Pakistani Blogs

There are various sources for the funding of the Taliban. Much has been written about it. Here is a synopsis. 1) Poppy growth keeps the drug lords in power and many of them fund the Taliban and the 38 insurgent groups that are fighting the NATO, ISAF and US forces. 2) There is much discussion, specially in Pakistan of foreign sources for the funding of terror, specially what is being exported ...

General Stanley McChrystal has been all over the media telling the world that he needs about 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan. This is a PR tactic that can be used as a CYA  exercise when things get worse in the graveyard of empires. Then General McChrystal can come back and say, well how could be win the war–we didn’t have enough troops. This has been the usual excuse for Generals who have ...

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Few months back the government of Pakistan and US both got exposed by the media when they released the pictures of US Drones parked in Shamsi airbase in Baluchistan. The controversy became an embarassment for both Musharraf and the present democratic government as no one could deny the reality. The detail article about the US [...]

لیسیاں (جس کو بٹرنگ، مکھن بازی اور ٹی سی جیسے لا زوال لفطوں سے بھی یاد کیا جاتا ہے) جس کی وجہ سے مرد حضرات کا مخلوط تعلیمی نظام میں وہی استحصال ہوتا ہے جسکا ہم علیحدہ تعلیمی نظام میں پپو بچوں کی وجہ سے شکار رہتے تھے لیکن ذاتی تجربہ یہ کہتا ہے کہ مخلوط تعلیمی نظام میں اس کے ڈسے سے بچنا

Gilles Dorronsoro's book Revolution Unending Gilles Dorronsoro has written a book on Afghanistan. He does talk sense. Gilles Dorronsoro is professor of political science, Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). He has written extensively on Afghan and Central Asian politics and is a member of the editorial committees of Cultures and Conflicts and Central Asian Literature.

Its now official, the most feared warlord and Chief of TTP Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a drone...

"Intelligence Reports" are coming out that Tehrik-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud is appa...

Is it time that we go into the context or genealogy of the rise and operation of terrorism in Pakistan and do we need to understand that as is this some sort of religious-political movement which has turned violent and does this movement has any roots in the public or not.