Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan- Chief of Pakistani- Pashtun Movement in Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud has blamed the controversial American private firm Blackwater [Xe Services] for the bomb blast ...

LAST evening while having dinner together, when one of my British colleague, who is also engaged with a famous media group in London and actively ...

FEW years ago I asked Shoib Shuddle former of Director General of Intelligence Bureau and Inspector General Police at a reception in London, ‘what is ...

PROBABLY, that could be the problem of all exiled or self-exiled political leaders because somehow they have to be in the news to keep themselves ...

EARLIER, we had discussed as why religious forces lost ground in Pakistan in last five decades - how and where? Here we will analyse as ...

PAKISTANI citizens, in or out of the country, as a nation, are quite religious (probably conservative) in all aspects of life. However, failure of religious ...

AS AFP tells us, the Institute for Science and International Security just published a report on Pakistan’s nuclear program that seems designed to pour gasoline ...

IT’S extremely shameful to see the military operation in Malakand, so helplessly, where innocent men, women and children are killed inhumanly and millions are displaced ...

IN the era of global state terrorism targeting the Islamic nations, it is pathetic to observe that Islamic world, like the East, still looks to ...

PAKISTAN finally bowed to Washington's angry demands last week by unleashing its military against rebellious Pashtun tribesmen of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) -- collectively mislabelled ...

IN Pakistan, political slogans convey the facts of life and are sometimes revealing the hidden information of meaningful nature. After independence, number of political slogans ...

I HAVE written in one of my earlier write ups that the real objectives of USA to invade and occupy Afghanistan were not to punish ...

SWAT was selected by hostile foreign agencies for subversion for multiple reasons. It had already gone through a bout of armed resistance; the people had ...

IN light of the recent crisis in Swat, Buner and Dir it has been highlighted that the problem of militancy in Pakistan has political roots. ...

THE worldly French and British who are taught history and read books are looking with wry amusement and some pity on the Americans who are ...

PRIOR to Asif Ali Zardari's current visit to America, US President Barack Obama said "We want to respect their sovereignty, but we also recognize that we ...

THERE are many elements and factors making the situation worse for Pakistan especially in FATA and Swat divisions.   Double game ...

THE initial plan of occupying Afghanistan had been conceptualized by Clinton Administration in 1997. Final shape to this gory drama of blood, death and destruction ...

THE impact of the JF-17 thunder deployment can be heard far beyond Islamabad and Peshawar. Pakistan has now joined the ranks of the very few ...

A LOT of one-sided and baseless stories are being circulated against Taliban.  The  Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has also talked about the `mortal ...