Barbed wire, security check-posts, questioning by the security personnel asking for proof of identities – one might be forgiven for thinking it is an entry point to the beseiged Gaza strip in Palestine. But this is Mariabad—the Hazara locality in Quetta, Pakistan. The sectarian violence, bomb blasts, targeted killings caused fear in the city have […]
In his passionate speech to the parliament, Prime Minister Imran Khan stuck to his narrative that it was ‘their’ war in which we sacrificed 70,000 people and that we were ‘not recognised.’ He argued that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban never intended to cause any harm to Pakistan and that becoming part of the U.S.-led War […]
Do we remember the first “mission accomplished” in Afghanistan in 1989? After the Soviets left, U.S. and other Western countries also packed and left without rehabilitating the country or the fighters – the “mujahideen”, ten years after propping them as heroes recruited from all over the world. This contrasts with how U.S. deals with its […]