Tag: Al Qaeda

India’s misplaced jubilation over designation of Masood Azhar as global terrorist

May 1, 2019

The reaction of Indian intelligentsia clearly suggests that India lost its latest diplomatic battle to isolate Pakistan and designate Pakistani State as sponsor of terrorism. Modi may exploit the illiterate masses for his electioneering, but Pakistan has emerged victor, with Chinese help, totally un-bruised and unscathed. HUSSAIN SAQIB India lost its diplomatic battle at the … More India’s misplaced jubilation over designation of Masood Azhar as global terrorist

Mini-9/11 in Benghazi: Why the Americans are so adept at turning friends into foes?

September 13, 2012

Killing of  US Ambassador in Libya is not only a condemnable act, it is sad and gory. An ambassador is supposed to be the most protected precious asset in the host country even when the two countries are at war with each other. And Libya and the US won friendship the hard and bloody way. … More Mini-9/11 in Benghazi: Why the Americans are so adept at turning friends into foes?

Americans fund and arm al Qaeda to topple Assad regime in Syria….

August 6, 2012

The Americans seem to have shifted their focus, at least for the time-being, from Afghanistan to Syria. And its has enlisted new allies. According to reports, Al Qaeda and the US are fighting a battle to topple their common foe; Bashar al Assad regime in Syria. Shocked anyone? Al Qaeda is America’s Enemy Number One because … More Americans fund and arm al Qaeda to topple Assad regime in Syria….

Strategic callousness: Deep inside the President’s Secret Army….

February 14, 2012

In civilized societies, it is considered near-taboo to take advantage of someone in deep distress. Nations do take advantage of other nations’ hour of need for their own strategic objectives but taking advantage of a nation devastated by an earthquake is nothing short of strategic callousness.  As if the episode of Dr Shakeel Afridi was … More Strategic callousness: Deep inside the President’s Secret Army….

Post-US Afghanistan; India’s involvement will imperil the entire region….

October 11, 2011

Hussain Saqib The current US-Pakistan relations are being influenced by the Indo-US desire to completely eliminate Pakistan’s influence in post-US Afghanistan. India is preparing to take over the reins of Kabul’s de facto government from the US. A very well authored script is being played out to discredit Pakistan and its human and material sacrifices … More Post-US Afghanistan; India’s involvement will imperil the entire region….

CAUTION: It is not legal to drone US-born terrorists….

October 2, 2011

Predator drones, used to kill terrorists with impunity, are legally not permitted to kill US-born terrorists. The US Constitution is very clear on this. The Constitution, however, implicitly encourages killing of non-Americans, terrorists or otherwise, guilty or innocent, men or women, young or old, without due process of law. God bless America. Americans are free … More CAUTION: It is not legal to drone US-born terrorists….

Inside Al Qaeda and the Taliban: Idle gossip, unverified truth and foreign connections….

September 15, 2011

By: Hussain Saqib Syed Saleem Shahzad, a little-known Pakistani journalist working for an equally little-known online newspaper died a mysterious death a few days before his book, Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, was to go on sale. The evidence suggested that he was tortured before death. Immediate reaction to the news of his death was … More Inside Al Qaeda and the Taliban: Idle gossip, unverified truth and foreign connections….

Lessons of 9/11: It could be expensive to frighten your own people…..

September 14, 2011

The world and particularly the Americans are remembering, with teary eyes, those 3,000 lives lost fifteen years ago in the most unfortunate terror attacks in the beginning of the current century. The attacks on the icons of America’s economic and military powers, World Trade Center and Pentagon, were unique in the sense that these changed the … More Lessons of 9/11: It could be expensive to frighten your own people…..