Showing posts with label North-West Frontier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North-West Frontier. Show all posts

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Pakistan's Navy HQ Tagged by Suicide Bomber

here

Surprising last paragraph, added it seems as an afterthought:

"On Tuesday, a provincial politician was killed in a suicide attack in the Swat valley as the army continued its offensive against the Taliban."

This makes me wonder if the Taliban is finally starting to begin to target local "collaborators" instead of limiting themselves to attacking Punjabi-dominated cabals within the Pakistani government.

More about the murdered politician here

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Pakistani Army Storms its 'Pindi HQ

A lot of my family, on my mother's side, is involved in the Indian military in some capacity, in both administrative sectors and deployable sectors. Naturally, I'm biased. Regardless, this is terrifying. Indian media, of course, reports stories of how Pakistan is slipping and falling frequently, but the volume of stories making its way into the North Atlantic media is a little stunning. It's eerie how the government's collapse is closely  mirroring that which was predicted for it shortly after partition. Anyway.

BBC Story Here