Over the past few months an ongoing debate about opening the borders to our next door neighbor has engulfed drawing room discussions,economics and politics lectures,the industrialist,the Mazdoor (wage laborer),and of course the talk shows. Those in favor of this upgrade in India’s status have brought to notice a need for better . . . →Read More:Lip Service to Goodwill
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 Leave a comment  Vent it Out!  1971 partition,Aman ki Aasha,anti-Zia rhetoric,Bhutto,CIA,conflict,Green revolution,industrialist,Lip Service to Goodwill,literary festival,Mazdoor,Operation Endgame,Pakistan Army,sectarian and religious strife,TAPI,terrorism,unstable governance,wage laborer,war against the Soviets,World’s largest and most multicultural democracy Shakil Afridi once again makes headlines with even more controversial statements. The doctor who headed a fake polio vaccination program was responsible for disclosing the hiding location of OBL to the US forces. The entire incident was a great source of embarrassment for the Pakistani government and especially the army. Rumors about ISI’s involvement with . . . →Read More:Afridi:whistleblower or traitor? Leave a comment Vent it Out! 9/11,Afridi:whistleblower or traitor?,AQIP senior leader,CIA,controversial statements,fake polio vaccination program,Haqqani network,Haqqanis,hiding location of OBL to the US forces,ISI,OBL,OBL operation,Pakistan Army,Pakistan Shakil Afridi,Pakistani government,Shakil Afridi,War on terror First of the 10 strategies for media manipulation,presented by Noam Chomsky,is the strategy of distraction. The primary element of social control is the strategy of distraction which is to divert public attention from important issues and changes determined by the political and economic elites,by the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and . . . →Read More:Media’s hand in creating wrong ideas about intelligence agencies Leave a comment Media Check Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) US-led EuropeanNGOs,CIA,Hamid Mir and Najam Sethi,Jundollah (God’s soldiers),Justice Javed Iqbal,Media’s hand in creating wrong ideas about intelligence agencies,Mossad and RAW,Noam Chomsky,Pakistani counterparts,Pakistani intelligence agencies Pakistan has given foreigners working for Save the Children a week to leave the country after becoming convinced that the aid organisation was used as cover by US spies hunting Osama bin Laden. . . . →Read More:Savior or Spy? Pak govt expels foreign employees of Save the Children Ayaz Amir If there was an international shoot-in-the-foot prize Pakistan would win it hands down,our genius for self-inflicted injuries surpassing that of all competitors. We don’t need RAW,Mossad or the CIA to conspire against us. We are self-sufficient in this department,no conspiracy from those quarters coming close to what we . . . →Read More:Behold the country of the inane It is easy to feel admiration and not a little respect for President Asif Zardari,who turns 57 this week. Like Manmohan Singh,he rarely allows himself to be interviewed by his own media because journalism on the subcontinent is quite poor. And so,while there is much reported about him,and rightly,his defence . . . →Read More:The admirable President of Pakistan The Arsalan Iftikhar affair has made history but for the wrong reason. It may be the only case that was based entirely on hearsay and yet the Supreme Court took it up. Even in its preliminary stage,the affair has so many intriguing aspects that an investigative journalist can explore and bring out a bestseller . . . →Read More:Facts you overlooked in the Mediagate scandal By Muhammad Abd al-Hameed The Arsalan Iftikhar affair has made history but for the wrong reason. It may be the only case that was based entirely on hearsay and yet the Supreme Court took it up. Even in its preliminary stage,the affair has so many intriguing aspects that an investigative journalist can explore and bring . . . →Read More:Behind the ‘Familygate’ Smokescreen Leave a comment Law &Order Arsalan Iftikhar,Behind the ‘Familygate’ Smokescreen,British Intelligence,case against Arsalan for extortion or blackmail,Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry,CIA,ISI could record Arsalan’s activities in England,Malik Riaz Husain,MI5,Salman Ahmad is son-in-law of Malik Riaz Husain With the story going through so many changes so quickly,the truth about Dr Afridi’s case is cloudier than ever. One thing is clear,though – Dr Afridi did engage in one indefensible act:Using a critical healthcare programme as cover for his activities. Unfortunately,in expressing concern about Afridi’s willingness to risk the credibility . . . →Read More:Dr. Afridi delivers another blow to polio eradication in Pakistan By Zoon Ahmad Khan For the most part Americans and the World believe Pakistan has fallen no short of treacherous in the ‘War on terror’ that started eleven years ago. Islamabad’s so-called ‘shady tactics’ have given her biggest ally cold feet,time and again. With aid cuts and unilateral attacks Washington has been able to . . . →Read More:Tacstrat:What double-game? 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