Posted by Tariq Rizwan Pakistan is facing a dilemma. If the government does not take stern action against militants, or it procrastinates on initiating a dialogue due to the delaying tactics of the TTP, the latter gets the breathing space and time to reorganize. After being decimated in Swat and Malakand and elsewhere, Pakistani Taliban reorganized and came back with full force. On the other hand, the US fe ...

Posted by Tariq Rizwan THE debate is raging in the media after the recent drone attack that killed head of the TTP Hakimullah Mehsud, and impression is being conveyed by some politicos and analysts that the TTP was ready for holding talks with the government. But this is not true. Whether Hakimullah Mehsud was evil incarnate or someone willing to accept the writ of the state is not the point here. It is imp ...

Posted by Tariq Rizwan “I am going to address a crowd of brainless dummies”, the Indian Union Minister Mr. Shashi Throor might have been thinking when he was getting his video-message recorded for the Young Indo-Pak Entrepreneurs Conference to be held at Jinnah Auditorium Islamabad on 29th October this year. The audience included 22 Indian delegates and officials of the Indian High Commission, including env ...

Posted byTariq Rizwan Going by the statement of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a peace process and dialogue between Government of Pakistan and the TTP was imminent, which was sabotaged by the drone attack that killed its Supremo Hakimullah Mehsud. His statement was contentious, and his detractors disbelieved him. Since the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has elected a hardliner Taliban leader Mu ...

Posted by Tariq Rizwan As the time approaches for the upcoming session of Conference on Disarmament (CD), the nuclear comedy circus is back in business. Having failed to stick the nasty narratives about security of Pakistani nukes and their falling into the hands of terrorists, this time an interesting fictional twist has been added regarding interstate transfer of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. To add colours ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At this critical hour, Pakistan is passing through multi-faceted crises such as political instability, economic problems, social strife, menace of terrorism and scourge of corruption in wake of India’s war-like diplomacy and cross-border infiltration from Afghanistan’s side, which are further encouraging the foreign enemies to fulfill their collective designs at the cost of Pakistan, as it ...

By Shaista Zulfiqar While the ladies of the Wisteria Lane get together, gossip and catch up on who’s been doing what, our Desperate Housewives’ Club in DHA has a slightly more pompous agenda. A typical get-together of desi housewives’ meeting starts with sending out invitations, both in person and over phone. A meeting, in almost all cases, is either a khatm, milaad or something along the same lines and is ...

Asif Haroon Raja After nine-month Indian aided insurgency, the Indian Army launched a three directional offensive and managed to conquer East Pakistan in 1971 without crossing a single major river and without reducing any of the towns converted into fortresses. Jessore and Mymensingh had been abandoned and not captured. The much trumpeted counter offensive in the West conceived to release pressure on the ea ...