Exclusive Interview of Masood Sharif Khan Khattak On GEO TV’s Program JIRGA – 10th Sept 2009

NOTE: The following media is in the Urdu language and NOT in English. The month of August 2009 witnessed a dubious character from the past who had worked in the intelligence apparatus of Pakistan making, on every TV Channel of Pakistan, so-called and unwarranted revelations galore about important political and other events of the eighties

A civil-military equation

Musharraf’s nine years of misrule have left Pakistan comparable to a ship which finds itself in stormy waters with its engines seized, the rudder broken and the compass out of order. The magnificent two-year-long relentless struggle by the lawyers and the civil society against a well entrenched dictator eventually, became the basis for Musharraf’s departure

Dawn News TV Investigative Report “Return of the Jackals” – 4th Sept 2009

Dawn News TV Investigative Report “Return of the Jackals” – a report on the Masood Sharif Khan Khattak’s Midnight Jackals operation that lead to the successful defeat of a coup attempt on an elected Pakistan parliament. Part One [FLOWPLAYER=https://www.sharifpost.com/Video/2009_09_04_Dawn_News_Return_of_the_Jackals_Part1.flv,425,344] Part Two [FLOWPLAYER=https://www.sharifpost.com/Video/2009_09_04_Dawn_News_Return_of_the_Jackals_Part2.flv,425,344] Part Three [FLOWPLAYER=https://www.sharifpost.com/Video/2009_09_04_Dawn_News_Return_of_the_Jackals_Part3.flv,425,344] This approach can be http://phonetrackingapps.com used to sort out or

Civil society in politics

Even after 62 years of independence, Pakistan is still groping in the dark. One’s heart bleeds for Pakistan when one looks at over six decades of exploitation by the ruling class. The economy is as bad as it can get. The finance wizards of the government can come up with whatever figures that they like

To the future

Is it difficult to foresee where we are heading when we see the teeming millions lined up for hours behind trucks carrying foodstuff? Is it difficult to imagine what is brewing when we see our women being spanked with leather shoes and batons by the police and other government minions, when the governor of Punjab

Pakhtun political reorientation

For so many decades Pakhtun politics has been made to revolve around two issues namely Kalabagh Dam and the renaming of NWFP as Pakhtunkhwa. The Pakhtuns now need to understand that a progressive future for the NWFP does not depend upon its name or on whether the Kalabagh Dam is constructed or not. Moreover, NWFP

The Pakhtun dilemma

The strategic conflict between Russia and the British Empire for the supremacy over Central Asia came to be known as the Great Game. The 1813 Russo-Persian Treaty triggered the Great Game, which ended in 1907 through the Anglo-Russian Convention. During the Great Game the Pakhtuns found themselves sandwiched between the two superpowers of that time

Pakistani Taliban Leader Believed Dead – NPR

[ca_audio url=”https://www.sharifpost.com/Audio/NPR/2009_08_07_All_Things_Considered.mp3″ width=”500″ height=”27″ css_class=”codeart-google-mp3-player”] Reports say Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, has been killed in a U.S. drone attack. The Pakistani foreign minister, intelligence sources and some members of the Taliban say Mehsud died when an unmanned U.S. aircraft destroyed his father-in-law’s house Wednesday. But no one has been able

On our own feet

The writing is on the wall and the bell now tolls louder by the day. Hopelessness overshadows hope. Despondency is on the increase. Whenever any nation is gripped by the kind of gloom that exists in Pakistan these days it is time to think of what needs to be done to get out of the