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Rabid Dogs
May 21st, 2011
by Mahmood Adeel
by Mahmood Adeel
An interesting article in The News makes a compelling case that outsourcing war by using private contractors is a losing strategy. This was most clearly proven in Iraq when the private security company Blackwater did more harm than good to efforts to bring peace to the country. The Blackwater mercenaries were accused of murder by [...]
China, a friend, shouldn’t be our fantasy
May 19th, 2011
by Mahmood Adeel
by Mahmood Adeel
The fanfare over PM’s visit to Beijing comes as little surprise. Frustrated with our most allied ally in the West, there is understandable reason for people to see some hope in the East. But I worry that we are making the same mistake with China that we make with US – expecting a benefactor and [...]
Whose Side Is Hamid Gul On?
May 18th, 2011
by Mahmood Adeel
by Mahmood Adeel
Afghan news agency Tolo News reporter Shakeela Abrahimkhil wrote on Tuesday that Gen (retd) Hamid Gul has asked Mullah Omar to leave Pakistan. The reporter spoke with Afghan security officials who told that the ISI has requested Mullah Omar to leave Pakistan immediately. According to the reporter the message was conveyed by Hamid Gul. But [...]
Time For Course Correction
May 16th, 2011
by Mahmood Adeel
by Mahmood Adeel
In an interesting editorial, The News notes that terrorism lives on after Osama and Pakistan will have to manage the problem. The bombing demonstrates that the killing of the Al-Qaeda chief hasn’t solved anything. Terrorism lives on, and could grow in the country as anger against the US continues to mount. This is a problem [...]
A Voice of Reason?
May 13th, 2011
by Mukhtar Ahmed
by Mukhtar Ahmed
According to Merriam Webster, revenge is defined as “to get even for a wrong done”. This morning when the Charsaddah bombing took place and Pakistan Taliban took responsibility of the suicide attacks, they called it “revenge” for the death of Osama Bin Laden. My question to the readers is: What kind of revenge is this? [...]
Expose The True Hidden Hand
May 12th, 2011
by Mahmood Adeel
by Mahmood Adeel
Nawaz Sharif is right. This Gen Iqbal panel reeks of cover up and there needs to be an independent inquiry into how we got to the point that soldiers from one foreign country crossed the border looking for soldiers from another foreign country. Pakistan has become the world’s playground and all the dharnas in history [...]
Leader of Bayghairat Brigade – Jihadi War Monger Hamid Gul
May 11th, 2011
by Mahmood Adeel
by Mahmood Adeel
The term ‘Ghairat Brigade’ has been used sarcastically to describe those media talking heads that chatter on endlessly about the national honour without actually doing anything to improve the nation itself. ‘Honour’ for them is nothing but a rhetorical weapon used to distract people from real issues. The sarcasm, however, seems to be lost as [...]
Nation Needs Patriots, Not Opportunists
May 9th, 2011
by Mahmood Adeel
by Mahmood Adeel
Political opportunists of every stripe are coming out of the woodwork to take advantage of the nation’s confusion over the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad last week. Meanwhile, the nation’s image is at a low point as the world asks how Osama bin Laden could be living comfortably outside PMA Kakul [...]
Who let Osama in the gate?
May 7th, 2011
by Mahmood Adeel
by Mahmood Adeel
As the days pass and the fog clears, the story of what happened on 1 May is starting to come out and it’s not looking great. The day after a group of American commandos crossed the border and killed Osama bin Laden who was living comfortably in the shadow of Kakul, the usual sources reported [...]