PAKISTANI LEADERS AND TAKMEEL E PAKISTAN:

PKKH EXCLUSIVE: WHY THE CHIEF MATTERS


General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is a man who will leave his mark on not only Pakistan, but this region and perhaps the world as a whole. Known as a “quiet man” in military and diplomatic circles, no man has ever raised more curiosity than Pakistan’s current Chief of Army Staff – whom the Americans say they cannot ‘read’.
Time magazine ranked him 20th in the list of “Leaders & Revolutionaries” of the world in 2008 and 17th in the same list in 2009. He was also named in the Newsweek “Top 50 Global Elite” and the New Statesman “The 50 people who matter today” being placed on 20th and 24th in the lists respectively.
PKKH takes a candid look at the man behind the recent turn of events in the region, and discusses the extraordinary brilliance of our Commander in Chief since an early age. With exclusive never-seen-before photographs of General Kayani’s early military career.
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Light At The End Of The Afghan Tunnel?


Is it finally light at the end of the Afghan tunnel, or an oncoming express train? Total confusion erupted last week as the US, NATO, the UN and the Kabul government all issued differing views on new plans to end the nine year Afghan war by bombarding Taliban with tens of millions in cash instead of precision bombs.
One thing is clear: the US and its NATO allies are losing the war in Afghanistan in spite of their fearsome arsenal of high tech weapons and war chests of billions of dollars.
Lightly-armed Pashtun tribesmen are living up to their legendary reputation of making Afghanistan the graveyard of empires. [READ]
Wars sending U.S. into Ruin
U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America’s economic health. In fact, it’s another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug — debt. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itself into ruin by buying tanks. Washington’s deficit (the difference between spending and income from taxes) will reach a vertiginous $1.6 trillion US this year. [READ]
Pakistan Seeks Role In Afghan Endgame: Report


NEW YORK: In a departure from its previous reluctance to approach the Taliban, Pakistan has told the United States it wants a central role in resolving the Afghan war, the New York Times reported on Wednesday quoting American and Pakistani officials. [READ]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan has told the United States it wants a central role in resolving the Afghan war and has offered to mediate with Taliban factions who use its territory and have long served as its allies, American and Pakistani officials said. [READ]

A Challenging Doctrine

while Cold Start is a sound concept, though not original, the Indian war directors need to question the ability of their commanders at all levels to execute it efficiently and sustain the advantage gained from striking first. [READ]

Bharat Clueless in Afghanistan and confused about Pakistan

India that was expecting a polite and immediate ‘yes’ from Pakistan to its offer for foreign secretary-level talks once again finds itself on the wrong side of the fence. Not only did Pakistan take its time in reluctantly accepting the offer with several ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ for public consumption, it also gave clearance to the [organizations] to organise a string of anti-India meetings in Muzaffarabad, Islamabad and Lahore that were addressed by Jamaat ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed. [MORE]
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Haqqani In Capital After Aafia Case Flop
Pakistani Professors Must Stop Pakistan-Bashing
Foreign Office Counsels Caution On India’s Offer
Two Pakistani Officials Fired For Promoting Indian Propaganda
Why Pay Afghanistan When They Can Help This Girl?
Secular India?
India’s Economic Miracle
Naseem Hameed: Fastest Woman In South Asia 
MUST WATCH VIDEOS OF THE WEEKZaid Hamid
at Pearl Continental Lahore

Lecture at the FAMILYCON-2010, Hosted by the Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians - February 6th, 2010, at Pearl Continental LAHORE.
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Kashmir – Past, Present & Future with Mr Zaid Hamid.
Mr Zaid Hamid tells a brief history of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan and how it effected the relations between the two countries.
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Takmeel-e-Pakistan Movement’ is the struggle to make Pakistan the nation that was envisioned by Allama Iqbal and conceived by Quaid-e-Azam. Pakistan was supposed to be one of the greatest nations on earth, and a leader amongst comity of nations. This was the resolve of our founding fathers, and father of the nation Quaid-e-Azam.
We achieved the first part of Iqbal’s dream on August 14th 1947 by establishing Pakistan; however the full realization of this dream has now become our necessity. It’s the need of the hour because now it is time to bring the change this nation has been craving, and work towards the ‘completion’ of Pakistan – as Iqbal and Jinnah had envisioned it.

Our mission is to revive Allama Iqbal’s Ideology amongst the people of Pakistan. To wake them up and to join hands in reviving and implementing the original resolutions and nation building guidelines of Quaid-e-Azam, Allama Iqbal and other founding fathers. We need to revive the zeal and enthusiasm that was on display on the historic day of March 23rd 1940. We can do it again and Inshallah we will.

March 23rd 2010 – Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore – 70 years from the passing of Pakistan Resolution, the people of Pakistan have decided to recreate the same moment and to write their names in history by passing the ‘Takmeel-e-Pakistan’ resolution and reviving the true spirit of Pakistan’s creation; to carry it out its ‘takmeel’, or completion.

Pakistan needs us today. This soil has been enriched with the blood of those who laid down their lives for the defense of this nation. We will not let down this sacred soil. We will not go down, we must rise and Inshallah we will rise.
For more details, please email: labbaik@takmeel.pk


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