view: Beyond mere politics —Sarah Humayun
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view: Beyond mere politics —Sarah Humayun
Daily Times - Jul 23, 2008
The Taliban were - our hope of change through violence. Whatever the reason for Pakistans geopolitical support and betrayal of them, and whatever their transformations and permutations, that is what they have meant to us.
The question then is, how have we been wrong? Perhaps we cannot acknowledge that we are fighting them because we would then have to own that our dream of a change through violence on which, by the way, Pakistan doesnt have a monopoly has to be resisted. What other form can resistance and change take? That is what the debate has to be about. And that is why political discussions cannot be about politics alone.
The question then is, how have we been wrong? Perhaps we cannot acknowledge that we are fighting them because we would then have to own that our dream of a change through violence on which, by the way, Pakistan doesnt have a monopoly has to be resisted. What other form can resistance and change take? That is what the debate has to be about. And that is why political discussions cannot be about politics alone.
Video of 'martyred' child used for recruitment by Al Qaeda-linked
New York Daily News - Jul 23, 2008
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda allies running terror camps for tots on the Afghan-Pakistan border are using video of a boy “martyred†in
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AFP - Jul 23, 2008
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — The Pakistani army Wednesday wound up an operation in a restive northwestern town near the Afghan border after clearing the area of
Reuters - Jul 23, 2008
By Zeeshan Haider ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Wednesday it would neither allow Islamist militants to plot attacks on its soil nor let foreign
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