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| Foreign journalists tell us about ourselves. Shall we tell them about them? Journalist Myra MacDonald had not expected Pakistan’s tribal areas to be so neat and so prosperous. These were meant to be the badlands, mythologi ... |
| After 62 years still fighting over our Name. Please give us a name. Nawaz Sharif’s bombshell on Thursday had everyone scrambling for an explanation. The PML-N chief himself wanted to talk about reopening the i ... |
| A letter forwarded to me. Dear friends,I wanted to share my recent article on the death of Imam Luqman Abdullah published in yesterday's Huffington Post. Mr. Abdullah's death ... |
| The Story of my Shoe The Story of My Shoeby Mutadhar al-Zaidi In the name of God, the most gracious and most merciful. Here I am, free. ... |
| Pukhtunkhwa: International Women's Day, March 8 Women who have to venture out on a daily basis feel insecure in Peshawar. — PPI ... |
| The Socio-economic factors for joining the Taliban: A sad story of Insecurity Shall we stand up to the Taliban? The T ... |
| Swati's in New York suffer too From Pakistan, Taliban Threats Reach New York Bakht Bilind Khan, who was living in the Bronx, was kidnapped by the Taliban during a ... |
| Afghanistan's continuing misery "Fair Use" Statement: These ... |
| The Best there is: The best there is Wednesday, 24 Dec, 2008 | 06:48 PM PST | hr { border: none 0; b ... |
| Balochistan: More spin control from the Pakistan government: Unbelievable! "We’ve moved from the insurgency phase to the reconciliation phase, but all’s not well. If foreign elements continue to infiltrate Balochistan, they c ... |
| Earthquake: "An act of God" - Why for? QILLA CHARRI VILLAGE : It’s cold and miserable out here in the open. The Kakar Pashtuns, who have called the inhospitable terrain of Ziarat their ... |
| The beginning of the Invasion of Pukhtunkhwa - Remember you first read about it here! Saturday October 4, 2008: Two suspected U.S. missile strikes Friday on villages close to the border with Afghanistan killed at least 12 people, Pakist ... |
| The role of ISI Soon after the US invaded Afghanistan and overthrew the Taliban government in 2001, I predicted that Taliban resistance would resume in four years.My ... |
| How to catch Osama? Help the PashtunsBy Rahimullah YusufzaiTo kill or capture Osama bin Laden, the United States will above all need to win friends and allies in Pakistan ... |
| Pashtun Blood is not cheap blood By Rustam Shah Mohmand The writer is a former ambassador and chief secretary of NWFP. The original version of this article was first published by ... |
| After the British, the Pakistan Army dares to enter Waziristan. As in Bangladesh, the outcome is obvious. The border area consists of large tracts of inhospitable terrain Enlarge Image At 11,000 feet, with the temperature dipping 10 degre ... |
| How to deal with Pakistan - raise the economic level of FATA Like its towering mountains, Afghanistan looms as a serious security threat, with Taliban attacks on US and NATO forces there rising precipitously. Bu ... |
| American can use Pashtun know how of the their land Peshawar, Pakistan -- Here, at the base of the fabled Khyber Pass, the British Raj not only trained the famous Khyber Rifle Regiment but, knowing they ... |
| Fighting Terrorism is NOT America's war alone, more Pashtuns are dying than others The swelling forces of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan’s border region pose a grave threat to American and NATO troops in Afghanistan. T ... |
| Report: Drinking Green tea saves lives by making arteries more flexible Something the Pashtuns have known for ages has been confirmed by science yesterday (July 2008) - Pashtuns drink green tea with all meals especia ... |
| Parachinar: A piece of heaven turned to hell - a first person account. PAKISTAN has failed in protecting Frontier and tribal areas. Taking a cursory look of the overall condition of the Frontier and Fata areas, it seems t ... |
| Rebuilding a peaceful Pukhtunkhwa THE recent bloody attacks on the peace jirga in Darra Adam Khel and the funeral in Swat represent the worst aspect of terrorism. It defies both logi ... |
| With malice towards all, the evil in some hearts of Pukhtunkhwa needs surgical removal Every so often, the world witnesses the malice that lives in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt – bombings in London and Madrid and the plot to blow ... |
| ANP rejoices with restraint By Adil Zareef RIGHT until now the overriding three A’s for Allah, America and the Army were meant to be Pakistan’s preordained destiny. Finall ... |
| The role of "Pathans" in the early days of Bollywood... Even Lata Mangeshkar's great voice required a chance introduction by a Pashtun.Lata herself recalled that after being rejected initially for her "t ... |
