is that’s why they do it. Surely our economic and social woes have more to do with our own inability to right our ship, no matter how evil the A
