Monday, December 7, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
There’s a bit of Indian in every Pakistani: Zardari
Asif Zardari's address at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit.
23 November 2008
Boastful AQ Khan
Let's Buy Pakistan's Nukes by Bret Stephens
December 16, 2008.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Excerpts from AQ Khan's Letter
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
A.Q. Khan boasts of Paki proliferation
Pakistani Scientist Cites Help to Iran by R. Jeffrey Smith
September 9, 2009
Musharraf admits: US aid used against India
"There is nothing like this equipment has come from the US and must only be used against Taliban, or that equipment has come from China and must be used against this or that," he added.
Mr Musharraf confirmed that the weapons were indeed used against India.
Musharraf admits US aid diverted, BBC News
September 14, 2009
Nothing achieved from Indo-Pak wars
“We started the intrusions on the borders, and I think we should think about the Indian response at that time,” said Durrani while talking to Daily Times Editor-in-Chief Najam Sethi on his Dunya News programme on Sunday. He said the high-level military command was not involved in “a strategy to disturb India”, but politicians knew about what was happening along the border. He said then foreign affairs minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto also had no idea that India would cross the international border.
Durrani said he had participated in two wars, and “I now think Pakistan did not achieve anything from these wars”.
“We should extend [a hand of] friendship towards India, and start peace talks to settle disputes,” he said.
Pakistan started war with India in 1965: Durrani
September 14, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
AQ Khan should be sentenced for life
No Freedom for Mr. Khan, The New York Times, page A16
September 6, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
The Unceremoniously Rogue Paki Army
Because the Major's bosses in Islamabad will not tell her that he had led a column which had intruded into the Batalik sub-sector; that he had been killed by Indian troops some time last week; and that they had refused to take back his body.
The letter, written in impeccable English, was found among several documents and 14 bodies of Pakistani intruders inside a bunker somewhere in the Batalik area last week. The intruders had been killed in a hand-to-hand gun battle. And the Major was one of them.
A senior officer in Army HQ in Delhi says when troop sreached the bunker, they found the 14 dead men, unshaven, dressed in salwar and kameez, and "almost resembling any other militant". Then they found Shaheen's letter, ration registers, attendance registers, books, one which showed that someone was preparing for Pakistan Army's Staff College examinations -- all of which has confirmed that the dead men were Pakistani soldiers.
"When we pointed this out to the Pakistanis and asked them to take back the bodies, they refused point blank. This includes the response from their DGMO during his weekly chat with our DGMO," says the senior officer. "So it was up to us to bury the dead. Every soldier, even from the enemy side, deserves this honour."
Pakistan's Army wives wait in vain by Joy Purkayastha
8 July 1999
The Pakistan authorities have adamantly refused to acknowledge the involvement of Pakistan Army regulars in the misadventure in Kargil. The callousness and inhumanity with which they are persisting in this fiction is demonstrated in the current matter concerning the bodies of two officers of the Pakistan Army who had died in action on the Indian side of the Line of Control in Kargil. The body of Capt. Imtiaz Malik of 165 Mortar Regiment was found at Point 4875 in the Mushkoh sub-sector. The body of Capt. Karnal Sher of 12 Northern Light Infantry was found on Tiger Hill in the Dras sub-sector. The identities of these two officers were established by correspondence found on their person. Both bodies are in possession of the Indian Army authorities.
Press release issued in New Delhi regarding bodies of two Pakistan Army Officers
15 July 1999
So far, soldiers have buried the bodies of 197 intruders, Col. Singh said. Religious rites were also performed for 47 other bodies found rotting in shallow pits. Three bodies were handed over to Pakistani authorities last month and two others were still in a mortuary in New Delhi after Islamabad refused to accept bodies of the fighters, he said.
India extends Kashmir pullout deadline
16 July 1999
On Thursday the Indian army held Muslim funeral rites for seven of the Pakistani dead on a Himalayan peak above the town of Dras known only by its coordinates on a map: Point 4875.
The bodies were draped in Pakistani flags, sprayed with perfume, and lowered into a mass grave. "We know how to respect a soldier who has laid down his life in combat, be it the enemy, be it the soldier who has been fighting my men in battle," said Lieutenant-Colonel YK Joshi.
Pakistan and India play war game with the dead by Suzanne Goldenberg
17 July 1999
The resentment now developing in Baltistan and Gilgit, known as the 'Northern Areas,' came into focus following the Kargil conflict. Many Indians were shocked when the Pakistan army refused to accept the bodies of over 250 soldiers of the Northern Light Infantry, who are from Gilgit and Baltistan. Reports from Pakistan indicate that apart from this callous behavior, the Pakistan army high command sent back the bodies of over 500 of their war dead to their homes in the Northern Areas surreptitiously at night, at the height of the conflict in June 1999. These bodies were brought back and buried, without any military honours, in the civilian attire that NLI soldiers had been ordered to wear at the height of Kargil.
