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Top Six Steps West Must Consider In Order To End The War In Afghanistan

By Sikander Hayat 1. Afghan insurgents are part of the fabric of Afghan society, can never be defeated just by force and there is a need for a political settlement. 2. West will have to talk directly to Mullah Omar and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as they are the two major stakeholders in the talks. 3. It has to be accepted that Pakistan is the main force that can help resolve the issue of Afghanistan. Pakistan has said categorically that it is talking with all levels of Taliban leadership to bring a lasting peace to Afghanistan. Afghan & Pakistani presidents met in Turkey before the London conference to discuss ways of dealing with Taliban. Real decisions are going to be made among Afghanistan & Pakistan, not the nearly 70 countries who met in London today. 4. India & Pakistan cannot coexist in Afghanistan. To get Pakistan’s help, the current occupiers of Afghanistan will have to ask India to leave that country. For last 9 years, India has tried to side-line Pakistan in Afghanist

Kabul Under Attack – A Wake Up Call For United States & Karzai Regime

By Sikander Hayat I am not saying that it is the start of the Tet offensive but this is major indeed. Militants striking at the heart of Kabul at about 100 yards from the presidential palace, where Hamid Karzai was going to take oaths from the new ministers, is an attack to send message to the United States that Afghan Taliban are still strong and able to mount headline grabbing attacks. This also signals towards a worrying development and that is the presence of Taliban sympathisers in Kabul. Nearly 20 men stayed in Kabul for days if not weeks planning this attack. They were fed, housed and armed by the people from within the city. This is worrying indeed for the NATO & US forces as this attack came just after the attack which killed 7 CIA operatives in Khost. Add this attack to the fact that there almost daily deaths among the coalition soldiers and the picture becomes even more disquieting. This attack also shows that Afghanistan is not ready to be left alone to its own device

Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski Talks About Afghanistan War & Its Implications For The Surrounding Regions – Pakistan’s Importance In A Resolution

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Hakimullah Mehsud Is Dead?

By Sikander Hayat There are unconfirmed reports that Hakimullah Mehsud, who is the leader of the Pakistani Taliban and got the leadership after the death of Baitullah Mehsud, has been killed in a drone attack. His organisation has denied these reports but there are strong indications that he is actually dead. US have been hunting actively after the attack on CIA base in Afghanistan in which a Jordanian Al Qaida operative killed 7 CIA men in a suicide attack. Few days later Hakimullah Mehsud appeared in a video with the alleged bomber and took responsibility for the attack. From that day it was a matter of time before Americans would kill him and today they might have achieved their purpose. Reports are still unconfirmed but if they are confirmed then there will be a need for a new TTP (Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan) leader. It will be interesting to see how Pakistani Taliban responds to this strike at their heart. RELATED POSTS 1. Baitullah Mehsud Is An Indian Agent 2. Distinction Betwee

Can United States Of America Change It’s Course & The Way It Treats The World?

By Sikander Hayat Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and now Yemen are under effective American occupation. Latin America was pacified during the reign of Ronald Reagan and “evil empire” of Soviet Union is long gone. Times are tough both for US and the Muslims around the world. Especially Muslims living as minorities in Western countries. With each passing day their future is becoming more and more bleak. The Al-Qaeda Terrorists are doing their best to isolate Muslims living in Europe & America from the mainstream societies and having a considerable success in doing so. With each and every attack or attempted attack on western interests, press coverage is painting all Muslims with the same brush. America is a juggernaut which will only change course when its time as an empire runs out like it did for Romans and Greeks before them. America will keep interfering in unstable parts of the world because when it does not, it gets blamed for not doing so. America will remain pro Israel as no one

Suicide Bomb Kills 40 & Injures Over 100 In Lakki Marwat, Pakistan - Are Foreigners Fulfilling Their Part Of The Bargain?

