Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan has been continuously advocating peace talks with Taliban and insisting upon finding a political solution, but Kabul regime and Washington preferred brute force in Afghanistan. Pakistan was also advised to follow suit and pressured to launch another major operation in North Waziristan (NW) and eliminate safe havens of Haqqani network. Pakistan has all along helped Hamid Karzai regi ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat While taking suo motu notice of a private TV programme which did not point out other side and facts by raising the alleged land corruption of Rs. 40 billion in the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI), a three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry ordered on July 19, this year to freeze all the bank accounts of Defence ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 17th July 2013, Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan ordered the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) to deposit Rs. 2 Billion (within 48 hours) with the office of Supreme Court Registrar, or face freezing of all its accounts. All the stakeholders were shocked on court’s verdict while people whispered around that a grand design against DHA was in the offing as political elite and Judiciary desire ...

  Letter to Cerritos City Council Requests Removal of “Repugnant” Gandhi Statue     Gandhi was “morally odious” and sexually abused his grandnieces, claim South Asian Americans   Cerritos, CA, July 26, 2013 - A statue of Hindu religious icon Mohandas Gandhi has no place in a progressive society, claim a group of minorities of Indian origin in a letter to Cerritos City Council requesting permanent removal of ...

Srinagar, July 27: (GNS) Expressing shock over abduction and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by Village Defense Committee (VDC) members of Kishtwar, Hurriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani demanded immediate disarmament and dissolution of VDCs and severe punishment for those VDCs involved in the heinous crime. “The aim of these committees is nothing other than to suppress Muslim community in ...

  A MESSAGE TO MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS DO NOT EVER FORGET YOUR SIKH HISTORY FROM THE SIKH POINT OF VIEW  Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki)    Bibiji and Khalsa ji:    Waheguru ji ka Khalsa,  Waheguru ji ki Fateh!    The Guru Khalsa Panth alias the Sikhs' PUNJAB, Sikh Nation, which had been a 'Sovereign and Secular' of South Aisa, of a Sikh Monarch Ranjit Singh, 1799 to 14th March, 1849.    This 'Sovereign and S ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to ISPR press release a Pakistani soldier embraced Shahdat (martyred) and another seriously injured in "unprovoked" firing by Indian troops from across the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed region of Kashmir. The incident took place on Rawlakot’s Nezapir sector near the LoC at about 10:30 am on Saturday. Soldier Asim Iqbal was killed in the firing and soldier Naik Mohammad K ...

Since the beginning of 2011, Misbah-ul-Haq has scored 20 fifties in 62 innings, and has been a pillar of strength in an otherwise shaky batting line-up Misbah-ul-Haq hasn't yet scored an ODI century, but apart from that he has done pretty much everything as a middle-order batsman for Pakistan. The lack of a hundred has itself put him in the record books, as the scorer of the most runs without a century in o ...