‘Analysis & Opinions’ Archives
“Can we fight America?”
Afpakwar | Arshad Zaman | 25 June 2011 Although denied by an Army spokesman, according to the New York Times (June 15, 2011), General Kayani is said to have observed in a recent talk to his officers that “We are helpless,” and to have asked rhetorically, “Can we fight America?” Whether true or false, as explained in a recent article [...]
The Solution
Afpakwar | Arshad Zaman | 25 June 2011 Enough talk. Everyone is asking, “What is the solution?” Without learned evasions, let me provide a direct answer, by outlining one set of practical responses to the challenges we undeniably face. The immediate objective, clearly, must be to redeem the liberty and protect the lives of the people of [...]
Remove American Forces from Pakistan
Afpakwar | Arshad Zaman | 30 July 2010 It’s official: although careful not to leave any footprints, the U.S. has boots on the ground in Pakistan. U.S. troops in Pakistan ensure compliance by the government, under threat of overt occupation. This was revealed on Thursday 22 July 2010, when U.S. lawmakers Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Ron Paul [...]
The West’s War Crimes are Much Greater than Israel’s
YNet | By Shaul Rosenfeld | 30 July 2010 Hypocrisy’s finest hour Revelations of West’s crimes in Afghanistan highlight anti-Israel hypocrisy In an interview with PBS earlier this year, Richard Goldstone was quite amazed by a question regarding the suspicion that he and others may, heaven forbid, adopt a double standard in respect to [...]
Wikileaks: Osama bin Laden died in a Peshawar hospital, and other howlers
The News | By Rahimullah Yusufzai | 30 July 2010 WikiLeaks falsehood PESHAWAR: Revelations by Wikileaks based on classified US military files on the Afghan war contain a trove of interesting and sometimes true information, but an element of falsehood is also there, such as one intelligence report in June 2007 that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin [...]
On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 28 July 2010 On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan; the tip of an old iceberg I’ve been resisting diving into the WikiLeaks controversy, in part because the information contained in the documents – including allegations of Pakistani complicity with the Taliban - is not new. Yet at the same time you can’t [...]
Memoirs of Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef
Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 10 Feb 2010 “My Life with the Taliban” – on study and Islamic values In “My Life with the Taliban”, Abdul Salam Zaeef — who fought with the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later served in the Taliban government before it was ousted in 2001 — writes of how he longed [...]
An Islamic ‘marriage-with-relinquished-rights’ gone awry in UK
asharq alawsat | By Dr. Hamad Al-Majid | 29 July 2010 The Misyar Question! A Nikah al-Misyar is a contract of marriage that meets all the conditions of a valid marriage contract under Islamic law --essentially, offer and acceptance by both parties, a specified dowry, and the consent of the guardian--but incorporates a voluntary relinquishment [...]
Wikileaks: The folly that is Afghanistan
Guardian | By Simon Jenkins | 27 July 2010 A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan By recording failure in meticulous detail, the leaked war logs bear devastating witness to our incompetence Is it the death of war? In Vietnam the horror of fighting was brought to TV screens in real time. Such was the reaction that American [...]
On the Coming Fall of the American Empire
Campaign for Liberty | By Daniel McCarthy | 23 July 2010 Bruce Fein's American Empire: Before the Fall is not for the faint of heart. "You, your family, your friends, your professional colleagues, and your elected and appointed officials in the nation's highest circles will fiercely resist the truths this book expounds," the author warns. He's [...]
