Tag Archive | TTP
Why no outrage against Taliban?
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) executed 15 kidnapped members of Pakistan’s Border Security Guard, a paramilitary force that guards the country’s northwestern border region in a major blow to government efforts to pursue peace talks with the militants. While the news about this massacre appeared in media on January 5, 2012, the video was released to media [...]
Give Peace a Chance? Thank but No Thanks!
Published in Daily Times on Tuesday December 13, 2011 as my weekly column BAAGHI Pakistan’s ‘government’, it seems, is well on its way to ‘give peace a chance’ in compliance with the declaration of an unelected All-Parties Conference (APC) convened by the prime minister in September this year. The otherwise ‘hawks’ when it comes to [...]
Taliban, the US, Pakistan and the future
This appeared in Daily Times as my weekly column BAAGHI, on May 29, 2011 Last week started with yet another disgrace inflicted upon Pakistan’s security forces in particular and the entire nation in general by the militants our armed forces are fighting or not fighting in the northwest of the country. With every coming day [...]
A Record of U.S. Drone Attacks in Pakistan
For the use of news analysts, bloggers and researchers, I have compiled following record of US attacks on Taliban on Pakistan's territory. I could gather the news items about a total of 84 drone (un-manned predator planes) attacks on Pakistan by US forces since June 2004 to Jan 2010. If you can add to it [...]
