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In the preface to his book Inside Al Qaeda And The Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 , the late Syed Saleem Shahzad wrote: “I have never...

I don't really know what's happened to Kamran Khan . Since that day , a couple of days after the Abbottabad raid, he has been more o...

I realize that everyone is now in a position to lecture our defenders on how to defend themselves . Shut down PAF Museum, close down the sha...

Let's get some things straight. There are still a large number of BIG questions unanswered about the killing in Abbottabad of Osama bin ...

Unlike MSS, or at least partly unlike MSS, I truly was at a loss for words about the the assassination of Federal Minister for Minorities Af...

DISCLAIMER: This piece was written yesterday, and then languished overnight due to a PTCL outage. It contains emotion and other profanity. ...

This is a shocking video from Indian Kashmir which demonstrates once again what the mentality of a frustrated and unpopular military force b...

Five Rupees recently had a post about how Diplomacy Is Weird , basically because diplomatic double-speak is the engine international relati...

This story was posted earlier but some inexplicable issues with how the blog was viewable in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome has forced ...

I had begun writing a post about the strange suppression in the Pakistani media - print and television - of the news about the killing of, a...

One of the most thoughtful pieces about the recently held London Conference on Afghanistan has come from BBC Urdu's Wusatullah Khan , p...