Thursday, August 04, 2011
Asad Munir
The US administration has decided to suspend $800 million military aid to Pakistan. This is the latest step, in a series, taken by the US administration and their media to pressurise Pakistan, since the death of Osama. The US forces ...

Friday, July 08, 2011
Asad Munir
The Osama bin Laden incident has greatly tarnished the image of Pakistan as a reliable ally in the war on terror. Some US lawmakers are furious at Pakistan because they say it hosted Bin Laden in Abbottabad for several years. They ...

Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Asad Munir
In an interview in 1998 Mr Brzezinski, the then national security advisor to president Carter, stated: “It was July 3, 1979 that president Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in ...

Saturday, June 11, 2011
Asad Munir
In a unanimous resolution on May 14, the joint session of parliament called for an immediate halt to US drone attacks, failing which Pakistan would be “constrained” to consider necessary countermeasures, including withdrawal of ...

Thursday, June 09, 2011
Asad Munir
Al-Qaeda and their local allies announced that they would seek revenge for Osama’s death and they have succeeded so far in implementing their plans. They have struck targets of their choice all over Pakistan, including defence and ...

Saturday, February 27, 2010
Asad Munir
Two important Taliban leaders were detained in Pakistan in the past one month. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Mullah Abdul Salam, the first in Karachi and the other in Faisalabad. The arrests coincided with the launching of a major ...

Monday, July 20, 2009
Asad Munir
The armed forces are all set to start an operation in South Waziristan, the stronghold of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other foreign militants. In 2002, the agency served as the headquarters of Al Qaeda with Hadi Al Iraqi as the ...

Sunday, July 19, 2009
Asad Munir
The armed forces are all set to start an operation in South Waziristan, the stronghold of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other foreign militants. In 2002, the agency served as the headquarters of Al Qaeda with Hadi Al Iraqi as the ...

Saturday, June 13, 2009
Asad Munir
Orakzai is the only tribal agency which does not border on Afghanistan. Before 1973, when it received the status of a tribal agency, it was under the administrative control of the deputy commissioner of Kohat as a Frontier Region. ...

Thursday, June 11, 2009
Asad Munir
The Wazirs are a more warlike Pakhtoon tribe than the Durranis, Lodhis, Suris and Ghalzais who ruled the subcontinent. They inhabit South and North Waziristan in Pakistan and Birmal, Matun districts in Afghanistan. Wazirs preferred a ...