Posts Tagged ‘terror’

Defining Terrorism

A couple of years ago, I came across this interesting paper titled “Defining Terrorism: Philosophy of the Bomb, Propaganda by Deed and Change Through Fear and Violence“. In those days, Afghanistan and Iraq were still the countries with the most terrorist attacks and casualties, and we had not yet reached the current weekly terrorist attack […]

The Answer is 200 Million Kilograms

Since we usually have a bomb blast or two every other week in one of the major cities of Pakistan, and as there is nothing happening right now to hope for things to change in the near future, so I think that it is about time that we started some research on how to cope […]

On the Turning Away

This song came up on my playlist just as I published the previous post, so I had to share it. Consider spending six minutes of your life listening to Pink Floyd. I tried looking for a ‘moderate’ flavored documentary, but couldn’t find any good video that didn’t mention the US of A. Warning: it contains […]

FBI is Confused About Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

While a tiny percentage of our Pakistani population is protesting for fair treatment to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, it looks like the US FBI is as confused as we are about the truth regarding her case. The official FBI page on one of the most wanted women in the world has her picture with the caption […]

Arthur C. Clarke, Pakistan, Terror and Science Fiction

I started reading Arthur C. Clarke's novel Time's Eye the day before he died. The novel is set in the NWFP, and it is a world where Lahore has been blown up by a nuclear bomb (ouch!). Here's a page from the novel's beginning that reminded me of the recent US missile strikes inside Pakistan: […]