ISLAMABAD: After remaining in power for almost a decade over one of the most turbulent countries in the world, Pervez Musharraf Monday stepped down, but dismissing all allegations leveled against him by the ruling coalition. Like the central character in a Shakespearian tragedy, Musharraf met the filial ingratitude both at the hands of the party [...]

While Al Qaeda has a problem with things elongated, where the length is always roughly three times that of the width, Hindus in India trek through the roughest terrain to go to Amarnath to offer prayers before an ice lingam By Ejaz Haider TS Note : From the land of the pure, a hilarious piece [...]

  1. Rhetorical Questions : James Fallows, The Atlantic 2. Eight Strikes and You’re Out : Thomas L. Friedman, The NYT 3. From Stupid to Moronic to Evil : Paul Craig Roberts, The Baltimore Chronicle 4. The Mukasey Doctrine : Scott Horton, Harpers Magazine 5.Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation : Glenn Greenwald, [...]

by Anwaar Hussain Every year for the past about seven years, the following article is run by the TS net with only a date change. Alas, nothing else has changed for Pakistan. It is the same old story of the same old wine in the same old bottle except with a poisonous dash of religious [...]

If past performance of the players in the game is any indicator of the things to come, the Pakistani nation better tighten up their seat belts; for the umpteenth time that is. By Anwaar Hussain There is no disputing the fact that the Commando in the President House, General (Retired) Musharraf, is the most out [...]

History After independence in 1947, two new intelligence agencies were created in Pakistan called the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Military Intelligence (MI). However, the weak performance of the MI in sharing intelligence between the Army, Navy and Air Force during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 led to the creation of the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence [...]

By Anatol Lieven The survival of Pakistan in its existing form is a vital U.S. security interest, one that trumps all other American interests in the country. A collapse of Pakistan — into internal anarchy or an Islamist revolution — would cripple the global campaign against Islamist terrorism. Strengthening the Pakistani state and cementing its [...]