United States is continuing its missile attacks into Pakistan’s tribal area bordering Afghanistan even after Barack Obama has swarn in as US new president.  The latest attack on Friday 23, 2009 killed 22 people in different incidents of ‘suspected’ US missile strikes by drones in northwest tribal area of Pakistan.
More than 30 of such attacks by unmanned US planes have taken place in tribal areas since August 2008.
Pakistani leaders complain publicly that the stepped-up missile strikes  violate the country’s sovereignty and undermine the government’s own efforts to tackle rising extremists violence in …

Indian Prime minister is coming out of his shell accused involvement of Pakistani agencies in the Mumbai attacks last year. The Indian official stated yesterday that there is no evidence of involvement of ISI in the attacks. However,  Mr. Singh has said while speaking at a conference, ”There is enough evidence to show that, given the sophistication and military precision of the attack, it must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan”.  If there is enough evidence then why do not provide it and just keep on playing blame …

Pakistan has launched offensive against millitants in Khyber pass which is alos used to ferry supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan. In recent months, the road through the Khyber Pass in northwest Pakistan has come under increased attacks by militants trying to squeeze western forces fighting a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.
About 75 per cent of the fuel, food and other logistical goods for Western soldiers in landlocked Afghanistan are delivered through the winding, mountainous route in Pakistan via the port of Karachi.
The road has been temporarily closed to traffic at …

The Monster in the Mirror
Arundhati Roy
How should those of us whose hearts have been sickened by the knowledge of all of this view the Mumbai attacks, and what are we to do about them?
There are those who point out that U.S. strategy has been successful inasmuch as the United States has not suffered a major attack on its home ground since 9/11. However, some would say that what America is suffering now is far worse.
If the idea behind the 9/11 terror attacks was to goad America into showing its true …

A Shadowy History of Suspicious Terror Attacks
Arundhati Roy
Though one chapter of horror in Mumbai has ended, another might have just begun. Day after day, a powerful, vociferous section of the Indian elite, goaded by marauding TV anchors who make Fox News look almost radical and left-wing, have taken to mindlessly attacking politicians, all politicians, glorifying the police and the army, and virtually asking for a police state.
It isn’t surprising that those who have grown plump on the pickings of democracy (such as it is) should now be calling for a …

Releasing Frankensteins
Arundhati Roy
Thanks largely to the part it was forced to play as America’s ally, first in its war in support of the Afghan Islamists and then in its war against them, Pakistan, whose territory is reeling under these contradictions, is careening toward civil war.
As recruiting agents for America’s jihad against the Soviet Union, it was the job of the Pakistani Army and the ISI to nurture and channel funds to Islamic fundamentalist organizations. Having wired up these Frankensteins and released them into the world, the U.S. expected it could …

It is the third part of article by Arundhati Roy titled Monster in the Mirror. The second part is entitled Terrorism and the Need for Context.
 A Close Embrace of Hatred, Terrifying Familiarity, and Love
by Arundhati Roy
On this nuclear subcontinent, that context is Partition. The Radcliffe Line, which separated India and Pakistan and tore through states, districts, villages, fields, communities, water systems, homes, and families, was drawn virtually overnight. It was Britain’s final, parting kick to us.
Partition triggered the massacre of more than a million people and the largest migration …

It is the Part 2 of the article “Monster in the Mirror” written by Arundahti Roy.
Terrorism and the Need for Context
Arundhati Roy
There is a fierce, unforgiving fault line that runs through the contemporary discourse on terrorism. On one side (let’s call it Side A) are those who see terrorism, especially “Islamist” terrorism, as a hateful, insane scourge that spins on its own axis, in its own orbit, and has nothing to do with the world around it, nothing to do with history, geography, or economics. Therefore, Side A says, to …

9 Is Not 11
(And November Isn’t September)
By Arundhati Roy
 
We’ve forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us that we were watching “India’s 9/11.” And like actors in a Bollywood rip-off of an old Hollywood film, we’re expected to play our parts and say our lines, even though we know it’s all been said and done before.
As tension in the region builds, U.S. Senator John McCain has warned Pakistan that, if it didn’t act fast …

On this day (December 25), each year, the man who founded Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is paid tribute to – in special television programmes, newspaper supplements, in articles and in editorials such as this one. But it is unfortunate that it is, essentially, on just one day of the year that thoughts turn to the Quaid-e-Azam. Though, no doubt, as a sensitive, honest and moderate man, Jinnah would have been appalled to see the state of the country he created, there is much that can be done to better its …