[caption id="attachment_6418" align="alignright" width="411"] A Russian soldier in Chechnya, November 1999 (Courtesy Reuters)[/caption] Mistaking Syria for Chechnya. Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration’s “reset” with Russia than the crisis in Syria. For more than a year, the United States has tried, and failed, to work with Russia to find a solution to end the violence. Mosco ...

By PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER Just a few days back, I was really stunned rather shocked when I overheard someone at a roadside restaurant convincing vehemently his fellows that the army would never let Nawaz League wins with simple majority. I stopped there and asked the person why he thought so. He simply said he got the impression through media. I could comment nothing. Do we really enjoy being in a state of ...

 Asif Haroon Raja The freedom struggle which started against the Dogra rule before Partition is continuing unabatedly because of illegal occupation of two-thirds Kashmir by Indian security forces in October 1947. The Kashmiris are fighting for their freedom in a bid to complete the unfinished work of the Partition of India. Some people call it a battle for the conception of another Pakistan in the womb of I ...

Salman Khan, who returned from The US recently, went straight to actor Sanjay Dutt’s Pali Hills residence in Mumbai to give moral support to the former, who has been sentenced to five years in jail in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts, that claimed 257 lives. Salman visited the US for a medical review on his nerve disorder – trigeminal neuralgia. Khan himself is in deep trouble following the 1998 black ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During the period of nature, law of jungle was order of the day, as the powerful could kill the weak mercilessly. In the modern era, India has been following the similar law of jungle in its refined form by employing barbaric tactics in the Indian held Kashmir in order to suppress the war of liberation which continues by the Kahsmiris who are demanding their genuine right of self-determina ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated outfits like Lashkar-e-Janghvi conducted terror-activities such as suicide attacks, ruthless beheadings of tribesmen, assaults on security personnel and prominent figures including Shias, Ahmadis, Sufis, Christians and Sikhs. Besides blowing children schools, while attacking the female teachers in ord ...

By Caitlin Dewey The team at bit.ly, a popular link-tracking service, has come out with an interesting new analysis on how people use social media around the world. To make the report, bit.ly tracked clicks on its links from 220 countries over the course of 12 months. (To give you an idea of how many clicks that is, the site has logged more than 100 billion since January 2011.) Bit.ly then analyzed which so ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Uno upheld Pakistan stance and  rejected an Indian argument  of diminishing  the role of United Nations Military Observers Group in India Pakistan (UNMOGIP),   ceasefire along the Line of Control in Indian occupied Kashmir, has been overtaken by the 1972 bilateral Simla agreement, Pakistan  Ambassador Masood Khan also confirmed that “No bilateral agreement between India and Pakistan has o ...