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Posts Tagged ‘Pashtuns’

Why Taliban won’t take over Pakistan ?

June 13th 2009

In recent times, the world media has focused it’s view on Pakistan. Countless articles have cropped up in newspapers and magazines declaring Pakistan as the most dangerous place on Earth and warning that it’ll be taken over by the Taliban. The world watched Taliban forces come within 50-60 kms of the capital Islamabad. The Pakistani [...]

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The Hawk in the Sky

June 12th 2009

In the lands of the Pashtuns, there is an old saying –
The eyes of the dove are lovely but it’s the hawk with it’s talons that rules the sky…
It is quite ironic that this age old Pashtun saying be used to describe their present nemesis – United States of America. But, such are the [...]

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