Tag: pakistan

By Hamid Waheed Covert operations under media support have emerged as one of most powerful tool to psychologically defeat a community and force...

A total of 331 US officials in Pakistan, most of them suspected of engaging in espionage under diplomatic cover, have been "identified...

Like all the isms (communism, socialism, extremism, terrorism), Talibanization is also a phenomenon that didn’t occur in a vacuum and without causation.

I wonder if the president has considered the fact that Cheney just might be trying to get him to make the same kind of mistake in Afghanistan that the Bush Administration made in Iraq in order to take the Iraq issue off the table for the 2012 election? If during the 2012 campaign America is bogged down in Afghanistan with the useless death of thousands of U.S. troops, all of a sudden, Bush, Cheney, and the GOP won't look all that bad. The president should think about that possibility, since the mechinations of Dick Cheney makes Machiavelli look like a trainee.

CIA contractor Raymond Davis was released by Punjab officials after a reported deal was negotiated with the families of the two men he was accused of murdering. Davis was scheduled to be indicted for murder charges today. Security forces picked up the families last night.

Apart from its agenda in Afghanistan, the US had defined objectives set for Pakistan as well. Under the ruse of alliance, America wanted to denuclearize Pakistan and turn it into a compliant state subservient to India. For the accomplishment of its objectives, the US in connivance with Israel, Britain and India chalked out a comprehensive covert plan spread over 7-8 years to weaken it from within

Ynet reported yesterday , that in a BBC global poll gauging attitudes towards various countries worldwide, Israel came pretty much at the bottom -- There were just three countries less popular than the Jewish State – Pakistan, North Korea and Iran.

Although the US has carried out two troop surges and has increased its force level to over 100,000 and total ISAF strength to 152,000, initiative is still in the hands of Taliban. Possibility of regaining initiative by US military through Kandahar operation has become remote. Taliban have become more aggressive and hardly a day passes without a raid, IED explosion or suicide bombing. In 2010, they inflicted 711 casualties upon ISAF, which is the highest since 2001. Their morale is high since prevalent symptoms have boosted their optimism. They are confident that war has practically been won and total victory is not far off. Other than the Generals, US-NATO soldiers are weary, fatigued, depressed and have no heart to continue facing hazards without any purposeful cause. American economy is not recovering due to expensive war.

Contemporary world has witnessed new heights of coercive diplomacy. A public statement by President Obama declaring Raymond Davis a diplomat and asking Pakistan for his repatriation was overkill; indeed it was a diplomatic faux pas. American media was forbidden to mention the killer’s connection to CIA; ‘free and fair’ media faithfully obliged the government, until British media spilled the beans.

The standoff between the United States and Pakistan over the arrest of contractor Raymond Davis is not going to be solved unless both nations take a step into that "no man's land" of trust and honesty. There is no question about diplomatic status, this was a clumsy mistake made by State Department officials in Washington who had little or no understanding of the legal and political issues at stake. Recent admissions that Davis is "CIA" mean nothing. Nobody knows what "CIA" means anymore, not since the wave of privatization that has spread to many of America's critical security functions.

Tall, lanky, easy of manner and articulate, Obama exuded hope and confidence across the globe as he entered the White House. The world was yearning for a paradigm shift and he held out the promise of change from the former President Bush's disastrous policies of aggression and unilateralism.

As per Paul Craig Robert, hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed. While it enjoys torturing other peoples for American sins, it objects to human rights abuses of countries it despises such as Burma, Pakistan, Iran, Syria. In USA if a person tortures a dog he is sent to jail, but a government functionary indulging in torture against fellow beings is ignored.

London, Feb 20(ANI): Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region, providing Al-Qaeda terrorists with "nuclear fissile material" and "biological agents," according to a report.

DAVIS FOR AAFIA SWAP DEMANDED "Enclaves of Americans, CIA, Blackwater, "diplomats," are said to be all over Pakistan.  Webster Tarpley (video below) claims they...

Proposing a Fissile Material Treaty... By Air Commodire Khalid Iqbal for VT and Opinion Maker Pakistan’s nuclear capability has been security driven and not status motivated....

The developments in Tunisia and Egypt have provided the inspiration to Muslims all over the world that they can have their say. This is going to be a chain reaction in different Muslim countries of the world; a farewell to US puppets. Pakistan is considered to be a ripe case; Raymond Davis has come as a catalyst. The people of Pakistan have already tasted the fruit of street power through long marches that culminated on 16th of March, 2009 when the Judiciary was reinstated. Now the people feel that they too can react and bring about the change that’s more congenial, responsive and responsible towards the need of the people and the state of Pakistan.

WE WARNED YOU, WE SAW IT COMING... By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Right off the bat, I want to make myself clear, this is about...

Senior VT Editor Gordon Duff interviews staff writer Jonathan Azaziah on the greater geopolitical issues facing the USA and its role in the Middle East theatre.

FAMILY OF SLAIN DEMANDS HANGING FOR PHONY AMERICAN "DIPLOMAT" "Victims shot in the back repeatedly" By Gordon Duff And Raja Mujtaba Protests throughout the city of Lahore,...

