PAKISTAN Special - so_called_war_on_terror_

Killers Without Borders

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:15:00 +0400

BY: MUHAMMAD DAUD MIRAKI, Director Afghan DU & Recovery Fund
It is interesting that people describe different periods in history with existing adjectives in use in each respective period. To judge an era as either beneficial or harmful, people in different periods in time used their respective linguistic terms such as good, comfortable, bad and evil describing the ambiance created by a regime, ruler or empire. Rarely, have people resorted to events as descriptive indicators of their experience in a particular period in time; instead, they used linguistic means, namely, adjectives in describing some period in history as either good…

5 Years of Iraq War

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:15:00 +0400

Pakistan Shift Could Curtail Drone Strikes

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:15:16 +0400

By: ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER
American officials reached a quiet understanding with Pakistan’s leader last month to intensify secret strikes against suspected terrorists by pilotless aircraft launched in Pakistan, senior officials in both governments say. But the prospect of changes in Pakistan’s government has the Bush administration worried that the new operations could be curtailed.

Among other things, the new arrangements allowed an increase in the number and scope of patrols and strikes by armed Predator surveillance aircraft launched from a secret base in Pakistan — a far more aggressive strategy to attack Al Qaeda and the Taliban…

The “War On Terror” Licenses A New Stupidity in Geopolitics

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 22:04:38 +0400

The language loved by Bush and Musharraf has translated into a global disaster bringing death and misery to millions

BY: SIMON JENKINS
Nothing and nobody can stop bombs going off. No citizen, no police force, no army, no government and no global military alliance can prevent a determined suicide bomber from blowing himself up. It will happen and innocent people will die as a result, horribly, as they do on the roads, from drugs and alcohol, or from natural disasters - again without responsible authority being able to stop it.

What is recent is the admission of this truism into…