The term “winning hearts and minds” is a simplistic and dangerous cliché reflecting a certain naiveté in American thinking that everyone yearns to be like us. In the struggle against those who would pervert Islam and use that despicable version of a great religion as a tool for terror, winning hearts and minds should not be our center of gravity.

The latest media reports indicate that the Lashkar e Zil (The Shadow Army or
Army of Shadows) is the organization responsible for the attacks on security
forces in Azad Kashmir. With the Tehreek Taliban Pakistan at its core the LeZ is
said to include the Herkat Ul Jehad Islami (HUJI), the Lashkar Jhangvi, the
Afghan Taliban militias of Mulla Omar, the Haqqani Network and the Herkat

Islamabad: The apparent elimination of Tehrik-e-Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud
two weeks ago in a Predator strike is, on balance, very good news. Mehsud was a
villain, murderer and reportedly the mastermind of former Pakistani Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination just after her return home as well as

Mike molen in his press conference yesterday dtd:23-7-09 urged that dialogues should be started with talibans because it is need of time. He was addressing media in the ceremony of launch of new drone aircrafts.

General Jehangir Karamat, former Chairman
of Pakistan's Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 1998, joined the Atlantic
Council's South Asia Center for a discussion on the challenges facing Pakistan's
army. General Karamat was Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States from 2004

From quite some time MQM and Altaf Hussain are telling the people of Karachi about the strong presence of Talibans in the city and their strong network and criminal activities, and urging the people of Karachi to prepare themselves to fight against Talibans, but the so called religious and also Political parties of Karachi always denies this.

Pakistani police say they have killed five militants linked to a
Taliban leader in the city of Karachi.The police chief said the
shoot-out took place after officers raided an apartment in the west of
the city.The militants were loyal to Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah
Mehsud and were planning attacks, he added.The raid comes as the

As the ‘surge’ in Afghanistan gets underway two tragic incidents are noteworthy.
The US air attack in Afghanistan’s Farah province on civilians a few weeks ago
and the latest drone delivered missile attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan
area on a funeral procession. The attack in Afghanistan killed 140 civilians

By Ghalib Sultan

As feared, the strong support for Operation Rah-e-Rast (against
Fake-Talibans and extremist miscreants who had been unabashedly
maligning the image of Islam and that of Pakistan) is threatening to
crumble courtesy Mian Nawaz Sharif's recently articulated 'worries'
over the offensive in South Waziristan.

(1)i was just wondering that why is it neceassry for the common pakistani person to be told that taliban are indian agents, before they oppose them.

why wasnt the fact enough that in the last several years taliban have destroyed schools, hotels, mosques, killed thousands of innocent people and literaly crippled our economy and isolated us internationally.

Last night a bombing attack destroyed the Pearl
Continental Hotel—located in a high security zone and Peshawer’s only
five star hotel. Before that the ISI ‘s provincial headquarters in
Lahore had been bombed and in between there was the suicide bombing of
the Police Rescue 15 building in Islamabad and a bloody attack on a

A day after May 27, Lahore woke up to a broken boulevard. An ugly howl hung low
on the ashen neighborhood that smeared television screens like fresh wound. The
explosion akin to god-sent calamity shook up the city as 115 Rescue-Squad
Building was razed to ground in a blinding blow that resonated all it hit in its

In the run up to the next year’s NPT Review Conference the world nuclear order
is in an acute state of flux and commotion. North Korea has rattled the world
with yet another and this time a successful nuclear test. But for any discerning
observer it did not come as a shock. It only highlights the dangers inherent in

Internally displaced people, fleeing a military offensive in the Swat valley, congregate in a camp run by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Swabi district, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad May 26, 2009. U.S.-based Human rights Watch said...

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A powerful bomb blast has rocked the city of Lahore. The attack was
carried out on Police headquarter which has been almost completely
destroyed. Another office of Rescue 15 has also been destroyed.

Imran Khan, Al Jazeera’s reporter in Pakistan, is filing regular dispatches
from the country as the army battles Taliban fighters in the North West Frontier
Province.
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SATURDAY's Strike :  (23-May-09)

About Iran, Henry Kissinger once asked whether the Islamic Republic was a
country or a cause. About Pakistan, the question is whether it's a country or
merely a space.

Leon Panetta, the CIA director, has said that the US does not know
the location of all of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons but is confident they
are ‘pretty secure’.

WASHINGTON, May 19: The US secretary of state acknowledged
on Tuesday that Washington had not been consistent in its dealings with
Islamabad.