Asif Haroon Raja India’s worst fears with regard to the situation in Afghanistan are in all likelihood coming true. The United States was India’s closest partner in Afghanistan venture and both had jointly worked up regional objectives for mutual benefits. This mutually beneficial partnership remained strong till as late as 2012 during which Indo-US, Indo-Afghan and Afghan-US strategic partnership agreement ...

AFP_DHAKA: The death toll from last week’s collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh passed 500 on Friday as the country’s prime minister said Western retailers had to share some of the blame for the tragedy. With bulldozers now clawing away at the mountain of rubble at the site of last Wednesday’s disaster, the number of bodies being recovered from the country’s deadliest industrial disaster has ...

ISLAMABAD: The legal fraternity on Friday announced to boycott court proceedings in lower court against murder of FIA prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar in Islamabad, FP News desk reported. Chaudhry Zulfiqar was prosecutor in Benazir Bhutto murder case. He was also the prosecutor investigating the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Unidentified bike riders opened fire on Zulfiqar’s car in G/9 sector when he left his home to ap ...

Iran is now viewed unfavorably in 14 out of 20 Arab and Muslim countries, according to a new poll by Zogby Research Services. The survey results show a growing antipathy towards Tehran. Majorities in all but four countries agree that Iran is contributing to sectarian division in the Arab world. Only majorities in Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Yemen think “Iran is working to promote peace and stability in the reg ...

By Elias Groll On Monday, the New York Times revealed that the CIA has been funneling tens of millions of dollars to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The cash payments – delivered to his office every month – arrived in suitcases, backpacks and plastic bags, and were meant to buy the mercurial leader’s loyalty. But according to the Times, the Langley-approved gravy train did more to fuel corruption in Afghanis ...

 by Zaheerul Hassan Rawalpindi : Director General of Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR) Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa stated on Thursday that at least 70,000 Armed forces personnel   would be deployed all over the countries.  Gen Asim Bajwa  made  it clear  during a press conference held at the Army’s  General Headquarters in Rawalpindi  that the military would ensure security on the polling day. A sec ...

Asif Haroon Raja Sudden emergence of Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007 under unknown Baitullah Mehsud (deceased) from nowhere was in reaction to Gen Musharraf’s pro-US policies and its continued vendetta is because of the role of liberal parties pursuing Musharraf’s policies. The banned TTP is exploiting the disillusionment of the youth and frustration of the have-nots and has stepped up its ...

By M Khan Chishti The attacks of 9/11 caused immense fury in America. The wars of vengeance in Afghanistan and Iraq put deadly arsenal of American armed forces on full display. The country, which was loved for blue jean and popular culture, is now being hated for carpet bombing and human rights violation at Abu-gharib and Guantanamo jails. These wars not only victimized innocent people around the global but ...