Crisis
Addressing Pakistan’s Sovereignty Deficit
Christine Fair writes a fairly good assessment of the Pakistan-US love-hate relationship at the German Marshall Fund of the United States to say -> The Pakistan government’s inability to provide for the security and prosperity of its own people has led to questions about its sovereignty, whether in terms of its monopoly of violence, fiscal solvency, or [...]
Stuxnet: Cyber Weapon of Mass Destruction
I’m sure over the past year you may have accidentally stumbled across the word Stuxnet, it is technically a simple computer virus that has started infecting Microsoft Windows computers since July 2010, I too heard some reports of the virus, but as usual shrugged it aside as just another scare, little did I worry any [...]
Pakistan ranked as THIRD most Dangerous country in the World for Women
Thomson Reuters Foundation under its Trust Law for Women initiative conducted a global research polling over 200 gender experts across five continents to deduce the five most dangerous countries in the world for women. The study ranked the countries in the following order. Afghanistan Democratic Republic of Congo Pakistan India Somalia While the Highest-ranked countries [...]
Pakistan Rangers impart Justice in 10 seconds
Words fail me, after I watched this video of a Sarfaraz Shah being shot down by our paramilitary law enforcement agency imparting justice in a mere ten seconds. Sarfaraz Shah was apparently brought to the Rangers checkpost positioned inside Benazir Bhutto Park across Boat Basin Karachi accused of holding a family hostage. A heated exchange [...]
Save the Nukes
In the past few days I and perhaps many of you have felt exactly the same as we felt 40 years ago in December 1971, when Gen Niazi surrendered to the Indian Army. Some of you were not even born, so lucky you, but most of this group had to face such a humiliation for [...]
US and NATO imperialism in South Asia: The developing Pakistan Quagmire
After some nationalist and anti-imperialist elements succeeded in defeating the elaborate US and British plans to install two of their puppets- Parvez Musharraf and the late Benazir Bhutto-in the highest government offices in Pakistan, another puppet, Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir’s husband-also known as Mr. Ten Percent, because of his corruption and demanding and taking systematic [...]
Karachi, Navy, Terror, Dharna
Waking up once again to the news of a terrible blast- the third in 48 hours in Karachi, all three on Naval buses! Two things make these blasts distinct from the others that make the daily news in Pakistan: one, the death toll (that is different for every blast of course) and two, this time [...]
The Deal Undone: Pakistan, its Army and the Americans
The deal undone explores the strenuous relationship between the Pakistan – US military establishments. The documentary analyzes a specific period in the history of this relationship during the, following the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. From the heights of friendship during the early years of the war on terror to the falling out with the [...]
Kill Team in Afghanistan documenting the American War Pornography
Two weeks back the world was hit by yet another fresh set of disturbing pictures of war crimes being committed by US soldiers in Afghanistan released by the Rolling Stones Magazine. It shook the world to hear of a “Kill Team” roving wild in Afghanistan in search of prey and then recording these killings as [...]
Pakistan gives CIA license to kill Pakistani – asserts ex-CIA Undercover Operative
Talkhaba interviews Robert Anderson a CIA operative who operated in Vietnam some 60 years back recently he wrote an article on CounterPunch on what the undercover work CIA did back then and the similarities with CIA now in terms of running operative like Raymond Davis working in Pakistan Robert Anderson teaches economics and political science [...]
Deciphering the attacks on Pakistani Nationals in Bahrain
After posting the two write-ups on the blog here & here about the threats on Pakistanis living in Bahrain, its important to share my own analysis over this issue that I have gained over the past two days thanks to a number of friends in Bahrain and around the world. There is a large population [...]
Letter from a Pakistani Journalist in Bahrain appealing for Help
I write this in great distress. As the world knows, there has been a wave of protests in Bahrain that has rocked the entire country. While most of the world, including our brothers in Pakistan and media want to see it as a sequel to the incidents in Tunisia and Egypt, let me assure you [...]
Shocking Attack on a Pakistani in a Hospital in Bahrain
This is an email I received from Bahrain sharing a shocking detail of Human Rights abuses against Pakistanis in these riots. I personally cannot verify the contents but talking to a number of Pakistanis based in Bahrain all attest that such incident did occur and this incident is being widely reported. What is actually happening [...]
Raymond Davis goes free after paying $2.34 Million in Blood Money
As expected the Americans finally had their way, the CIA operative who had shot dead two Pakistanis on the streets of Lahore in January was released by the an additional session judge Yousuf Ojla in Kot Lakpath Jail. He initially found Raymond Davis guilty of the double murder but immediately the lawyers presented the families [...]
March for Education Emergency in Pakistan
The education task force in Pakistan has launched a push to create awareness on the education crisis in Pakistan, a mere look at the highlights of their detailed report would scare the beejeepers out of everyone. A few salient points have been extracted below to better understand the issue, while some graphics were also extracted [...]
