Victory, responsibility and blame
Victory is inevitable. The recently announced and much awaited military operation by the Pakistan Army against militants holed up in North Waziristan will result in nothing less than an absolute…
View Point: …reaping the whirlwind
Last Sunday night's terrorist strike at the country's largest airport in mega-polis Karachi overshadowed another horrific incident that took place the same evening in a remotely-located small border town, Taftan.…
The grievance of Pakhtuns
Sophocles, one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived the ravages of time, was convinced that “Of all the ills afflicting men the worst is the lack…
Edge of the precipice
The entrancing pleasures of power and privilege seem to have numbed the senses of those perched in high places. Singly and collectively they are, without exception, fully aware that the…
Thoughts of a soldier
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif behaves as though he has been granted some sort of a mysterious beatific vision. He believes that he is destined to transform the country into a…
Talking peace again
Once upon a time, four wise men met with recalcitrant TTP leaders. Impressed by the merit of their arguments, convincing mannerisms and generosity of the state to let bygones be…
Terrorism and national security
The first ever meeting of the newly established Cabinet Committee on National Security was held on Tuesday and it could do no better than assign top priority to peace talks…
The real enemy
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained…
A narrow agenda
IT appears the prime minister`s revised offer of talks to the militants in his first address to the nation accentuated the existing differences among the latter on how to respond.…
Jailbreak
After months of planning, 200 Taliban fighters left for Dera Ismail Khan a few hours before Iftar. En route they stopped somewhere between Tank and FR Tank. There, the fighters…