By Sikander Hayat Lakki Marwat has been targeted in a suicide bomb blast in which 40 people have died and at least 100 have been injured. This is part of the growing campaign of terror perpetrated by the Pakistani Taliban with the help of foreign elements including some quite nasty neighbours. Pakistan is still talking and not taking any action against infiltration from Afghanistan especially in the knowledge that American have removed many of their security check points along the border with Pakistan. This American act is allowing many fighters from Afghanistan to enter Pakistan and do their evil deeds. Pakistan must talk to US and tell them that the one way traffic of do more demands will not do any more and Americans will have to do more as well. Americans will have to fulfil their part of the deal and seal the Afghanistan Pakistan border from their side as well. Everyday many Pakistanis are dying because of the scourge of terrorism and due to active Indian support for their acts. A

Dangerous Escalation In Afghanistan - Eight Americans & Six Canadians Killed In A Bloody Day For The Coalition Forces

By Sikander Hayat It has been reported that in the Khost province of Afghanistan a suicide bomber has killed 8 CIA officers. The bomber was an Afghan Army officer and was well known to his victims. In a separate incident in Kandahar, four soldiers and a journalist were killed Wednesday by a powerful improvised explosive device in the worst loss of Canadian life in Afghanistan in two-and-a-half years. The five deaths occurred as the soldiers in armoured vehicles patrolled in what was considered to be a safe part of southern Kandahar city. The military did not immediately release any names because of problems notifying family. However, journalists on the base identified the reporter killed as Michelle Lang, 34, a reporter with the Calgary Herald. She was in the back of an armoured vehicle at the time. In one day coalition forces have lost 13 personnel signalling an increase in Taliban increasing their activity in the southern and eastern provinces of Afghanistan. This is also significant

Suicide Car Bomb Blast In Dera Ghazi Khan

By Sikander Hayat According to the latest reports a suicide attacker has attacked DG Khan in which ten people have died. Zulfikar ali Khosa, a senior Muslim league ( Nawaz) leader, his house has also been damaged. More than 10 shops are completely destroyed in Khosa market.

Why America Must Not Attack Quetta - Lessons From Vietnam

By Sikander Hayat These days Quetta is mostly notable because of Western & Indian propaganda about the presence of so called “Quetta Shura” but Quetta is a city with a different soul and is the most multiethnic city of the Balochistan province. Quetta has a rich history and is the holder of unmatched cultural beauty. These days USA is trying to find ways to attack Quetta but they are in for a surprise if they actually do this because straight away whatever goodwill is present in Pakistan for the America’s activities in this neighbourhood will quickly vanish and replaced by hostility. America thinks that Taliban have fled from Afghanistan and have settled in Quetta. Even if this statement is considered as true what is the guarantee that if Quetta is attacked then Taliban will not flee once again further into Pakistan. What will USA do then? Would they attack the rest of Pakistan in that case? This policy of furthering the war is not a wise one and is a mistake which America made in

America Will Start Leaving Afghanistan in June 2011 – Implications of Initial Surge & Eventual Withdrawal On Pakistan?

By Sikander Hayat Finally President Obama has given the clearest signal yet that United States of America is losing its appetite for an unending conflict in Afghanistan. Obama has given a timeline for the withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan and for that withdrawal to happen, he has increased the number of troops in Afghanistan by another 30,000 to finish the job. This is a kind of final push by the American president who is worried by the state of economy at home and who knows that if economy is not fixed by the time next presidential elections are around in 2012, he will have no chance of getting elected again. For that reason he wants to avoid a prolonged war and the best way to achieve the goal of a relatively short war is to put extra troops in the areas where Taliban are at their strongest. These are mostly southern & eastern provinces which include Helmand, Kandhar, Wardak, Paktia, Paktika, Farah etc. Fighting will be the fiercest in these areas, because Taliban had

Gordon Brown – Don’t Blame Pakistan For Your Own Failures In Afghanistan

By Sikander Hayat Mr Brown does not know how many soldiers Pakistan has lost to terrorists. You have been in Afghanistan for last eight years and you have not been able to break the back of Taliban & Al-Qaida. Why should not you be doing more to beat Taliban and Al-Qaida? Why with all your power, you were not able to stop Taliban from attacking the elections in Afghanistan? Why did you oversee the most corrupt elections in the history of the world? Pakistan is fighting your war and paying the price in the form of lost lives of innocent women, children and men. Don’t push Pakistan to the point where you have to hear “no more” from the people of this country. They are already paying the price of your sins as you attacked Afghanistan and then put it on the sidelines to attack Iraq. Why did you not care about Afghanistan when your eyes were all set on Iraq’s oil fields? Why did you not finish the job then when you had the chance? Why shift the blame now? In those years when you were

