By Sajjad Shaukat The targeted operation against terrorists, target killers, and kidnappers continues unabated, while the Rangers with the help of Police have arrested several criminals besides capturing huge catches of arms and weapons. The Present Government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif launched the present operation after obtaining consensus of all stakeholders like political parties, business co ...

By S. M. Hali Pakistan is facing numerous problems of a myriad nature. It is difficult to pinpoint, which is more ominous since the very existence of Pakistan is at stake. Attempts by different perpetrators to have Pakistan labeled as a terrorist state and have international sanctions imposed upon it is but one the few, which can have far reaching consequences.The discovery of Osama bin Laden (OBL)’s allege ...

                                      By Sajjad Shaukat Since the present government of Pakistan has started its move to exchange Dr. Aafia Siddiqui with Dr. Shakeel Afridi, some high officials and leaders of the ruling party have been appreciating this illogical decision. Otherwise, no comparison can be made between the cases of Aafia and Shakeel, which are quite different from each other. Dr Afridi was ar ...

By Mohammad Jamil Like many developing countries, ruling and opposition parties in Pakistan have variegated views. Since the government has to formulate a common policy acceptable to great majority of the people, it enters into dialogue with those advocating different policies with a view to creating unanimity. It is indeed a stupendous task to bring different thinking minds, traversing different paths, ope ...

By Mohammad Jamil        Life was paralysed in Karachi on Wednesday amid gunfire and arson attacks after police arrested Nadim Hashmi, a former MPA of the MQM, on murder and terror charges over the killing of two cops. At least four vehicles were torched, and schools, shops and petrol stations were closed. Since the targeted operation started in Karachi, scores of activists belonging to religious outfits, p ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Controversy still continues about the assassination of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto who was targeted in a gun and bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007 after addressing a rally, while Gen. Pervaz Musharraf was President of Pakistan. As regards contradictions about Benazir’s murder, earlier, the former government of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) h ...

Asif Haroon Raja This write up is a rejoinder to the editorial titled ‘A Province’s Plight’ appearing in The News dated September 9, 2013. At the very outset, let me correct the Editor’s assertion that X11 Corps moved to Quetta in 2004 before the insurgency and then stayed on. Pakistan Army doesn’t use Roman alphabets for its Corps like Indian Army but English alphabets. 12 Corps HQ was raised in Quetta in ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Having forcibly changed Qaddafi’s regime in Syria, the US and its western allies are now fully focused towards Syria since early 2011 to bring down Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Billions of dollars are being pumped in to support Syrian rebels and to keep the civil war inflamed. In April 2012 Summit held in Turkey and attended by 70 nations, a total of $ 100 million was pledged by Saudi Arabi ...