By Mohammad Jamil Supreme Court is hearing the case of abduction of 11 persons; Raja Irshad Ahmed advocate is defending the agencies ISI and MI in the apex court. According to press reports, four of them have died in the custody of agencies, but Raja Irshad said that they died in Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, which is under administrative control of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government. "It has yet to be determ ...

By Professor Ali Sukhanver What is more important; food or security; health or defence; prosperity or safety; certainly a difficult question to be answered. Today one finds a hurricane of allegations, accusations ultimately forming the shape of suggestions that Pakistan needs not spend a huge amount on its army and the relevant security set-up. Various so-called western thinkers are doing all their best to ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Media is an instrument of war and peace, which is being exercised by every nations to mould the situations for the purpose of acquiring desired results through perception management,t, assist in revisiting and defining foreign policy, breaking status quo, making/changing the opinion of masses and protecting national and international interests. In regard to Pakistani media, an agony to th ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Media is an instrument of war and peace, which is being exercised by every nations to mould the situations for the purpose of acquiring desired results through perception management,t, assist in revisiting and defining foreign policy, breaking status quo, making/changing the opinion of masses and protecting national and international interests. In regard to Pakistani media, an agony to th ...

By Maqbool Malik ISLAMABAD - Most of the missing persons from Balochistan were found from either present in Ferrari camps of Kohlu, Dera Bugti and other parts of the province or had slipped into Fata and Afghanistan where they are believed to be hiding or got killed. Well-placed security officials told The Nation on Thursday that contrary to the propaganda of certain human rights organisations and sub-natio ...

By Zaheerul Hassan U.S. President Barack Obama stated in Capitol at the annual address to Congress that about 23 thousand U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of the summer of 2012, U.S. He said that ten thousand of our soldiers have already returned home. Another 23 000 troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of summer. Handover of power to Afghan forces will continue and we will dev ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although India and China agreed to avoid flare-ups along their border on January 17 this year, yet despite the 15 round of talks, the issue still remains unsettled owing to Indian obstinacy. Both the countries had fought a bloody war in 1962 over a disputed border. Indian hegemonic designs to dominate the region can well be judged from its plans to spend huge amounts on military build up a ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Police in China shot dead more protesters on January 24 and 25 this year in Tibetan-inhabited regions as unrest spread to some other areas. China's Sichuan province, which has big ethnic populations, has been rocked by violent clashes. The new spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhist monks and successor of Dalai Lama, Lobsang Sangay, head of the India-based Tibetan government-in-exile has cal ...