FATA - The Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan

By Sikander Hayat The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan is an area outside the four provinces bordering Afghanistan, comprising a region of some 27,220 km² (10,507 sq mi). The FATA are bordered by: Afghanistan to the west, the North-West Frontier Province and the Punjab to the east, and Balochistan to the south. The total population of the FATA was estimated in 2000 to be about 3,341,070 people, or roughly 2% of Pakistan's population. Only 3.1% of the population resides in established townships. It is the most rural administrative unit in Pakistan. FATA comprise seven Agencies, namely Khyber, Kurram, Bajaur, Mohmand, Orakzai, North and South areas of Waziristan. The main towns include Miranshah, Razmak, Bajaur, Darra Bazzar, Ghalanai as Head Quarters of Mohmand Agency and Wana . There are 20 legislators from FATA in the National Assembly and Senate of Pakistan. (12 MNAs & 8 Senators.) The region is only nominally controlled by the central government of Paki

Is It Possible To Resolve Conflict Between Pakistan & Afghanistan?

By Sikander Hayat There has been a feeling of mistrust between the countries of Afghanistan & Pakistan from the day of Pakistani independence from British rule. Afghanistan tried to stop Pakistan from becoming the member of United Nations as a recognised state. For the record, Iran was the first country to recognise Pakistan as an independent state on the map of the world. Afghanistan is a country where Pakhtuns have always dominated the corridors of power and their percentage in the ethnic composition of the country is 40% with Tajiks, Hazara, Uzbek and other ethnic group making rest of the 60%. Although there is a large number of non Pakhtun nationals of Afghanistan but still the ruling class of this country look at it as a Pakhtun nation and thereby give itself a responsibility to save the Pakhtuns living in neighbouring Pakistan. Here I am looking at the issue through the Afghan perspective which has the mindset that somehow people living in the tribal agencies of Pakistan need

Charsadda Car Bomb - Another Callous Attack On Pakistani Civilians of Pakhtunkhwa

By Sikander Hayat Charsadda has been attacked today when a car bomb was detonated in the heart of a busy public area. 15 people died and this figure is expected to get worse. Nearly a hundred people are injured. “Brave” Pakistani Taliban are butchering civilians everyday to teach Pakistani government a lesson and to retaliate against the army action in the tribal areas of the country. But killing of civilians will only bring their defeat closer.

India Is Supporting Terrorists In Pakistan To Bomb Innocent Women & Children

Sikander Hayat They asked for proof and proof is lying on every hilltop in Waziristan in the form of Indian made weaponry, life saving medicines and even rations. India cannot keep on pulling wool on the world’s eyes by using its many terror supporting bases disguised as consulates all along the Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan to spread terror in Balochistan and tribal areas of Pakistan. India is using its consulates in Jallalabad, Kandahar & Kabul along with hosts of others as staging posts for its proxies to fight against the people of Pakistan, planting bombs at crowded places killing hundreds of innocent civilians each time. Is this what a so called democratic country does to project her aims in the region, in India’s case, the answer is yes. Pakistan has been trying to tell the world for many years now that India is not only hurting Pakistan but also USA’s cause in the region as well because the longer the Taliban are stronger the longer USA will have to keep fighting in A

Pakistani Taliban Are Enemies Of Allah - Repercussions of Peshawar Blast

By Sikander Hayat Today in Peshawar the brave warriors of Allah again killed innocent children of Pakistan in a crowded market leaving lives unfulfilled, the sorrow of losing loved ones and deep deep hatred in the wake of the bomb blast. These people who have killed and maimed hundreds of innocent woman and children in the name of Allah are the real enemies of Allah. They pretend to fight for Allah’s cause but really they are the killers who get paid by the enemies of Pakistan to do their evil deeds. Pakistanis have had enough of this barbarism and there is a strong undercurrent against these so called warriors of Allah. Time is not far when anyone with a beard will refrain from going on the streets of Pakistan because people of Pakistan have seen the real face of these barbarians. Allah says in Quaran “If you kill one man, you have killed the whole mankind”. These so called Pakistani Taliban are puppets in the hands of Indian RAW and other foreign agencies and those who say that thes