Pakistan cricket team left for Sri Lanka via Dubai on late Sunday night, Geo news reported. The squad included Muhamamd Hafeez, Shahid Afridi, Umer Akmal, Ahmed Shahzad, Hammad Azam, Haris Sohail, Khalid Lateef, Muhammad Sami, Nasir Jamshed, Raza Hassan, Saeed Ajmal, Shakeel, Shoaib Malik, Tanveer Sohail, Yasir and Umer Gul. Pakistan will play five one-day, three Test and two T20 matches in Sri Lanka from J ...

England beat West Indies by nine wickets to win the second Test with more than a day to spare at Trent Bridge here on Monday and take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in this three-match series. Set 108 for victory on the fourth day, England finished on 111 for one. England captain Andrew Strauss, who made 141 in the first innings to follow his hundred in the five-wicket first Test win at Lord's, was out for 45 when ...

Dr Raja Muhammad Khan In 1948, while addressing Quetta Municipality, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah said that, "you know, I take special interest in Balochistan because, this province is my special responsibility, therefore I want that it should play its role in Pakistan affairs like other provinces." Unfortunately, this great leader died in the same year and his vision could not be implemented. Area wise ...

Muhammad Saleh Zaafir In a breakthrough development, Pakistan and United States have initiated negotiations on intricate bilateral issues, and Washington has designated Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides as its point-man for the talks while Federal Finance Minister Senator Dr Hafeez Shaikh will have interaction on behalf of Islamabad. Hafeez Shaikh and Thomas Nides have discussed course of action for th ...

Rustam Shah Mohmand Shakeel Afridi has only gone through a few months of incarceration. But “voices of dissent” have started creating ripples all over. Such is the overwhelming fear and awe regarding American might and the United States’ intrusive capability that questions are being raised about the timing of the order of conviction and the type of signals that it will convey to the West. As if the retreat ...

Air Cdre Khalid Iqbal (R) This day, fourteen year ago, emotionally charged voices of the team of nuclear scientists’ conducting the nuclear test in Chagi chanted ‘Naara-e- Takbeer, Allah-o- Akbar’. This was a declaration that hence forth Pakistan is a declared nuclear weapon capable state. Resource starved Pakistan had no ambition to go nuclear, but was compelled to do so. India exploded its first nuclear d ...

Ikram Ullah Khan Pakistan had its ambiguous but to an extent credible nuclear deterrence against India to counter New Delhi's conventional superiority even long before May 28, 1998. This ambiguous nuclear deterrence did work effectively to defuse past Indo-Pak, war like crises, notably Bras Tack Military Exercise 1987-88 and 199O Spring Crisis famously known as Zarb-e-Momin. Before May 1998 nuclear tests it ...

By Sajjad Shaukat    Political elite may follow timid policy, but it is not the job of statesmen to reflect such an ambiguous strategy. In these terms, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been acting upon an enigmatic approach. In this regard, during her recent visit to India, while speaking in Indian tune, Hillary Clinton allegedly that Pakistan had not taken enough action against Hafiz Saeed, Chief ...