Psy ops over, time for truth
Anyone trained in the art of modern warfare would tell you the importance of what are called `psy ops` (psychological operations). Deployed by that Nazi master propagandist Goebbels before and…
Media’s perilous path
Vo intizar tha jiska, ye vo sahar to nahin (It’s not the dawn we expected; It’s not the dawn we were looking for — Translated by Mahmud Jamal) The words…
A narrative to be discarded
The hatred heaped on the iconic, defiant teenage survivor of Taliban oppression, Malala Yousafzai, is symptomatic of a much wider malaise. Whatever the more immediate reason(s) for demonising her, the…
Control of the narrative
The emerging narrative in Pakistan, especially in the Punjabi mainland and the urban centres of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, shows that the militant discourse is fast moving from social to…
A narrative to be discarded
THE hatred heaped on the iconic, defiant teenage survivor of Taliban oppression, Malala Yousafzai, is symptomatic of a much wider malaise. Whatever the more immediate reason(s) for demonising her, the…
Brothers in arms
WE love the Afghan Taliban the slayers of arrogant global superpowers but not so much their brothers-in-arms in Pakistan, the Tehreek-iTaliban Pakistan (TTP). Is there a method to our madness…
Brothers in arms
We love the Afghan Taliban the slayers of arrogant global superpowers but not so much their brothers-in-arms in Pakistan, the Tehreek-iTaliban Pakistan (TTP). Is there a method to our madness…
Time for action
A Macabre dance of death continues to grip the country. There is little hope that it will be stopped. Deaths have become mere statistics while the country is being turned…
Militants` media front
MILITANCY poses a serious threat to the security and stability of Pakistan. While the government and various state institutions are trying to respond in their own way and according to…
Deadly tentacles of terrorism
The ghastly and cowardly attack of September 15, 2013 by Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) on Major General Sanaullah Khan, Lieutenant Colonel Tauseef Ahmad and Sepoy Irfan Sattar, has once again exposed hollowness…
