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By Fatima Rizvi
Mrs. Rizvi is a Pakistani commentator based in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh.

Everyone in Washington and New Delhi mentions ISI when talking about terrorism. Really? What about the Israeli Mossad, the Indian RAW, and the American CIA? Who had links with Al-Qaeda all along? Certainly not the ISI. The fact is that ISI never had [...]

By ZAID HAMID
This column is extracted from a situation report released by BRASSTACKS, a security and defense analysis think tank based in Islamabad. Mr. Zaid Hamid is its Founding Consultant.

It was President Musharraf who was most annoyed over PPP decision to weaken ISI. It was after this disagreement with the U.S. that it was [...]

By Laila Sohail
Laila is a young Pakistani woman.

Musharraf’s biggest mistake is that he tried to be a democratic leader while he could have easily been an authoritative one. What was required perhaps was that he ruled this country like a true dictator, changing the political system and snubbing all opposition. He joined a political party [...]

By SHIREEN MAZARI
The writer is a defense analyst.
Rehman Malik’s private security firm has close ties to the British intelligence. Zardari’s government has cut funding for our nuclear and missile research and recruitment, which means bright young Pakistanis can’t be hired anymore. Pakistanis should know that this elected government is surrendering on our nuclear program, is surrendering [...]

By AHMED QURAISHI
he Bush administration is playing a dangerous game by encouraging the elected government in Pakistan to pick an unnecessary confrontation with the country’s powerful military. And by being willing to play along, the government of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is failing the first test of any government: to passionately defend Pakistan’s interest [...]

By Fasi Zaka:
Mr. Fasi Zaka is a Rhodes Scholar and Professor and Old Edwardian. He is the host of News, Views and Confused. This terse verses was printed in  The News and goes  very fine with imagery below.

The leader of the PML-N tries his hand at penning poetry once again by explaining his plans for [...]

By Kamran Khan
Kamran Khan works for The News International & GEO News. This report was published by The News International.

Two senior U.S. military officials who visited Pakistan last month faced tense moments when President Musharraf, army chief Gen. Kayani and the ISI chief confronted them with evidence that showed Washington supporting separatist, sectarian and [...]

By: Editor@Pak1stanfirst.com
We are receiving news from all over Pakistan which are not staisfactory at all. We are not going to provide our analysis this time just the news we are receiving from our sources.
Chief of Army staff Summons Core Commanders to GHQ, Rawalpindi:
An out of routine core commanders conference is called by the Chief of [...]

By Makhdoom Babar
The author is the Editor-in-Chief of Daily Mail, an Islamabad-based newspaper that also publishes an international edition from Beijing.

The question that arises here is this: Why has this anti-ISI campaign been launched all of sudden when the ISI is considered to be a major tool in crushing terrorism and extremism? The ISI [...]

By ZAID HAMID

This column is extracted from a situation report released by BRASSTACKS, a security and defense analysis think tank based in Islamabad. Mr. Zaid Hamid is its Founding Consultant.

‘Pakistan, for example, had no enemies in the Taliban or al Qaeda until (the Pakistani leader) made them such at our behest. Likewise, there could have [...]

By Ahmed Quraishi
In the 1970s, Pakistan’s ISI smuggled a nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, from Europe to Pakistan. A decade later, Israel’s Mossad kidnapped and smuggled a renegade Israeli scientist, Mordechai Vanunu, as he flew from London to Rome. Dr. Khan is a fallen hero. Vanunu was a traitor who exposed his country’s nuclear secrets.
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By AHMED QURAISHI
Pakistani government officials are investigating the possibility that today’s trail of seven bombings in Karachi was retaliation for the attack in Kabul around ten hours earlier that almost wiped out India’s embassy in the Afghan capital.
 
India suffered important casualties in Kabul today. According to one report, the dead include Brigadier R. Mehta, the [...]

By AHMED QURAISHI
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The operation on the outskirts of Peshawar notwithstanding, Pakistani military leadership should refrain henceforth from any operations in our tribal belt without the full endorsement of the government and the parliament. For the sake of our stability, this should be a shared responsibility. At worst, the elected government’s decision to abrogate this [...]