They have managed to reduce patriotism to someone who loves his country only because he was born in it, just as an extremist is one who believes in what he alone knows but knows nothing else. Pakistan has both in abundance – patriots and zealots. Ignorance nurtured in the lack of knowledge and total absence of awareness.
The grievances of Pashtuns, the progress of KPK, support base of PTM, role of PTI and PPP, and proposed next steps are discussed in this article and offer additional insight to this issue.
Syed Khalid Muhammad, CommandEleven Executive Director, spoke with Russia Today about the re-emergence of the Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the settled region of Swat.
Syed Khalid Muhammad, Executive Director – CommandEleven, spoke with Qadeer Tanoli of Bol News about the negotiations on-going between the Government of Pakistan and the terrorist outfit, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Syed Khalid Muhammad, Executive Director – CommandEleven, spoke with Russia Today on the on-going peace talks between the Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Government of Pakistan.
Syed Khalid Muhammad, CommandEleven Executive Director, spoke with Russia Today about the long-standing relationship between China and Pakistan, after the attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi.
Pretty early in his current incarnation, contrary to his pre-election absolute rejection of the option, Imran Khan decided to take the IMF route. To bless his about-turn, he sanctified it as a hallmark of leadership. Someone from Khan’s inner circle violated the decorum of the high office he had been granted for his sycophantic talents and sneered, that the promises made before polls were like pre-matrimonial vows – not to be taken to heart.
We, the State, had allowed the Uzbeks, the Tajiks, the Arabs, Africans, the Chechens and numerous other criminals from almost all over the world to come and settle down, here amongst the tribal belt and hijack the tribes. They decapitated the mushers, (leaders) usurped the tribal way of life, commandeered spaces, collected revenue by force and governed the area through coercion, force and terror, while the State was conspicuous in its absence.
The grievances of Pashtuns, the progress of KPK, support base of PTM, role of PTI and PPP, and proposed next steps are discussed in this article and offer additional insight to this issue.
Syed Khalid Muhammad, Executive Director – CommmandEleven, joined Ahmed Quraishi, a senior analyst and television anchor, to speak with Syeda Qudsiya Mashhadi on Voice of the East about the Pakistan Government’s negotiations with the TTP and the potential to deliver any results. Both panelists also spoke about Iran’s proxy war with Pakistan in detail.
‘Go and learn Islam from Bush’, were the taunts my men suffered as they patrolled the streets of Jandola. It was demoralizing to the rank and file and confused the issue of who was the enemy and who was friend. It was a difficult situation with Muslims facing Muslims in a war that few understood and even lesser wanted to fight.
The grievances of Pashtuns, the progress of KPK, support base of PTM, role of PTI and PPP, and proposed next steps are discussed in this article and offer additional insight to this issue.
The continued cliche of the famous “Strategic Depth” used to beat Pakistan with was a ridiculous concept, thrown up by a brigadier at the National Defense University (NDU), then known as the NDC, was purely an academic discussion, never a State Policy.
The grievances of Pashtuns, the progress of KPK, support base of PTM, role of PTI and PPP, and proposed next steps are discussed in this article and offer additional insight to this issue.
Some of them cannot afford to tell the truth; others do not know the truth; and still others fatuously believe that economizing on truth was good politics. Speaking with forked tongues was once the exclusive domain of the diplomats.
Indeed, the US is making much heavy weather of exiting Afghanistan, and of course it entered the Country in a fit of bullheadedness, Al-Qaeda having shown the red rag – and without much forethought. But that happens most of the time, and since even the best laid-out plans fly out of window after the initial salvos; it’s the afterthought that counts. And that’s where America went awfully awry.
Syed Khalid Muhammad, CommandEleven Executive Director, appeared in a Russia Today segment discussing the attack in Bajaur. Khalid put forward a very different perspective in regards to the attack, the reasons behind it, and what will happen next in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