| This war is too serious to leave to one General Pakistan, the fifth-largest recipient of American aid, is set to get $785 million in President Bush’s next budget. That includes $300 million in dir ... |
| Appeasing the Militants in the Tribal areas of Pakistan Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: Appeasing the Militants EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Taliban and other foreign militants, includin ... |
| Pakistani Taliban The Pakistan Taliban Graham Usher February 13, 2007 (Middle East Report contributing editor Graham Usher is a journalist and writ ... |
| One Pashtun's story.. In military conflicts, including the current ones, the US has relied on thousands of foreign soldiers and contract workers. Drivers, nurses, cooks, ... |
| The Baloch Insurgency The Baloch InsurgencyPakistan continues to grapple with insurgent violence in its southwestern province of Balochistan, which is bounded by the count ... |
| Hafiz-e-Qur'an preaches peace in Kabul. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The village medicine woman caked the baby's eyes with a concoction of opium and tobacco, telling his parents it would cur ... |
| There is never going to be a Nato victory in Afghanistan There is never going to be a Nato victory in Afghanistan The military option is going nowhere. The way forward is to emulate Pakistan by wi ... |
| What's hanging over your head? What's hanging over your head? It's not a weapon, but rather a literary device essential to human thought Robert Fulford National Post ... |
| Time to eat crow. Time for plan B for Bush & Blair It’s time for Bush and Blair to try plan B – the humility option Simon Jenkins ... |
| A Canadian, a woman, a wife and a soldier ... in Afghanistan. Goddard: I feel like a poster child for the Forces By The Canadian PressTORONTO — A female Canadian soldier killed in combat Wednesday in Afghanis ... |
| Conflicting objectives Security&Terrorism Outside View: Afghan War Problems By William S. Lind May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON, May 16, 2006 (UPI ... |
| Gitmo: A young PakhtanA writes ... Face to face with the war on terror GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba The sailor at the entrance to Camp Echo peers through the gate as Peter and I hold u ... |
| Understanding Muslim societies Tribes, Veils, and Democracy Understanding Muslim societies by Jon Basil UtleyUnderstanding much of the Muslim world can be helped by reviewingBraveh ... |
| Another point of view about the situation in Afghanistan. Afghanistan & Pakistan by Ahmed Rashid and David Barsamian; Join this PF Site: Become a member, now! ... |
| Musharraf is America's boy just as another Pak leader did the Brits work for them. A back of the handBy Michael F. ScheuerPublished April 7, 2006For a quarter century, U.S.-Pakistan relations have alternated between episodes of far ... |
| Kashmir: Lessons From Another Insurgency Lessons From Another Insurgency By ANIT MUKHERJEE Washington DURING his trip to South Asia, President Bush has done his best to w ... |
| Good war, Bad war? THE OTHER BAD WAR By Ted RallWed Mar 1, 6:42 PM ET More Torture ... |
| This article appeared in the New York time today, just before the prison breakout from "Pul-e-Charki" A Growing Afghan Prison Rivals Bleak Guantánamo By TIM GOLDEN and ERIC SCHMITT While an international debate rages over the future o ... |
| Osama, Saddam and the Ports - NYT Osama, Saddam and the Ports By PAUL KRUGMAN The storm of protest over the planned takeover of some U.S. port operations by Dubai Po ... |
| No Justice, No Peace (NYT) No Justice, No Peace By BOB HERBERT If you talk to Maher Arar long enough, even on the telephone, you'll get the disturbing sense t ... |
| NYT: Kicking Arabs in the Teeth Kicking Arabs in the Teeth By DAVID BROOKS It's come to my attention that many of the foreign goods we import into our country are ... |
| NYT: The Torturers Win ( On being Muslim in America after 9/11) The Torturers Win By BOB HERBERT Justice? Surely you jest. Terrible things were done to Maher Arar, and his extreme suffering was ... |
| Balochistan: Autonomy or secession? A Lahore-bound bus from Quetta has been time-bombed, killing 12. The bomb was placed under a seat near the back of the bus. There was no immediate c ... |
| Khyber Pass: Same as Khaybar? WORD FOR WORD: Is ‘Khyber’ the same as ‘Khaybar’? —Khaled Ahmed There is a legend that the first cousin of the Prophet, Hazrat Ali, came to ... |
| The Islam the Riots Drowned Out (NYT) The Islam the Riots Drowned Out By EMRAN QURESHI Published: February 12, 2006 ... |
| Shi'a: The meaning of Ashura and its observance Ashura observed with fervour ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: Mourners all over Pakistan observed Ashura, the 10th of Muharram, on Thursday and paid tributes to H ... |
