Crocodile tears and drone attacks on November 24, 2013The Nawaz Sharif government — perhaps because of its history of emerging from the womb of the army — appears to be eliminating the ‘bad Taliban’ much more covertly than its predecessors. Behind the angry posturing of PML-N Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and a coterie of politicians publicly denouncing the US for sending […]
Taliban resurgence the tail wags the dog on October 5, 2013Washington DC, October 4: Three consecutive terrorist attacks in Peshawar — which have killed and injured hundreds of innocent people — reflect a growing impatience of the Taliban for the ‘pre-selected” candidates of 2013 elections to deliver to their demands. These terrorist attacks — waged by criminal elements in a growing array of Taliban factions […]