Asif Haroon Raja Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani took over the command of Army from Gen Musharraf in end November 2007. As a result of three years extension given to him by the PPP government in November 2010, his second stint will expire on November 29, 2013. During his six years tenure he came across formidable challenges. When he took over, war on terror was in its sixth year and things were becoming increasing ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 10 November ISPR Spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa strongly condemned the irresponsible and misleading statements of Syed Munawar Hassan in a TV programme, declaring the dead terrorists like Hakimullah Mehsud and Baitullah Mehsud as shaheeds, whereas soldiers those who sacrificed their lives  fighting against terrorism are not shaheed. Similarly JUIF leader Fazlur Rehman stated that a ...

Abu Ezaan The prevailing stalemate in Afghan war amply validates the futility of military option in defeating insurgency. Erroneously, the political alternative has also been used to supplement the military option and weaken the insurgency to make it more amenable to reconciliation.  It is now imperative that political negotiations in Afghanistan are pursued with sole objective of peace and stability in the ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat People from different walks of life including politicians, religious scholars (Ulemas) and media persons have expressed their feelings of grief on the recent comments of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and especially of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Syed Munawar Hassan who evolved new theory on Shahadat (Martyrdom). Maulana Fazlur Rehman in an interview with senior j ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The US, India and Israel are in collusion to weaken Pakistan because it is the only nuclear country in the Islamic World. Based in Afghanistan, these countries’ secret agencies CIA, RAW and Mossad have been supporting subversive attacks in various cities of the country through their affiliated militant groups in order to fulfill collective secret strategic designs against Pakistan. While b ...

By Professor Ali Sukhanver  “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, includin ...

Abdul Zahoor Khan Marwat Indian geopolitical analyst Brahma Chellaney was recently quoted by the media as saying that “China is engaged in the greatest water grab in history. Not only is it damming the rivers on the plateau, it is financing and building mega-dams in Pakistan, Laos, Burma and elsewhere and making agreements to take the power.” He warned that China-India disputes had shifted from land to wate ...

S M Hali Former Indian Army Chief (2010-2012), General Vijay Kumar Singh’s admission of operating the TSD (Technical Services Division) and the surreptitious use of Secret Service (SS) funds to bribe Jammu & Kashmir Minister of Agriculture Ghulam Hasan Mir to engineer a change in the State Government, have created a furor amongst the politicians of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and embarrassed the India ...