By Zaheerul Hassan Fazlullah has been elected as the new chief and Khalid Haqqani as the deputy chief of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.” TTP caretaker leader Asmatullah Shaheen announced from an undisclosed location in northwest Pakistan. The news came into air when I have almost completed my analysis on killing of Hakimullah Mehsud. Hence my last logic regarding replacing Hakimullah with Fazlullah stand proved ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Nawaz government realizing that economic health of the country couldn’t be revitalized without peaceful conditions organized APC on September 9, 2013 to push the peace process. Much to the chagrin of anti-peace lobbies, the APC passed a unanimous resolution seeking dialogue with the militants without pre-conditions. Positive response from the TTP welcoming the outcome of APC gave reason ...

[caption id="attachment_2832" align="alignright" width="525"] Terrorists Commander[/caption]      By Sajjad Shaukat Since the Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed by the US drone strikes on November 1, this year, leaders of the ruling and opposition parties including prominent figures and Unlmas (Religious scholars) have stared taking the event as a conspiracy against Pakistan ...

By Ahmed  Ali 1.1       Introduction A.        The threat of nuclear terrorism, especially after 9/11, and past nuclear disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima Nuclear Plant, has profoundly changed the discourse of global regime for nuclear safety and security. After Fukushima power plant disaster, the world leaders sensed the urgency to discuss safety and security of nuclear weapons. In this regards, the se ...

By Abid Hussain University  of Peshawar The University of Peshawar (UoP) (www.upesh.edu.pk)  is a public sector university located in Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The university was established in October 1950 by Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan as an expansion of Islamia College Peshawar, which was founded in 1913. The University of Peshawa ...

  By Peter Koenig The Western media are happily touting the success of another murderous American drone strike - killing Pakistan Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud - and 25 other Pakistani – just collateral damage, no more. Glorifying drone strikes. Glorifying killing. The West is used to it. Deep inside they may even like it. Under the Obama Regime, assassinations are the order of the day. Obama - so he prou ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Six poor coalminers of Hazara Shia community of Quetta were gunned down near Machh town, in Bolan district, on first day of November 2013. The banned outfit Jaish-ul-Islam claimed responsibility, while talking to journalists on phone from an unspecified place, Jaish-ul-Islam’s spokesman Ghazi Haq Nawaz said his organisation had carried out the attack in retaliation for security forces’ op ...

Engr Asad Ali Markhand Corruption has become equal with our existing system and is pushing our nation to a dead end. Favouritism, nepotism, misappropriation of public fund, bad debts and misuse of power are on the rise. Corruption has gained roots in our society because of wrong decisions and weak policies of the successive governments. It is the misuse of entrusted power for private gains. Our country is p ...