RACISM & NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS | NEWS/COMMENTARY


Pakistan’s War on Taliban and America’s Af-Pak Gameplan | Tapas Ranjan Saha

* * * * *

June 2009

Source: Liberation

Even as the US military offensive intensifies in Afghanistan, a parallel offensive by the Pakistani Army, clearly under US pressure, in the country’s autonomous region of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is underway. Estimates suggest that over 10 lakh civilians are being forced to flee the Swat Valley, one of the major theatres of the war, in what is being called the biggest displacement of people since the Partition (1947). While US air strikes recently massacred 150 civilians, mostly women and children, in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s military strikes are said to have killed hundreds of (more…)

Comments Off



Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.