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Articles with tag: waziristan

Can We Fight Ideas With Guns?

Shahzada Sultan   Nov 4, 2009   interacts: 3

Amid all this mayhem and unstoppable tragic loss of valuable lives, have we for a moment stopped and asked ourselves: “can we fight ideas with guns only?”

Peace The Final Frontier

Taji M   Nov 2, 2009   interacts: 5

The operation in Waziristan is a very temporary solution, and its only aim should be to halt immediate attacks, but ultimately the peace has to be negotiated, whether we like to talk to Talibans or not.

Vision21: Waziristan Strategy or Pakistan Strategy?

Azhar Aslam   Oct 30, 2009   interacts: 66

Pakistan and Waziristan were not always like this. How we have come to this pass is crucial to analyse, but even more urgent is to assess that are we prepared enough to win this battle?

Waziristan Operation

Agha Amin   Oct 17, 2009   interacts: 331

If military operation could pacify any country there would have been no Vietnam or Afghanistan or even 50 plus expeditions into Waziristan since 1890s till to date.

GHQ Attack-Serious Questions

Agha Amin   Oct 13, 2009   interacts: 274

The enemy is not in Waziristan or Afghanistan. The enemy is our own damn inefficiency and complacency. It merits serious thinking at all plains , tactical,operational and strategic.

Waziristan Operation is a Faux Pas

Agha Amin   Jun 16, 2009   interacts: 170

Nothing in history is inevitable. If Pakistan is to be preserved the Punjabis and Pashtuns have to be friends. Its time that mistakes of the criminally opportunistic Musharraf are not repeated.

Jammin' at the Jive

Shaheryar Mirza   Jan 26, 2009   interacts: 24

A cruise for every scud
Doom for every dud
It’s all about staying alive
Beats your normal 9-5
Jammin’ at the jive.

US Commando Strike in Waziristan

Agha Amin   Sep 3, 2008   interacts: 197

They have decided that the centre of gravity of all the trouble is Pakistan. Right or wrong this appears to be the central US perception now.

Whither Enlightened Moderation

saeed qureshi   May 17, 2008   interacts: 13

The latest patch up between the NWFP provincial government and Taliban of Swat and South Waziristan buries the much touted President Musharraf’s theme of enlightened moderation

Voice from Waziristan

Khalid Bhatti   Oct 28, 2007   interacts: 69

Today on 28th October, 2007 I woke up to the horror stories of killing and beheading of thirteen people in Swat, Pakistan.

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