Autonomy, Pakistan style by G Parthasarthy
"It is not just the defeats that have shattered their morale, which is understandable," said the officer, "but also the refusal to accept the bodies of the dead soldiers and carry out the final rites and give them an honourable military burial."
The officer pointed out that the refusal to accept the dead bodies to deny culpability in the Kargil conflict has upset the soldiers of the Northern Light Infantry, who are from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
"Let us be very honest. If the bodies were of the Pakistan Punjabi soldiers, there is no way that Islamabad would have even dared to refuse to bring back the bodies. The only reason it really does not care is because the soldiers are Pakistani Kashmiris, from Gilgit and Baltistan, people from which areas are even denied the basic rights in Pakistan," said the officer.
The officer said it was the Indian media's fault that it did not highlight how the Punjabis discriminated against the Kashmiris in Pakistan. He said this would expose the hypocrisy of Pakistan, which was forever tom-tomming about how Kashmiris were suffering in India.
"This war has clearly indicated how the Pakistani Punjabi just does not care for the people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. While the Balti soldiers were sent into battle, the Punjabi officers stayed back in the comfort of the base camps. When the tide turned against them, the soldiers were left to fend for themselves, often without adequate supplies. And now, the Pakistani government is not even decent enough to take back the bodies," he said.
Indian army to resume operations in Mushkoh valley by Amberish K Diwanji
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Ruler's Games
p108-109, My life and times by Sayyid Mīr Qāsim
1965 Truth
I have little doubt that the Indians will never forgive us the slight of 65 and will avenge it at the first opportunity. I am certain they will hit us in E. Pak [East Pakistan] and we will need all we have to save the situation. The first day of Grand Slam will be fateful in many ways. The worst has still to come and we have to prepare for it. The book is therefore out.", General Akthar Hussain Malik in a letter to his younger brother Lieutenant General Abdul Ali Malik, dated 23 Nov 1967.
p49-50, Pakistan's drift into extremism: Allah, the army, and America's war on terror by Hassan Abbas
1965 Cover-up
Clearly, the political-military nexus had an interest in ensuring that nobody should find out what actually happened during the 1965 War — the former because of its incompetence and lack of leadership and the latter because of its culpability in taking Pakistan to war.
1965 War: A Different Legacy by Dr. Athar Osama
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
A Candid Confession
Militant groups slip from Pakistan's control by Carlotta Gall and David Rohde
15 January 2008
The Weasel Paki Army
Under Cover of Night by Ghulam Hasnain
The Wrong War - 1965
Lessons of the 1965 war - Daily Times, Pakistan
07 September 2005
Friday, July 31, 2009
Pakistan is the Problem
Pakistan Is the Problem by Christopher Hitchens
15 September 2008
Thursday, July 30, 2009
From terror to politics
From terror to politics by Praveen Swami. Frontline, Volume 19 - Issue 04. Feb. 16 - Mar. 1, 2002
Pakistan a Militant State
What's the Problem With Pakistan? - A Foreign Affairs roundtable discussion on the causes of instability in Pakistan.
Taliban is Pakistan's Strategic Assest
Face down Pakistani army by Selig S. Harrison
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Burqa & Bangles for Paki Generals
p235, Into the untravelled Himalaya by Harish Kapadia
Before 1987, this post called Qaid was in Pakistani possession till Subedar Bana Singh and his men captured it. After this debacle, Benazir Bhutto used to taunt General Zia-ul-Haq about losing Siachen and suggested he wear a burqa. After the loss of Kargil, the women in Pakistan were asking Nawaz Sharief to wear bangles.
Kargil is now the most richly decorated real estate in the world by Major General Ashok K Mehta (retd)
Monday, July 27, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Gen. A. A. K. Niazi
Gen A. A. K. (Tiger) Niazi: an appraisal by A. R. Siddiqi
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Kashmiri Freedom Fighters are 'Terrorists': Zardari
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Pakistan 'created, nurtured' terrorism
Yes, Pakistan nurtured terrorism, says Zardari, MSN News
08 July 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
India, Pakistan & Kashmir
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The Pak Myth
End-game? by Ardeshir Cowasjee
18 July 1999
Kargil Misadventure
Pakistan's line is that the uprising in Kashmir is "popular, spontaneous and indigenous." Its line, as voiced by its foreign minister on the BBC, is that all that it provides to the freedom fighters is "moral, political, and diplomatic" support. Does he know that the BBC news, just after his 'Hard Talk,' showed the Islamabad correspondent talking to freedom fighters who had just descended from the hills of Kargil to their base depot at Muzaffarabad to rearm, regroup and return? Why do our men mock us, and make a laughing-stock of us in the eyes of the world?"
Lesson learnt? by Ardeshir Cowasjee
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Energy Research in Pakistan
Islamic failure by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy