Why are the Hazaras being killed in Balochistan, Pakistan?

Akram Gizabi – April 21, 2012 | There is a dramatic increase in the senseless and cowardly attacks on Hazara civilians in Quetta, Pakistan. People are being targeted for no apparent reasons.  The attacks are indiscriminate and random and the victims are exclusively Hazaras. The latest attack took the lives of eight people who were […]

Rapprochement with the Taliban: Is it Tenable?

Akram Gizabi – Feb 23, 2012 | Are the Taliban a terrorist group? Is the country that harbors and nurtures them on the US list of State Sponsors of Terrorism? The answers to both of these questions are obvious and need not require any elaboration. What does however necessitate scrutiny and expansion is why the Obama […]

The Taliban and moderation: a contradiction in terms

Akram Gizabi – Nov 25, 2001 | Recently, there have been talks of including “moderate Taliban” in the future government of Afghanistan. This is a notion raised by Pakistan during the visit of Secretary of State Collin Powell to Islamabad. Let’s examine this notion as to who these Taliban could be: Who among the Taliban […]