| Part of our goal is to expose Pashtun to outside influences. This is posted for that reason. The Bare Essentials of Dance By GIA KOURLAS The associated photo's are under the heading of Unusual Pictures WHEN RoseAnne Spradlin's "NO ... |
| Islam-West divide 'grows deeper' Islam-West divide 'grows deeper' Malaysia's prime minister s ... |
| Sectarian Strife Kills 31 in Pakistan and 6 in Afghanistan (NYT) February 10, 2006Sectarian Strife Kills 31 in Pakistan and 6 in Afghanistan By CARLOTTA GALLand SALMAN MASOOD LASHKAR GAH, Afghani ... |
| NYT: Drafting Hitler Drafting Hitler By DAVID BROOKS You want us to know how you feel. You in the Arab European League published a cartoon of Hitler in ... |
| Cartoon Controversy: Newseek Holy War The cartoon brouhaha really illustrates the divisions within the Muslim community, not with the West.By Olivier RoyNewsweek InternationalFeb. ... |
| Balochistan: Double Trouble Trouble in Pakistan’s energy-rich Balochistan As Islamabad moves to exploit its geo-strategic ca ... |
| Pukhtunkhwa: The "Pakistani" Frontier. Pukhtunkhwa: The Pakistani Frontier ... |
| Another Book review about "The Kite Runner", a 'must read', for all Pashtuns. One Man's Struggle for Internal Peace function jump(x) { if (x == 'next') { if (currentpage == paragraph.length) { curren ... |
| Pukhtunkhwa: In praise of Wali Khan, a letter. Wali Khan “ONLY a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die — real nations respect them when they are alive”. These were the golden words utter ... |
| Bin Laden's statements and a translation problem. York repeated disputed claim that bin Laden warned U.S. states to vote against Bush Summary: On MSNBC's Hardball, National Review White House corr ... |
| Afghanistan: Reconstruction, democracy and Karzai Au revoir Afghanistan: A debriefing By Ben Tanosborn Jan 19, 2006 It caught me by surprise. After almost three years, ... |
| Kalabagh controversy Kalabagh controversyBY IRFAN HUSAIN 12 January 2006 PEOPLE can be excused for being confused by the sound and fury surrounding the Kalabagh Dam con ... |
| Noam Chomsky: Bush & Iraq. Beyond the ballot January 6 2006 THE US President Bush called last month’s Iraqi elections a "major milestone in the march to democracy." Th ... |
| Waziristan: A repeat of the 1971 debacle? For Pakistan's powerful military and the rugged Pashtun tribesmen, the South Waziristan region, near the border with Afghanistan, is a virtual wa ... |
| What, Balochistan again? What, Balochistan again? by M B Naqvi Saturday Dec. 31, 2005: For the fifth time ... |
| Afghanistan: People do dance - a forbidden beauty. Forbidden Beauty Dances of the Peoples of Afghanistan Information auf Deutsch Current events have forced us to as ... |
| Khalilzad - An unlikely American Viceroy 28 Dec 2005American Viceroy John Lee AndersonZalmay Khalilzad’s mission One afternoon in mid-October, Zalmay Khalilzad, the American A ... |
| From an Email: an account of the Earthquake The best and the worst By Ayaz Amir GO see for yourselves, as I have done this past week, and you would repeat Dickens’s opening salvo in A Ta ... |
| Earthquake story..Time to help an ally: Pakistan Time to help an ally in need Pakistan is desperate for aid after a killer quake. The U.S. should seize the chance to assist a country on ... |
| South Asia Tribune calls it Goodbye.. Gen. Musharraf will sleep easy on November 1, when The South Asia Tribune (SAT), which has been a giant thorn in his ... |
| Afghani Immigrants: Stories of Expatriation and Dreams of Return Afghani Immigrants: Stories of Expatriation and Dreams of Return Jeddah Asharq Al-Awsat- Behind the finely detailed Persian carpets that never fai ... |
| Pukhtunkhwa: Insurgency can not be defeated. Hands Off Pakistan Blaming the wrong country for Afghanistan's woes by Brian CloughleyThere has been an increase in violence in Afghanistan, and s ... |
| Institutional Flaws of the Electoral System in Afghanistan Thinking and Acting Locally: Institutional Flaws of the Electoral System in Afghanistan by Kevin Watkins ... |
| The self-righteous speak ... Madressahs: need for a broader curriculum By Mansoor Alam THE opposition of Islamic orthodoxy to the teaching of sciences, mathematics, eco ... |
| Feroz Afridi presents "Dastar" to Orakzai Chief. ‘Pakistan intelligence officials believe Bin Laden moving in rugged border terrain’ Doha-based Pashtun leader Firoz Khan Afridi (right) pr ... |
| E=MC squared, it still is. NYT- thought provoking article September 30, 2005 That Famous Equation and You By BRIAN GREENE DURING the summer of 1905, while fulfilling his duties in ... |
| Rahman Baba: Poet of the Pashtuns Rahman Baba: Poet of the Pashtunsby Haroon Rashid Source: BBCPashtun culture has suffered over the past few years with its link to the Taleban and ... |
