Jabalia
Who is Hamas? Any child who hasn’t run away THE Jabalia Camp massacre changes everything. We are dealing with a criminally insane entity called Israel backed by a criminally hypocritical superpower. Some…
The TTP’s new battleground
IT was the most audacious cross-border incursion by the TTP. Reportedly, hundreds of heavily armed militants stormed Pakistani security posts in Chitral last week. The intruders were said to have…
Time to correct mistakes
IN the soap opera that is Pakistani politics, the year 2022 should be the climax. Limits were pushed, the Constitution was under threat, rights were violated to the core, propaganda…
Crisis of humanity
THE world watched in horror when Israeli forces attacked Al Shifa hospital in Gaza in another atrocity committed by a barbaric occupying power. Backed by tanks, the ground assault rained down terror…
Internal security
IN the public domain, ‘internal security’ is a much-discussed, but not very well understood subject. Simply put, ‘internal security’ encompasses everything a state does to protect lives and property within…
Violence on borderlands
THE ongoing deportation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan has stirred a debate, within and without. But this is a debate which involves little nuance. Overall, this policy of the great…
Persisting TTP threat
THE prevailing political and economic instability in the country offers perfect conditions for terrorist networks to grow and strengthen themselves. As persisting political turmoil dominates the mainstream discourse, terrorist groups…
Reviewing CT strategy
THERE was nothing in the communiqué issued after the latest National Security Committee meeting that we have not heard before. Phrases like ‘zero tolerance for terrorism’ and ‘violence will be dealt with,…
Revolt of the hopeless
SINCE 2008, UN figures show that some 250 Israelis and over 5,500 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, which equals a ratio of one Israeli to 22 Palestinians…
It is America’s war now
THE UN has warned that “an even more hellish scenario is about to unfold” in Gaza. Israel has now launched its heaviest bombardment yet on the Strip killing hundreds more…
