Category: Travel
“My Father Wasn’t a Terrorist” – First Ever Eyewitness Accounts of 2 U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan
Skip to the eyewitness accounts here. On 14th December 2013, a U.S. drone missile struck a fishing boat on the Kabul River in the Loi Shalman area of Pakistan’s Khyber tribal area. The news was broken that a U.S. Predator attack had killed five ‘suspected militants’. A safe phrasing that gave the U.S. plausible deniability…
Travel: Peshawar (Oct ’23), Former Stronghold of Taliban
Travel Advisory: Frequent terror attacks. Do not go West of Jamrud. Bearded gunmen, AK47s, and blue burqa-wearing women in a dusty, mountaineous backdrop. Add in a bunch of old Toyotas too. That is the ‘image’ of how people around the world see Peshawar, from the old days of Soviet occupation in Afghanistan to Taliban against…