Transformation in Iran-US relationship

By Asif Haroon Raja Iran-US antagonism started peaking in the aftermath of Islamic revolution in Iran, followed by seizure of American Embassy in Tehran by student militants in November 1979 and holding 52 Americans hostage for next 444 days. An American rescue operation ended in a disaster, which further bolstered Khomeini’s image in Iran and Islamic world. Hostages were released as a result of secret agre ...

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Sikh Nation Demands Immediate Release of Bhai Gurbaksh Singh

Council of Khalistan Press Release ‘RECOGNIZE YE ALL THE HUMAN RACE AS ONE’ Guru Gobind  Singh  Ji, the Tenth  Master 730 24th Street, N.W., #310 Washington, D.C. 20037 Contact: B. Singh 202 337-1904 khalistan@khalistan.com http://www.Khalistan.com Release Instructions: Immediate, December 6 2013 Sikh Nation Demands Immediate Release of Bhai Gurbaksh Singh Right to Protest Is Essential to Democracy WASHINGT ...

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Iran-Pakistan-Afghanistan triangular connectivity

Asif Haroon Raja During the Reza Shah Pahlavi era in Iran from 1953 to March 1979, Iran-Pakistan relations were extraordinarily warm. Iran supported Kashmir cause, extended military support during 1965 Indo-Pak war and full diplomatic support in the 1971 war with India. Iran helped in quashing 1973 insurgency in Balochistan. After Shah’s departure, certain events like Islamic revolution in Iran, Jihad again ...

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Collectivization promotes regional harmony

Asif Haroon Raja During the Reza Shah Pahlavi era in Iran from 1953 to March 1979, Iran-Pakistan relations were extraordinarily warm. Iran supported Kashmir cause, extended military support during 1965 Indo-Pak war and full diplomatic support in the 1971 war with India. Iran helped in quashing 1973 insurgency in Balochistan. After Shah’s departure, certain events like Islamic revolution in Iran, Jihad again ...

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Misapprehensions of the ‘Minister’ about ISI

By Sajjad Shaukat After a US drone attack which killed six students at a Madrassa (Religious seminary) in Hangu on November 21, this year, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) halted the NATO supply across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Afghanistan through sit-in protests and various rallies in order to denounce that these strikes are violation of Pakistan’s territorial integrity and are illegitimate acts of killing innoc ...

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Icy fortress of solitude snapped by Antarctic survey

An ominous cloud rises over Superman's icy man cave, the Fortress of Solitude, perhaps indicating that Lex Luthor is up to his dastardly tricks again. Actually, it is completely natural, and nothing to do with supervillain antics. It is a lenticular cloud, which can be produced when air near the surface gets pushed upwards as it flows over peaks in the landscape, creating pressure waves. The clouds form at ...

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TTP: Bajaur, South Waziristan battles

Asif Haroon Raja Once Bajaur came into the loop of terrorism in 2006, it became the exclusive domain of Maulvi Faqir Muhammad because of easy inflow of arms, equipment and funds from Kunar. This route of supply was also used for Swat via Dir. Srarogha within Mehsuds inhabited South Waziristan (SW) became the command centre of TTP under Baitullah Mehsud, where Qari Hussain trained small boys aged between 11 ...

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Shifting the Battlefield

  ALI SUKHANVER  The recent brutal killing of Molana Moavia, a leader of Ahl-e-Sunnat-wal-Jammat in Lahore is a proof that the terrorists have now planned to shift their battle-field from other cities of Pakistan to Lahore, the Provincial Capital of Punjab. Though the law enforcement agencies of Pakistan are doing their utmost to bridle the outrageous fiend of terrorism but the terrorists are also very ...

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