Iran on Tuesday hanged a man convicted of killing a nuclear scientist in 2010 and for spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, state media reported. Majid Jamali Fashi was executed at Tehran's Evin Prison, the IRNA news agency reported. The Iranian state prosecutor says he confessed to assassinating Massoud Ali-Mohammadi. Ali- Mohammadi was killed by an explosion outside his Tehran home in January 20 ...

by Zaheerul Hassan Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has been invited to attend a Chicago conferee. According to President’s spokesman Sectary General of Nato has called President Zardari on Phone and officially invited him for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato). The invitation comes amid speculations that Pakistan is all set to re-open its ground routes for Nato supplies, which it closed after a ...

  Sajjad Shaukat Although in the past few years, the United States has been following an elusive policy towards Pakistan, yet it has intensified after May 2, last year when US killed Osama Bin Laden in a covert operation. In these terms, clear-cut paradoxes could be noted in the statements of American high officials. During her visit to India, while pampering New Delhi, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pak-US Relations strained in the backdrop of Raymond Davis incident. After his release on 16 March 2011, CIA itched to teach a lesson to the leaderships of Pak Army and ISI that had shown defiance and created impediments in its way. 2 May stealth operation was launched to degrade premier institutions of Pakistan and to earn brownie points for Obama and for the US military. The people of Pak ...

Sumaira Nasir Durrani Demilitarization from Siachen sector seems a bit sentimental statement. Its not the first time when Army has lost its Tigers for the sake of their mother land. This is a tradition of Army to be a Ghazi or a Shaheed. A person joins armed force with an aim of Shahadat. These chosen men are born and trained for "do or die". Now-a-days incident in Giyari sector Siachen is under discussion. ...

Dr Maqsudul Hasan Nuri & Dr Noor ul Haq   The resolution of Rohrabacher referred to the Committee of US Foreign Affairs in February last is misleading as it is based on incorrect facts. It says that "the Baloch Khanate of Kalat was founded which functioned as an independent, sovereign country." The history of the rulers of Kalat begins with Mir Ahmad with approximate date of accession being 1666-7 ...

Sayed G B Shah Bokhari In his three-part article in The News, titled, ‘The real Balochistan,’ former senator Sana Baloch has mentioned the backwardness and deprivation of the Baloch people. This is looking at the problem in isolation, ignoring the reality that most other parts of the country are also backward and deprived. If Balochistan is a virtual prison because of “thousands of check-posts dotting the p ...