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Pakistan is in a strange situation. On one side, its citizens are seeing their country move rapidly towards abyss, and on the other side, they – despite their opposition – cannot (or will not, at least completely) back the banishment and complete destruction of the Jehadi system. Jehad is not the product of some people, [...]
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Today (23rd March) in 1931, at 7.30 pm three young men were hanged in the Lahore Jail. they were to be hanged on the 24th, but their hanging was moved 11 hours earlier and in an unprecedented decision, hangings were done not in the morning but in the evening. Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev [...]
Read More...What is it about the people of Indian subcontinent, that we still value “Honor” or our value in others’ eyes so much? Why can’t we live our lives in a way that upholds ourselves in just our own eyes? Although, both India and Pakistan have this family honor disease, but it is far more prevalent [...]
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Sri Sri Ravishankar is making his second trip to Pakistan today via the Attari border. Amongst other things, on this 3 day visit, he will also be innaugurating an Art of Living center in Islamabad. It sounds interesting and often difficult as to how an Indian spiritual organization could have such a following in Pakistan, [...]
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The latest Wikileaks expose of emails by Stratfor’s VP for Intelligence Fred Burton shed interesting light on Osama Bin Laden and also Pakistan’s role in it. For one, it seems that Osama’s body was never consigned to the sea, but brought all the way back to the US. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes [...]
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Came across a news item today, where a Pakistani couple – 83 year old Ilyas Ashar and 66 year old wife Tallat Ashar had kept a deaf and mute Pakistani girl, - they had brought all the way from Pakistan, as a slave – when she was 10. She is now supposed to be 19 or [...]
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Osama Bin Laden’s saga will turn out to be one issue that is going to define Pakistan and even its relationship to the world in the coming decades. Why? Because a lot of what is happening and what will happen in the future is because the veil over the actions by the Jehadis and the [...]
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Slowly and gradually and under the very nose of India, Nepal is becoming a vassal state of China. Maoists took over the country and reversed its status as a Hindu State. And now, there is serious talk in that Government of abandoning the special status treaty with India. Because, they want to hedge their bets [...]
Read More...There has been a constant discussion in Pakistan on how it “helps” Afghanistan and how the Afghans aren’t thankful enough. This news item shows how much the Afghans are dependent on the land route from Pakistan to get their basic This act will only increase the tensions and mistrust between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is [...]
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A Taliban commander comes on and after saying he is going to shoot his captives as a revenge for his people having been killed by the Government. Then he shouts “Allah-o-Akbar” (Allah is Great) and shoots 15 military personnel down. The situation wouldn’t be anything strange given the reputation of Taliban but for the details [...]
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