| RAWA : Women find a leader in Afghanistan Women of Afghanistan find a leader Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 09/23/2005 - 05:51. ... |
| Army action in South, later in North Waziristan Janus-faced c ... |
| Call to end FCR in the FATA Waziristan in the tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan PAKISTAN: CALL TO ENFORCE LAWS IN ... |
| Bin Laden's whereabouts remains mystery 4 years after 9/11 attacks Bin Laden's whereabouts remains mystery 4 years after 9/11 attacks ... |
| Making Afghan Children Smile Making Afghan Children Smile ... |
| Games in Afghan poppy land Games in Afghan poppy land SUJAN DUTTA ... |
| Don't call them 'acts of God' Don't call them 'acts of God' NIALL FERGUSON, NIALL FERGUSON is a professor of history at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the ... |
| Afghans hope ... Afghans hope election offers healing for decades of strife BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY Knight Ridder Newspapers BARAKIBARAK, Afgh ... |
| The rise and [impending] fall of two Pashtun celebrities Analysis The rise and [impending] fall of two Pashtun ... |
| Chasing the $ prize (from the CSS) Chasing the million-dollar prize US wanted adverts for Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar come u ... |
| NYT: Debate in Pakistan about Terror camps In a Corner of Pakistan a Debate Rages: Are Terrorist Camps Still Functioning? By DAVID ROHDE and CARLOTTA GALL Published: August 28, 2 ... |
| From Al Jazeerah: The Rise and Impending Fall of the Two Pashtun Celebrities The Rise and Impending Fall of the Two Pashtun Celebrities Khalilzad and Karzai By Ben Tanosborn Al-Jazeerah, August 26, 2005 W ... |
| Dawn: The price tag of alliance with the US The price tag of alliance with the US By Mustafa Malik IN HIS Independence Day message President Pervez Musharraf reiterated his vow to def ... |
| The Pre-election Atmosphere of Afghanistan The Pre-election Atmosphere of Afghanistan 25/08/2005 By Mohammed Al Shafey (AFP)(AP) Kabul, Asharq Al-Awsat- The topic ... |
| NYT: A Kuchi's story A Nomad Campaigns to Serve Her People in Afghanistan B ... |
| BBC report: Pakistan's undeclared war in South Waziristan Pakistan's undeclared war ... |
| A woman's life.. The place where women risk lives to run for office Declan Walsh in Ziarat TalashSaturday August 13, 2005The Gua ... |
| NYT: Trading Cricket for Jihad August 4, 2005 Trading Cricket for Jihad By DAVID BROOKS Nothing has changed during the war on terror as much as our d ... |
| 'Defending ourselves' in northwest Pakistan: By a Punjabi Canadian 'Defending ourselves' in northwest Pakistan In the restive Tribal Areas, the West is seen as the aggressor The Federal ... |
| New book: In the face of Jinn - Review "In the Face of Jinn" by Cheryl Howard Crew (St. Martin's Press) is recently out in hardcover. Set in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 1990s, i ... |
| Pashtun nationalists framed by Pakistani forces, wrote poetry in GITMO Peshawar, Pakistan -- During three years in Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost says that poetry kept him from losing his sanity. By the time o ... |
| From the ISNA web site.. by: Juan Cole, Professor of History, Univ. of Michigan Saturday, July 09, 2005 Friedman Wrong About Muslims Again And the Amman Stat ... |
| Pakhtun and Music Pakhtun love music but hate musicians’ Abid Jan Razarwal, May 15, 2005PESHAWAR: Ghani Khan once remarked that Pakhtun love music but hate musicians. ... |
| Afghanistan's Media Renaissance After decades of suppression, a new, vibrant media is making its presence felt in Afghanistan. By Abubaker Saddique Half way between the western Afg ... |
| Up to the Task? Afghanistan’s new democratically elected government of westernized technocrats looks good, but can it meet the overwhelming challenges that are almost ... |
| Future Unknown - Pakistan's epitaph?? Is it too early to write Pakistan's epitaph? According to Stephen Cohen's analysis in his book, The Idea of Pakistan, there is hope yet... ht ... |
| PAKISTAN'S ISI -Part II PAKISTAN'S INTER-SERVICES INTELLIGENCE (ISI)by B. Raman After completing his tenure in Moscow, he had co-ordinated theclandestine shipping of missile ... |
| PAKISTAN'S ISI - Part I PAKISTAN'S INTER-SERVICES INTELLIGENCE (ISI)by B. RamanThe intelligence community of Pakistan, which was once described bythe "Frontier Post" of Pesha ... |
| Afghanistan -Human Rights Practices 2004 Afghanistan Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2004 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor February 28 ... |
| Pashtun Pashtun are also called PUSHTOON, or PAKHTOON, PATHAN, Persian AFGHAN (ABGHAN), Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. ... |
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