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President Barack Obama stated in Capitol at the annual address to Congress that about 23 thousand U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of the summer of 2012, U.S. He said that ten thousand of our soldiers have already returned home.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 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Government is facing the issues of memo, poor governance, defying of rules and court orders, corruption, power, PIA, Railway and deteriorated relations with USA. Whereas opposition parties are busy in exploiting the said issues for political point scoring. Unfortunately, none of the political party is paying any heed to a very sensitive issue of Balochistan militancy. Rulers and oppositio ...

By Sajjad Shaukat It is in response to the article of Rabia Ahmed, published in 'Pakistan Today' on January 16, 2012 under the caption, Why this army? In her illogical criticism of Pakistan Army, Rabia Ahmed has also shown contradictory approach. At the same time, she has, in other words, realized that army should exist, but rejected its need. In this regard, in the article, while expressing views about 196 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to news reports The Bangladesh Army has foiled a coup plot by certain national serving and retired army officers to overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and have arrested two former officers. The "heinous conspiracy" was unearthed last month and two retired officers - Lt Col Ehsan Yousuf and Major Zakir - have been arrested while a serving officer Major Syed Mohammad Ziaul Huq ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Piteously, our selfish and myopic leaders played into the hands of Pakistan's adversaries and willingly allowed them to interfere in domestic affairs of the country and to weaken it from within, naively thinking that they were Pakistan's friends and war on terror was in common interest of USA as well as of Pakistan. They refused to wake up from their slumber despite frantic warnings give ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Finally, on January 13, 2012 Ministry for Information and Broadcasting released the report of a judicial commission investigating the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad whose body was found last year on May 31 near Rasul Head works in Mandi Bahauddin, 80 miles south-east of Pakistan's capital Islamabad. In this connection some local media anchors toed the Western line and tried to implic ...