| The United States has just invaded Cambodia. The name of Cambodia this time is Pakistan, but otherwise it’s the same story as in Indochina in 1970. |
| The killing of 11 Pakistani soldiers by US air strikes last week showed that the American-led war in Afghanistan is relentlessly spreading into Pakistan, one of America’s oldest, most faithful allies. |
| "Alternative media in the West is falling prey to the ISI propaganda to save Musharraf." |
| Benazir Bhutto had entered politics to ‘avenge’ her father’s hanging in April 1979 by Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistan’s third military dictator. Having twice avenged her father’s murder – by assuming the office of Pakistan’s prime minister in April 1988 and October 1993 – she has now paid with her life trying to reach that office a third time. |
| I wished Benazir a bon voyage just before she left Dubai for her historic return home, and cautioned her that my extensive reader mail from Pakistan was running very much against her because of the deal she had made with military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to allow her return. I reminded her of the old saying, "he who sups with the Devil had better use a very long spoon." |
| The legal implications of the ‘Protection of Women Bill’ which was recently passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan can only be known to the people who are well-versed with the intricacies of the legal system. But the picture being painted is that the bill is going to provide a remedy to those women who are facing severe oppression and hardships due to the Hudood Ordinance, and that it will also provide great relief to countless women. |
| Al-‘Allaamah Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: “Allaah sometimes gives the earth permission to breathe, which is when major earthquakes happen; this makes people feel scared, so they repent, give up sins, pray to Allaah and feel regret [for their sins]. |
| "Pakistan army, which the US, India and Israel feared as the only nuclear arms laced “Islamic fundamentalist-minded” army, is now ready to swim in the blood of its fellow Muslims."
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