Posted by Faheem Belharvi In a press release issued in November 2012, the United Nations Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) revealed that some 3.7 million Afghan refugees have returned home through UNHCR’s largest voluntary repatriation programme since 2002, while around 1.66 million registered Afghan refugees still remain in Pakistan. According to a survey conducted by UNHCR public information unit 1.65 milli ...

Posted by John Petrias HAMID MIR, a prominent journalist and TV anchor of widely seen ‘Capital Talk’ show, sustained an assassination attempt last month when police defused a bomb planted under his car in Islamabad. The device in a metal box (half a kilo of explosives fitted with detonator) was found stuck under the front passenger seat of Hamid Mir’s car. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsan ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Indian government went into depression state when U.S. government has informed a New York court that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and its former chiefs “enjoy immunity” in the case filed by   relatives of Mumbai attacks victims and asked Pakistan to dismantle LeT. Reportedly, Indian government and RAW has overtly and covertly provided the funds for the trial.  Indian supported th ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Thursday, December 20, 2012 - The Indian policy makers finally, on 11 May 1998, lifted the veil from the true face of the Buddha which had apparently smiled “peacefully” on 18 may 1974 in Pokhran. Pakistan was quick to display its tit for tat reaction a few days later. Although the 1998 testing did give India the status of defecto Nuclear weapon status, yet it also neutralized Indi ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Thursday, December 20, 2012 - Reko Diq, a small town in the North-West of Chagai District, is now identified for its large copper and gold reserves in raw form. This remote area of Pakistan is sparsely populated in Baluchistan. It has one of the largest undeveloped copper and gold mining deposits, worth billions of dollars, in the world. This natural treasure lies below the sand. T ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Tuesday marked yet another day of violence in Pakistan’s north-west. After the audacious attack on the PAF base in Peshawar on Saturday and the shoot-out in a nearby village with some of the fugitive attackers the following day, the deadly car bombing in Jamrud on Monday, and yesterday’s grenade attack on an army recruiting centre in Nowshera district, the area has suffered from an ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi “Most economies hit by the Arab Spring uprisings will recover only slowly next year as they grapple with high inflation and rising unemployment due to poor global conditions, the International Monetary Fund predicted in a report on Sunday”. In its twice-yearly outlook for the Middle East and North Africa, the global lender said a partial return of political stability could permit s ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is an unfortunate country whose destiny is intertwined with treacherous India in the east which lets go no opportunity to harm Pakistan, and Afghanistan on its northwest which is wild and unreliable.  Afghanistan prefers Hindu India over Muslim Pakistan in spite of the fact that it doesn’t share border with India and is not in sync ideologically.  Except for Taliban regime from 199 ...