National unity foremost

No country can be at ease with itself when hundreds of thousands of its citizens are displaced from their homes and are placed in refugee camps. Estimates put the figure at around 1.5 million. Housed in ill-managed refugee camps these Pakistanis, all of whom happen to be Pakhtuns, face a bleak future for months, and

Pakhtuns want peace

These days Pakhtun women and elderly men carrying heavy loads on their backs and the beautiful bewildered children of the Pakhtuns looking into the prying eye of television cameras leaving their mud huts behind while fleeing violence-stricken areas is a common sight on our television screens. The forlorn look on the face of a child

Security Situation – PK Politics

NOTE: The following media is in the Urdu language and NOT in English. Former DG IB (Director General Intelligence Bureau) Masood Sharif Khan Khattak shares his views regarding the current security situation in Pakistan with PKPolitics. The questions were based on several concerns raised recently by members in the comments on PKPolitics and we will

Faltering US strategy Part II

The new US policymakers led by President Obama must now shelve the messy canvas that was left for them by George W Bush. That canvas is in shreds and beyond repair. In order to redeem the image of the great American nation in the eyes of the world the Obama’s administration will have to carve

Faltering US strategy Part I

The American drone attacks and other ill-advised offensive policies have acted as force multipliers for the Pakistani Taliban. But it must be said that Pakistan cannot put all the blame on the Americans because Pakistan itself has allowed the situation to get out of hand. Pakistan could have avoided being in the situation that it

Dire straits

Having started a few years ago the ring of the alarm bells for Pakistan has been getting louder by the day but it does not seem to have reached a pitch that is loud enough to penetrate the well-padded eardrums of the Pakistani nation. The country stands devastated and is being ruthlessly ravaged. Yet, complacency

ABN Chicago show with Masood Sharif Khan Khattak

NOTE: The following media is in the Urdu language and NOT in English. ABN Exclusive Presentation : Interview with Masood Sharif Khan Khattak, former VP Pakistan Peoples Party, Ex-DG Intelligence Branch. He was on our show to discuss the recent political turmoil that Pakistan is facing. [ca_audio url=”https://www.sharifpost.com/Audio/misc/ABN_Chicago_2009_04_05.mp3″ width=”500″ height=”27″ css_class=”codeart-google-mp3-player”] http://abnchicago.org/2009/04/05/uncategorized/452009-abn-show-with-masood-sharif-khan-khattak/ Usually your college

Obama’s policy review

In his speech President Obama said: “The situation is increasingly perilous. It’s been more than seven years since the Taliban was removed from power, yet war rages on, and insurgents control parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.” What Obama said is obviously a matter of concern for Pakistan and Afghanistan because these two countries have literally

Explosive silence

Pakistan’s manipulative executive, legislature and judiciary have been oppressive due to which the country is possessed by an explosive silence. Unless that silence is gone completely the status quo will remain. Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave a voice to the poorest Pakistani. Then the manipulative State and its judiciary, puppets in the hands of Zia-ul-Haq,