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 ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned political thinkers, Hobbes, Machiavelli and Morgenthau opine that rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud and falsehood which become the principles of political morality. In one way or the other, they also follow these tactics in seeking revenge to fulfill their selfish aims. But such a sinister politics was replaced by new trends such as fair-dealings, forgiveness, ...

 Mir FahadShaikh The Main Problem : The problem is that whosoever has had the chance of being in power and authority in any form has only acted to fulfill his personal desires, greed for money, fill his own pockets and lust for power. No one has ever thought of Pakistan or the ordinary people, or to improve their living and their miserable plight. Pakistani Society: There are still few people left whom we c ...

Asif Haroon Raja Although maligned by all and sundry, the fact is that all the bosses of Gen Yahya Khan in the Army gave him excellent reports and none doubted his military capabilities. Notwithstanding his failings, he was not corrupt and sincerely wanted to resolve the East Pakistan crisis to the best of his abilities. But he neither had political experience nor much understanding of political and constit ...