Courtesy: Dawn.com
‘The day is not far when Islamabad will be in the hands of the mujahideen,’ Pakistani Taliban commander Mullah Nazeer Ahmed said.
MINGORA: Pakistani Taliban are moving into a new area in northern Pakistan, clashing with villagers and police in a mountain valley, police and district officials said on Wednesday.
Daily Archives: 09/04/2009
Re-inventing Pakistan
WASHINGTON DIARY: Re-inventing Pakistan
by Dr Manzur Ejaz, USA
April 7th, 2009
Courtesy: Daily Times & Wichaar.com
The writer can be reached at manzurejaz@yahoo.com
The state of Pakistan cannot survive unless the intelligentsia and the masses reconcile to the concept of keeping their belief system to themselves and letting the state be neutral to religion. Unless the masses rally around the new concept of the state, security agencies will never have the moral courage and strength to eradicate extremism.
Girlfriends
A girlfriend knows your deep dark secrets, but likes you anyway. Girlfriends are no farther away than the phone, even if it’s 4 am in the morning. A good girlfriend is hard to find, impossible to replace and never forgotten.
Promote positive ideas
by Munwar Soomro, Washington DC, USA
The writer can be reached at soomro_munwar@yahoo.com
we should try to promote positive ideas and news. Negative ideas truly have made us hate ourselves. One should not go on the other extreme either where every thing looks great, We should talk and promote good things we have and those which we can do. In this regard I would say that when even our leaders are not helping us, there is great opportunity for us to rise and prove that we are capable and that we don’t depend on the feudals.
Fanatics make terror threats in Sindh to ban music, dance
JUI-F clerics ban festival dancers in Sindh
Local journalists say group apparently uses rising threat of terrorism to get local judiciary, police to implement its agenda
Courtesy and Thanks:Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Clerics of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam- Fazl (JUI-F) have forced women dancers participating in a traditional spring festival in Shahdadkot district in Sindh to leave the event, officials say.
Top Baloch Leader killed along with two others
Top Baloch leader along with two colleagues found dead in Turbate, Balochistan
A leading Baloch leader who was also active getting UNHCR Quetta head John Solecki released from BLUF was picked up from his lawyer’s office few days back and last night was found dead in Turbat, Balochistan.
Pakistani TV channels are reporting that province-wise angry and violent protests have started against killing three Baloch leaders. At some places office of ruling PPP have been burnt today.
Bear Baiting
The Ex-Servicemen have always represented the best of traditions of the Armed Forces. They have a proud record of sacrifice in stout defence of the country’s national interest. This image has been tarnished by four military dictators and their henchmen comprising coteries of high military officers, a segment of the judiciary and many politicians. General Ayub Khan set the pattern, which was followed by his military successors. The legacy of dictatorial rule has impacted every facet of the society and destroyed the integrity of the institutions of the state. Widespread corruption, rigging of elections, unmerited promotions and a culture of elitism widened splits in the country. The seeds of the separation of East Pakistan were all sown in his period of rule.
General Yahya remained too drunk to apply his mind and faculties to the affairs of the country. He had a small group of incompetent, inexperienced and inept people around him, who were taking all the decisions. They had no foresight or vision and just kept blundering their way through. They took this country towards a war, the conspiracy for which was hatched and planned by India and Sheikh Mujib, years in advance. Given the situation and the circumstances that prevailed, the Armed Forces of Pakistan, or for that matter any other country, could not have fought and won that war. It was forced on Pakistan by India who chose the time as well as theatre of operations (East Pakistan) after a long drawn campaign of subversion. The inevitable result was an ignoble defeat and the separation of East Pakistan.
