By Sajjad Shaukat Russia’s Defense Ministry hosted the fifth Moscow Conference on International Security, held in Moscow on April 27-28, 2016 with the participation of high military officials and experts from around the world to discuss the fight against terrorism and other pressing security challenges. Besides, security problems of Asian-Pacific region, war and peace problems in Europe as well as global se ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is credited for reversing the security situation during his extended six years tenure. Soon after he took over from Gen Pervez Musharraf as COAS in November 2007, he tasked the ISI under Lt Gen Shuja Pasha to regain lost intelligence space in FATA that had been surreptitiously captured by CIA and FBI by establishing outposts and creating TTP. He reverted army off ...

نغمہ حبیب آرمی چیف نے بیان دیا کہ جب تک ملک سے کرپشن ختم نہ ہو جائے دہشت گردی اور شدت پسندی کا خاتمہ ممکن نہیں انہوں نے اس عزم کا اظہار بھی کیا کہ اس سلسلے میں ہونے والی ہر سنجیدہ کوشش میں فوج حکومت کا ساتھ دے گی اور تعاون کرے گی۔ آرمی چیف کے بیان کے بعد حسب معمول ملک میں شدید ترین ارتعا ش پیدا ہوا جہاں ایک طرف اس عزم کا خیر مقدم کیا گیا تو دوسری طرف اعتراض کرنے والے بھی میدان میں آگئے اور کہا گیا کہ آرمی چ ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although apparently, India claims to be the largest democracy, acting upon the principles of liberalism and secularism, yet since the leader of the ruling party BJP Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India, various extremist developments like unprecedented rise of Hindu extremism, persecution of minorities, forced conversions of other religious minorities into Hindus, ban on beef and c ...

By Asif Haroon Raja 11.5 million files leaked by a whistle blower from an offshore company in Panama and published by a German newspaper has created ripples in the world. These are just the first batch released and many more are likely to be made public. Leaks are not a new phenomenon when seen in context with WikiLeaks and Snowden’s revelations. Nothing came out of the two earthshaking exposures and those ...

By Sajjad Shaukat There is a co-relationship of the US-led West’s double standards and double game in relation to human rights, terrorism and so on. But, this dual strategy, particularly regarding India and Pakistan in wake of the unresolved issue of Kashmir, including the Middle East in connection with the unsettled Palestinian-Israeli dispute, especially the Syrian question may culminate into nuclear war. ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although rampant corruption in Pakistan has continued by damaging the social and institutional fabric of the country, yet it has again come into limelight, after the massive leak of secret documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which were released on April 3, this year. The level of tax avoidance and money laundering, disclosed in the Panama Papers Leaks run into the several ...

By Asif Haroon Raja India has not reconciled to the existence of Pakistan and strives to reduce it to the status of a Satellite State. While Indian Congress preaches soft Hindutva behind the façade of secularism, BJP and other extremist Hindu groups profess hard Hindutva. Hindu extremism in India has gained political, military as well as ideological strength and in foreseeable future fever of Hindutva is no ...