Whatever Happened to Al Qaeda? Published May 5th, 2021 - 10:59 GMT
Osama bin Laden (Getty/AFP File Photo)
The terrorist organisation that changed the trajectory of global politics through its spectacular attack on September 11, 2001 has survived, but just.
A decade has passed since Al Qaeda s founder Osama bin Laden was killed in an American raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan. In spring 2011, with the charismatic bin Laden gone and Al Qaeda’s ambitions for regional upheaval seemingly preempted by widespread revolts across the Middle East, optimistic predictions abounded that Al Qaeda stood to lose.
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Opinion
May 4, 2021
Some of the more effusive opponents of the current regime are prone to exaggeration. A most amusing bit of hyperventilation is when some claim with great confidence that the current era is worse than the Gen Ziaul Haq dictatorship.
This is pure nonsense, but not because the protagonists of the current scenario are necessarily trying for things to be any better than the darkness of the 1980s. The comparison with the 1980s is nonsense because turning down the volume of the national discourse in Gen Zia’s era was just so much easier than it is today. In an era of a seemingly unlimited number of newspapers, television channels, social media feeds and angry, underserved citizens, the feeble attempts to ‘manage’ the national discourse only expose the limited imaginations of the protagonists of this unique time in Pakistan’s political history.
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Islamabad [Pakistan], February 26 (ANI): Farhan Virk, a Pakistani state-sponsored notorious digital commander who used Twittersphere with hashtags to propagate Islamabad s agenda, particularly against India was revealed, reported Al Jazeera.
Virk is a household name in Pakistan. He commands a Twitter army of more than 1,000 volunteers dedicated to spreading hyper-nationalist propaganda.
During the time of escalated tensions between India-Pakistan, Virk s Twitter campaigns aimed at discrediting India s accusation on Pakistan.
He claims that he can make any hashtag trend nationally. Virk commands over Twitter handle Team Imran Khan . When India-Pakistan tensions flare, Virk mounts an online attack with his lies through Twitter hashtags, reported Al Jazeera.
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