As if the brazen and pitiless carnage of the Shias in Quetta and Karachi in the beginning of this year was not an apt enough reminder of the diabolic shadow of Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) looming large ...
India has made it manifest that it is not happy in the way the Sri Lankan government of President Mahindra Rajapaksa is treating the Tamil minority, following the defeat of one of the most virulent ...
Thirteen ‘Friends of Bangladesh’ were recently honoured in Dacca for raising their voice against the launch of military operations by Pakistan in March 71. An account published by one of ...
The filing of corruption charges against the ex-Indian Air Chief (2004-2007), Air Marshal Shasi Prakash Tyagi, in a mega defence scandal, has once again brought under sharp focus the endemic ...
The passing of Pakistan Resolution on March 23, 1940, at the Minto Park Lahore, for its impact and importance, remains a watershed in the struggle of Muslims in the subcontinent for a separate ...
In the recent international media propaganda Pakistan’s tribal areas has figured again as a global jihad hub, consisting of thousands of foreign fighters from diverse countries. The AFP ...
With the execution and burial of Afzal Guru inside Tihar Jail complex at New Delhi on February 9, 2013, the curtain has finally come down on the charade of attack on the Indian Parliament on December ...
The secession of East Pakistan in 1971, following a bitter civil war aided and abetted by an Indian aggression, undeniably, remains the most traumatic watermark of our national history. The birth of ...
The virtual evaporation of the dividends of an intricately built peace process in Kashmir with a small yet emotionally-laden skirmish on the Line of Control (LoC), following a well kept nine-year ...
As if on a cue, the routine of peaceful vigil on the Line of Control (LoC), separating the Indian and Pakistani forces in the disputed Kashmir region, has undergone a wakeup jolt without a warning. ...
The keen interest displayed and active participation of legislators across-the-aisle during the passage of the ‘Fair Trial Bill’ in the National Assembly is indicative of the relevance of ...
“Do you remember when they said there were 1,000 bodies and they had the graves and then we couldn’t find twenty?”– Henry KissingerTime is a great healer of psychological and ...
Just days before elections to the UN Human Rights Council were held, the US Ambassador, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, harangued Pakistan at a meeting of HRC’s Universal Period Review at Geneva by ...
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’s November 5 address to a gathering of officers in the GHQ, in which he raised issues that were having an impact on the professional efficiency and morale of the ...
“Let us take a pause and examine the two fundamental questions; one, are we promoting the rule of law and the constitution? Two, are we strengthening or weakening the ...
October 27, 1947 - the day when India landed its forces in Srinagar - veritably marks the birth of an unending tragedy that continues to bleed to this very day. The day marked the culmination of a ...
The postponement of President Valdimir Putin’s eagerly awaited visit to Pakistan has caused much disappointment to observers, who were attaching great hopes of reaching prominent benchmarks in ...
Two arguments made by the Indian Foreign Minister, S.M. Krishna, from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), leaves in doubt as to where the composite dialogue process (CDP) that ...
On the eve ofAugust 14, 2012, when the nation was celebrating the heroic defence ofPakistanin face of an Indian imposed war, it was rather unbelievable to see via media a blitz of uninformed ...
For a military commander, there is, perhaps, no better platform to share his wisdom, concerns and anguish than the podium of his alma mater, and no better audience to express his vision than the ...
The foiled terrorist attack on Kamra Aeronautical Complex, repulsed through a resolute and determined response by defenders of the base, two of whom sacrificed their lives during the episode, has ...
It has been long in coming, but the increasing frequency and viciousness of attacks launched by the TTP elements and the Afghan Taliban, across the Pak-Afghan borders into Pakistan, has reached a ...
The heart-wrenching photographs of dinghy borne Rohingya families begging for their survival from the maritime patrols of Bangladesh, to let them through and to safety of refugee camps are powerful ...
The brouhaha over the return of Surjeet Singh, on June 28 this year, has once again served to underscore the issue of spies being relentlessly pushed into Pakistan by the Indian agencies, through ...
n Momin IftikharEvery freedom struggle has a defining moment; a benchmark that ignites the powder keg of history and sets into motion the inexorable march of a people towards their destiny of ...
The recent arrest of Naamen Meziche, a Frenchman of Algerian descent who had deep-rooted links with Al-Qaeda leadership, by Pakistani agencies came as another blow to the dwindling hierarchy of the ...
“They seated themselves, engaged in aimless conversation and then dispersed.”A Persian quote describing the ambience of futile talks. If the peace process and the diplomatic ...
The release of the long overdue Memo Commission Report on June 12, coinciding with the appearance of Malik Riaz in the Supreme Court, whereby the tycoon claims to have injected over Rs 39 crore to ...
The event was so calamitous that even a distance of 28 years has not dulled the pain of Operation Blue Star; the storming of the Golden Temple at Amritsar on June 6, 1984. Like a lacerated wound, it ...
The Americans are masters of creating catchy acronyms and the latest one gaining global recognition is F3EA (Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit and Analyse), which is being heralded as a major tool in the US ...
Saturday, 25 May, 2013
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