By Sajjad Shaukat After the World War I, Turkish Empire was broken by the imperialist powers, as it was convenient for the latter to control small Muslim states. In one way or the other, the same practice continues by some foreign countries which are acting upon their covert agenda in further weakening the Islamic countries on ethnic and sectarian lines. In this regard, being the lonely nuclear stat ...

By Asif Haroon Raja When war against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan was won by the Mujahideen duly supported by Pakistan in 1989, the US claimed that the war couldn’t have been won without surface to air stinger missiles. In its view, stingers made the difference and forced the Soviets to beat a hasty retreat. In the ongoing war on terror in which the US for all practical purposes has lost the war and its ...

By Tariq Rizwan Year 2014 completes a century of cruelty and torture since the start of World War I which surpasses all the previous centuries on account of killing and torture. The death toll of the past 100 years has been more than that of any other century and our region, for one, continues to be mired in violence. What was supposed to be the war to end all wars turned out to be one of the many bloody co ...

  By Zaheerul Hassan A reputed Pakistan’s best known police-commander, Superintendent of Police (SP) Crime Investigation Department (CID) Chaudhry Aslam, near Essa Nagri embraced Shahdat in suicidal blast at the Lyari Expressway in Karachi today. Banned organization Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the blast. TTP also attacked his house in 2011. Just after the blast, TTP spokespe ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past era, the two warring parties used to follow the rules of the game and Geneva Conventions, while knowing each other’s target. Contrarily, war against terrorism is quite different, as it is against an invisible, mysterious and merciless enemy which does not respect any rule.  It is a war in which offence knows its target, but defence does not know. In this regard, during the last ...

By  Iftikhar Hussain Jazib Pakistan once again categorically stated that Pakistan has no favorites in Afghanistan and it fully supports peace and reconciliations efforts of Kabul. This assurance was supported by the release of senior Taliban prisoners on the demand of High Peace Council of Afghanistan to facilitate dialogue with Taliban. The Afghan Government and members of High Peace Council have acknowled ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Learning from his folly of sidelining most deserving and senior most Lt Gen Ali Kuli Khan and appointing Gen Pervez Musharraf as COAS in October 1998, PM Nawaz Sharif this time acted sensibly. Hullabaloo made by the media over delay in announcing the names of new CJCSC and COAS and then the supersession of Lt Gen Haroon Aslam was soon drowned after he appointed second and third senior mo ...

By Elizabeth Hayes Fighting Cancer is the most important need of the current era. Thousand of people die every year due to this cruel disease. However scientists are fighting to defeat cancer. Anyhow, the journal Science has identified immunotherapy as the Breakthrough of the Year, and although the accompanying article doesn’t name Providence Cancer Center specifically, the Portland-based center is a leader ...