As the entire nation celebrated Pakistan’s 62nd birthday in recent days, the best bit of news came in the form of Swat where after years of Taliban tyranny, green and white reigned supreme across Swat.
The Swatis were out in force and celebrated 14 August like never before as shown by numerous TV channels. At a [...]
I am smiling as is Swat albeit slowly in delight at the good news that Pakistan’s internally displaced people have begun returning to Swat and the wider Malakand Division. No words of praise are good enough to honour the people of Swat and Malakand Division who have sacrified their all for Pakistan. Swatis have given [...]
June’s B-side continues in the same vein as those of April and May with its twin focus on US-Pakistan relations albeit in a new context looking at Uncle Sam’s fascination with our nuclear arsenal. The second focus remains Lucifer’s litter namely the Taliban and their evil.
June’s B-side contents are:
Pakistan and The Bomb by BRUCE [...]
Swat remains and will always remain close to my heart. The story of Swat and its destruction from heaven to hell has been told on Other Pakistan in detail here. The storytelling continues as it is a story that needs to be constantly told again and again for its lessons must be learnt by a nation and its people.
Today, I share a [...]
As the brave sons of the soil fight and defeat the vile Taliban in Swat, Buner and Dir, good news and hope must be the staple diet for Pakistan. In this regard I wish to share a video from a Buneri playing music in days gone by.
However I remain optimistic that the Taliban will be [...]
URGENT APPEAL: PLEASE HELP PAKISTAN’S IDP’s
This is a personal and urgent request for national and international help to save Pakistan’s internally displaced people now numbering over 1 million. Time is of the essence and I beg of you to help in any way you can either financially or by publicising the gravity of the situation [...]
Guest Blog by NADEEM ARIF NAJMI
Pakistan is a country fighting a battle for its very survival thanks to the frantic efforts of its ever-hostile Eastern neighbour, the ineptitude of Uncle Sam on the Western border and its constant drone attacks on Pakistani areas, and General Zia’s legacy – a generation of fanatical Mullahs hell bent [...]
For fear of flogging a dead horse and no pun is intended, be warned that this is another article on the video nasty from Swat. In its aftermath Taliban apologists have at the very least been economical with the actualité a la Alan Clark; instead they have come up with a plethora of excuses for [...]
Swat, Swat and Swat is all that I think about alongside the fall of FATA. The fall of both pains me no end as shown in my previous posts here. Today I remain angry and upset as is most of Pakistan.
However yesterday I was pleased to read an excellent article by Ejaz Haider in the [...]
The fall of Swat pains me as my previous posts on Swat have shown here. As a Pakistani I feel ashamed of how the state has sold Swat to savages to so-called sharia rule. A video has surfaced on the horrors of Swat and I am posting that video today knowing that it will pain [...]