Senior Editor Gordon Duff interviews VT Staff Writer Ken O'Keefe on the ground in Gaza and Staff Writer Raja Mujtaba curently in Pakistan on the crisis in...

TIES BETWEEN US CONTRACTORS, PAKISTANI OFFICIALS AND TERRORISTS ALLEGED WORLDWIDE MEDIA DUPED BY "DIPLOMAT/ROBBERY" COVER STORY By Gordon Duff and Raja Mujtaba for VT and Opinion...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently took a four-day tour of the Middle East, at each stop telling various allies and enemies, in classic...

The western analysts and think tanks strongly support the drone strikes in tribal areas bordering Af-Pak for obvious success in terms of friend and foe casualties’. They project the drone as the most important weapon to eradicate terrorists and terrorism.

By Khalil Nouri Staff Writter / Editor As C.S. Lewis says, “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means...

Israel’s Wikileaks operation has spread vicious lies about what actually took place in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, in an attempt to reinforce the official pro-Hindutva, the pro-Zionism narrative of Zion’s mainstream media...

Julian Assange ushering in a "new global information order?" By Wayne Madsen for www.opinion-maker.org The selective release of around a quarter million US State Department cables,...

FBI RECRUITS TERRORISTS, PLANS ATTACKS Introduction by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Joe Quinn of www.sott.net sticks to the facts.  His video report on FBI complicity in...

ITS ALL IN THE WIKI-MATH By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor One out of seven news outlets have noticed, thus far, that Wikileaks seems to have...

I have been waiting. I have been searching and reading. I have been waiting impatiently while searching and reading the initial pile of recently released Wikileaks’ documents, specifically those pertaining to Turkey. I have received many e-mails asking me impatiently to comment and provide my analyses on this latest international exposé. I am being impatiently patient in doing so, and here is a brief explanation as to why...........

By Hanan Habibzai,STAFF WRITER General Parviz Musharaf , who led Pakistan into a war, backed US-led occupation of Afghanistan in 2001  , and attacked...

Wikileaks has divided the world into two camps, those who love Wikileaks as a slap in the face for the United States and those who recognize the stench of Wikileaks for what it is, simple Israeli propaganda. Millions around the world look at Wikleaks as poor, harried Julian Assange and his personal struggle against the evil empire of Bush/Obama America. Hate, envy, oh, there is lots of envy here, America stimulates that with its highways filled with gas guzzling cars, eating half the world's meat, all the best music, television and a military that scares the begeezus out of everyone. What's not to hate?

There is much for Pakistan to come to terms with what happened in 1971. But the answers don’t lie in unthinking vilification of the fighting men who performed so well in the war against such heavy odds in defence of the national policy. Rather, in failing to honour them, the nation dishonours itself.

By Hamid Waheed: What wonders me is why the army is sleeping and not projecting its sincere efforts for common Balochi. Are they too simplistic or they have no knowledge of perception management. The efforts of new political setup are all excellent measures but hopefully will take into consideration and reinforce the common Baloch agenda already in ruin for the last 60 years and will not only find solutions to support feudal culture.

Lawyers who are specialists in the International Law of Armed Conflict, War Crimes Law to the rest of us, say the uranium smoke, dust and shrapnel must be able to be turned off when the battle is over. Too bad. Uranium gas is a radioactive and electrically charged poison forever.

Former President George W. Bush planned to invade Iran in 2007, even though America's military was exhausted and overstretched by two unsuccessful wars. His own popularity, at a real 8%, was the reason, that and the economic collapse that he was trying to push back until he left office. He believed a war would have saved his presidency, buried the $3 trillion dollars stolen by his friends and given him a legacy to be proud of, even if every family in America suffered.

NATO’s meeting to build political consensus across the alliance for the post-2011 phase of “gradually” handing over security responsibilities to the Afghan forces will be on the table in Lisbon this week. According to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, “The aim is for Afghan forces to be in the lead, countrywide, of security operations by the end of 2014.”

An epic American failure

US SILENCE ON KASHMIR EMBOLDENS INDIAN NATIONALISTS, EMPOWERS TALIBAN By Michael Hughes As ghastly as it was for an Indian diplomat to lexically collate the...

VT is pleased to announce that FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds is joining the VT staff. We at VT admire few Americans as much as we do Sibel. We have worked hard to be a home for people with courage and integrity.

Despite President  Obama's rhetoric (sometimes) to the contrary, his  policy of continuing  targeted assassinations by drone attacks over Afghanistan is escalating a drift to...

AIPAC, the Israel lobby used to, well, we don't exactly know what they are "used to" but every politician in America is terrified of it for some reason, claims to have total control over the new congress.

By Sajjad Shaukat: Most alarming point in this respect is that Indian sinister strategic designs under the pretext of so-called Islamic terrorism are not only creating obstacles in the East-West cultural cooperation, but are also taking the world to the brink of clash of civilizations.