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Author: temporal

  • Torture, Cover-up and the American Civil Liberties Union – A Desi Connection

    Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh may not mean anything to most readers. Jameel Jaffer is a London, Ont. born litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union and Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. Amrit Singh is Manmohan Singh’s daughter and is a Staff Attorney at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. credit Ruby Washingon, NYT…

  • Jaswant, Jinnah Jam

    On Aug 14, commenting on Nehru, Patel 'conceded' Pakistan to Jinnah: Jaswant Singh I quoted from the article: Mohammed Ali Jinnah did not win Pakistan as Congress leaders Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel "conceded" Pakistan to the Quaid-e-Azam with the British acting as an ever helpful midwife, says senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh. According…

  • US-Pakistan-Afghanistan Summit: To Disrupt, Dismantle, and Defeat Al-Qaeda

    Whoever has a better idea would win the battle.

  • The Taliban’s Atomic Threat: John Bolton’s Fear Mongering

    Afghanistan is not a nuclear power. Yet the alleged conspirators of 9/11 emerged from there.

  • Two Washingtonians On Pakistan

    Pakistan. ‘s neo-conzix point man Husain Haqqani in Washington wrote in WSJ: Now that the Taliban have been driven out of Buner, and Pakistani forces have militarily engaged them just outside their Swat Valley stronghold, it should be clear to all that Pakistan can and will defeat the Taliban. Leap of logic by a person…

  • The Genius Figures it Out: It is Da Bomb

    Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence chief “As long as the armed forces are intact, the state is not going to be at risk,” he told The Washington Times. The Saudi Prince genius has figured it all out – by himself! So now that it is out, no harm in sharing the insight with…

  • Stop Twittering – Fight or Succumb

    Guest blog by temporal who blogs at Baithak Blog Earlier I had posted Who killed the Baloch leaders? by Qurat ul ain Siddiqui. More on this saga here. This should raise alarms. Will it? This is extra-judicial killings – by state organs. The last time it happened under Benazir and Sharif Governments, the agencies got…

  • Whose God is Great? Another Carnage in Lahore

    Guest Blog by temporal from Baithak Blog Finally, at about 4 p.m., police and army commandos stormed the compound. Soon after that, a group of surviving attackers surrendered on the rooftop of the main building. Dozens of police celebrated their triumph by firing into the air and shouting, "God is great." [link] The ides of…

  • The Lament of the Blind and the Deaf

    Guest post by Temporal from Baithak Blog The usually well informed and articulate Anjum Niaz in this column is way off base The one cardinal mistake she, and most of us make, is putting all our eggs in one basket. The controversial Chaudhry Iftikhar is not a panacea for all that ails us Pakistan does…

  • Rafia Zakaria: Swat, Somalia and Sharia

    Guest post by temporal from Baithak Blog Speaking of the former rickshaw and truck driver’s reincarnation as PakTaliban Rafia Zakaria writes in today’s News: The hijacking and effective recasting of sharia as a populist tool meant to convert the poor into accepting violence and barbarity as emblematic of Islamic justice is a tragedy. Viewing it…

  • Rudderless Invasions: Wasted Lives and Opportunities

    Guest Post by Temporal who blogs at Baithak Israel has agreed to another unilateral ceasefire – like Sharon did in Lebanon – to be broken at will some time in the future. The costs are well known: Over 1200 dead Palestinians a majority of them civilians. Billions of dollars worth of infrastructure destroyed US arms…

  • Poem For Barack, Michelle, Sasha, and Melia Obama

    barak and michelle m and i share your concern for the privacy and well being of sasha and melia may your children get good education and medical care and grow up balanced individuals ready to take their place in the affairs of our world unlike the children in gaza let me add briefly am disappointed…

  • Israel & Palestine: Force Is Never the Solution

    Guest Blog by temporal from Baithak Blog Taking advantage of the lame duck Presidency of Bush, the deliberate distancing of President Elect there-is-only-one-president Obama, the holidays in the West and the attending low emphasis of politicians, Israeli Air Force launched a devastating attack on Gaza. Israel is the non NPT signatory Occupier in the Gaza…

  • A Blessing in Disguise

    Guest Post by Temporal from Baithak Blog The UN Security Council Committee condemning LeT and its parent JD should be a blessing in disguise for the political leadership of Pakistan. They could use this powerful international nudge to clamp down on the ISI and the terrorist breeding factories masquerading as madaris and religious charitable organizations.…

  • Come Tuesday a Victory of Hope Over Rovesque Fear

    Will the US be ever the same again? Since life is all about flux, we continuously change, therefore any questions of change can be rhetorical in nature. Yes, caution is advised and one must never underestimate the shenanigans of the neconzix, but the looming victory of Barack Hussein Obama (according to these pundits and this…