omar | May 14, 2012
From the indefatigable Hamid Hussain: The Beginnings – Early Days of Intelligence in Pakistan Hamid Hussain India and Pakistan gained independence in 1947 amid chaos and violence. All assets including armed forces were divided between the two countries. Both countries inherited intelligence agencies set up by British colonial authority. In British India, the most [...]
omar | February 24, 2012
My post for Viewpointonline: http://www.viewpointonline.net/conspiracy-theories-feb.html The Mother of all conspiracies Conspiracy theories exist in every corner of the globe and the world being what it is, some must be true. As social animals, we naturally organize into an endlessly branching tree of groups and subgroups, all eyeing relatively scarce resources. Sometimes we cooperate with other [...]
omar | February 21, 2012
Mhereen Zehra has a theory about why the ISI produced 7 badly malnourished prisoners in court. Its a powerful article, but I think she may not be on the right track. Its possible that the prisoners were NOT produced to show how the enemies of GHQ are treated, but because the court did not back [...]
omar | February 17, 2012
more than 30 Shias killed in an attack on a mosque in Parachinar (including at least three killed in firing by security forces suppressing protests after the blast). The guy who has “accepted responsibility” (Fazal Haqqani) split away from the Bad Taliban last year and was therefore hailed as “good taliban” by the army. So much [...]
omar | February 16, 2012
Praveen Sami looks at the prospects of an Islamist-dominated Pakistan. Also see this piece by Myra McDonald. (both articles are inspired by the recent antics of the so-called Difa e Pakistan council, an army-sponsored show that is discussed with some trepidation by commentator Ejaz Haider) The military-bureaucratic elite’s sponsorship of violent Islamism to “counter India”, [...]
omar | February 8, 2012
I got this from Farooq Tariq (Pakistan labor party). I am posting it as a good intro to how the presence of jihadi militias serves to strengthen and multiply already existing barbaric notions. In this case, its an honor killing. In others, its blasphemy prosecutions and apostasy executions. None of these memes are new. And most [...]
Omar is a Pakistani-American with an interest in history. He also moderates the Asiapeace discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asiapeace/
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