By Rida Zaheer Hnagu: Pakistan security forces have continued their operations against militants. The air crafts carried out shelling today  on a terrorists hideout in a village of  Tall, near Hangu. According to credible sources  during the said strikes six terrorists have been killed .The nation is appreciating security forces efforts of elimination of terrorism from the country. Yesterday while visiting ...

By Rida Zaheer PESHAWAR: According to Inter Services Public Relations Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif visited Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters here on Friday. During this visit, the chief   appreciated the sacrifices of the security forces said that the armed forces and said that Armed Forces are fully capable of tackling both internal and external threats.   The whole nation accepts the sa ...

By Shanoor Seervai People in Bangladesh are protesting against a new Bollywood action thriller that they say portrays their country’s 1971 struggle for independence from Pakistan wrongly. “Gunday,” which released in India on Feb. 14, depicts the bloody creation of Bangladesh as a 13-day battle between India and Pakistan beginning on Dec. 3, 1971. According to the protesters, the film does not address the pr ...

By Jack Serle and Alice K Ross Yemen’s president has said that the UK is a participant in a secret ‘joint operations control room’ in Yemen’s capital, from which individuals who are ‘going to be targeted’ are identified. President Abdel Rabbo Mansur al Hadi made the claim while speaking to Human Rights Watch (HRW) researchers about covert US drone operations in his country. The US, Yemen and Nato were also ...

By Paul Vallely The war in Syria began much earlier than is generally recognised. The conflict actually began in the year 632 with the death of the Prophet Mohamed. The same is true of the violence, tension or oppression currently gripping the Muslim world from Iraq and Iran, though Egypt, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A single problem lies behind all that friction and hostili ...

By Ramin Mostaghim and Patrick J. McDonnell A reformist-oriented daily Iranian newspaper has been shut down and its manager jailed after the publication was accused of insulting Islam, various media accounts reported Thursday. The incident raises questions about pledges to ease press restrictions from President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate who took office in August. The Aseman, or Sky newspaper, which was pro ...

 By Ahmad Khan and Beenish Altaf Strategic Vision Institute, Islamabad The very mention of the word nuclear more often than not invokes a sentiment of antagonism towards nuclear energy. Nuclear pessimists often associate this word with the mushroom cloud, the Three Mile Island incident, the Chernobyl incident, and the Fukushima disaster, among others. This pessimistic outlook often tries and succeeds in ove ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan Government suspended negotiations with Taliban when public pressures built up after repeated attacks of militants on security forces and the innocent people. According to the credible reports 308 civilians, 114 military soldiers including officers, 38 police persons  have been martyrdom and 1,264 (684 civilians, 531 military, 49 police) suffered with severe injuries due to terrorists act ...