Musings of a modern guy

Okay, Talibanistan is not a new state. It is actually the wilder parts of Pakistan, the areas bordering Afghanistan where the authority of the Pakistani State simply does not run. And this is a very simplistic assumption. Read the whole article at Time.
What does this actually mean? It means that Pakistan is in an unenviable […]

It seems that the hardliners in Iran are currently upping the stakes in its confrontation with the international community. After being slapped with a slightly more restrictive set of sanctions, the Iranians took a major escalation when they captured 15 British sailors at gunpoint, claiming that they had entered Iranian territorial waters.
At a point of […]

Iran is slowly and steadily reaching the status of a pariah in the international community. Already, it had its tentacles in a wide span of terror, from neighbouring Iraq to as far away as Lebanon and Palestine. And there is not much of opposition to its policies in these areas other than from Israel, and […]

In a tweak of US policy, the US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, stated in a press conference that force (=The US Military presence in Iraq) is not enough to defeat the insurgency in Iraq. This is an evolution of the policy in Iraq from its earlier approach where the official statement was […]

It finally had to happen. Pakistan has remained the frontline state in the fight against terrorism, given that a significant portion of the terrorist conspiracies around the world originate in Pakistan. It remains speculation (firm speculation) that a large number of the Al-Qaeda and Taleban militants find shelter and provisions in the wild areas of […]