Pipeline diplomacy, and much more, is the need of the hour. The Investment Summit on Afghanistan, held in New Delhi, underscores two key aspects of India’s policy towards Afghanistan. First, there is an emphasis on economic engagement. Since the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001, India has sought to cultivate strong political ties with Kabul and to reach out to the people of Afghanistan. The principal ...

Impact on terrorism The arrest of Abu Jundal/Abu Hamza/Zabiuddin Ansari, a 26/11 participant of Indian origin; from Saudi Arabia on July 21 and arrest of another suspect (Fasih Mohammed) earlier is a major event in war against terrorism in India. The wide publicity this has received will have a salutary impact on would be terrorists in India. Bangladesh had cracked down on terrorists and other Gulf countrie ...

Dr Raja Muhammad Khan Contrary to the common misperception that Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a counter weight to the NATO, the sounding from the forum is that, it is a regional organisation having no military motives to pursue. Its charter highlights the principles of non-alliance and non-confrontation. China, the initiator of this organisation, still considers itself as a regional power. Bein ...

Mohammad Jamil Former Ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani's recent article carried by The Washington Post captioned 'My real crime: Standing up for US-Pakistan relations' is reflective of his craftiness and confirms his disloyalty to Pakistan. Though he claims to have rendered meritorious services, his performance as ambassador to the US has been a dismal failure, as the relations between Pakistan and the ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat At this sensitive moment, when Pak-US diplomats were negotiating a complex issue of restoring the NATO supply routes across Pakistan to Afghanistan in wake of the heightening political noise inside the country, US accelerated CIA-operated drone attacks, killing more than 50 people in [caption id="attachment_1858" align="alignright" width="253"] drone attack[/caption] North Waziristan. ...

Uri Avnery For decades, my friends and I have warned that if we dither in making peace, the nature of the conflict will change. I myself have written dozens of times that if our conflict is transformed from a national to a religious struggle, everything will change for the worse. The Zionist-Arab struggle started as a clash between two great national movements, which were born more or less at the same time ...

 M. Zaidi OVER the years, studies have suggested that an extensive military response to terrorism may temporarily increase terrorist activity rather than cause it to decrease permanently. Walter Enders and Todd Sandler in the American Political Science Review (‘The Effectiveness of Anti-Terrorism Policies: A VAR-Intervention Analysis’) did a serial time review of US military measures against Libya. They fou ...

Dr Raja Muhammad Khan The prominent Pakistani human rights activist and former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ms Asma Jehangir has accused ISI and Pakistan Army for an alleged planning to get her killed by making use of Jihadi elements, operating in the country. She revealed that the information of this planning reached to her through highly reliable sources. During a private televisi ...