Year: 2009

Patterns of and dealing with insurgencies

A quick look at global insurgencies: One of the major questions facing Pakistan, and intriguing the world, is whether it will be able to overcome the Al-Qaeda-led insurgency...

The Kerry-Lugar Bill and Pakistan

Aid with strings? Speaking to reporters at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh on September 27, 2009, President Barack Obama declared the world interest in Pakistan success. The US$1.5...

US Contractors: Not so-noble in Afghanistan

Perverts contracted? As the US and British forces battle the hardened Taliban militants and the politico-military surge continues, an independent watchdog group, the Project on...

TESTIMONIALS

I am also a member of National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting. Recently, we held a meeting with the Director General of Radio Pakistan and we told them to initiate such local programs (like Constituency Hour) in regional languages to educate and inform people. Even Indian Radio can be heard in FATA which is being used for propaganda purposes and must be closed. Therefore, we should launch some standard and quality programs like CRSS that will change the taste of the listeners.

Soniya Shams

Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar