The five lieutenant generals, who will be senior most on November 29, 2016, the retirement date of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, are Lt Gen Maqsood Ahmad, Lt Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Lt Gen Syed Wajid Hussain, Lt Gen Najib Ullah Khan and Lt Gen Ishfaq Nadeem. Lt Gen Maqsood Ahmad will be the senior most lieutenant general on November 29. He is currently in USA serving as Military Advise ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan suffers from multiple ailments. None care to carry out an appraisal as to what is wrong with Pakistan and why Pakistan is perpetually sick and not getting cured. Over a period of time, we seem to have lost our direction and have gone astray. The society as a whole is sunk in the pool of moral degeneration. High morals, principles, ethics, values, respect, brotherhood, affections ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With the acceleration of the different war between the sovereign and non-sovereign entities, dangers are looming that by availing the vicious phenomena of global terrorism, any entity can use Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) inside the US and Europe or any western country to obtain its selfish interests. This is the area of very sensitive nature. Therefore, we need caution to reach the c ...

By Mr Tariq Rizwan Pakistan and India achieved independence from British rule on 14 and 15 August 1947 respectively, as a result of independence struggle extended over decades. The two respective national leaders, Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi played decisive role for their nations’ victory.The constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950, replacing the Government of India ...

Mr Tariq Rizwan Afghanistan enjoys a tremendous geostrategic importance and is considered a bridge between the warm waters and the minerals laden Central Asia and Eurasia. Such importance proved to be disadvantageous as the country remained a battle ground among the regional and extra regional powers coupled by the wary local Pashtun traditions. Indeed, the country’s importance is intact and the instable Af ...

By Ali Sukhanver The asylum application filed by Nawab Akbar Bugti’s grandson Brahamdagh Bugti has been rejected by the Swiss immigration authorities. This rejection was on the basis of Pakistan’s decision of declaring him a terrorist. Pakistan had declared Brahamdagh Bugti-led Baloch Republican Party BRP as a terrorist organization. It is something very positive on the part of the Swiss government that it ...

By Zaheerul Hassan History of strained relationship between two oil producing countries Kingdome of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Iran is too old. The major causes of continuous deteriorating relationship are based on sectarianism, differences in ideology, variation in economic, political, military interests, controlling Gulf and unannounced desires of attaining regional domination. Proxy war between Iran and KSA ...

Media and judiciary are generally viewed as the strong pillars of any democratic country. Traditionally, judiciary and media in India have maintained reasonably good standards and have gained considerable public support. Unfortunately, in recent times, judiciary has been subjected to much criticism and several of the judgements have been received with skepticism by the people. In the same way, Indian media, ...