The Pakistani Taliban sidelined a senior commander Saturday for welcoming the government’s offer to hold peace talks, the group’s spokesman said, exposing a rift within the group and raising questions about the likelihood of negotiations. The commander, Asmatullah Muawiya, was not authorized to respond to the government’s offer, said Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid. Muawiya has been removed ...

  Posted By Zaheerul Hassan  Syrian situation has dragged Middle East into fire but U.S seems terribly failed in achieving in her long term objectives. Saudi Shah recently very rightly warned his old friend U.S. to stop interfere in Middle East countries. In this regard Shah Abdullah categorically mentioned that U.S. is behind Syrian and Egyptian  current crises. According to a diplomatic report about the “ ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat With the support of the US, both India and Israel have been acting upon a secret diplomacy, targeting China and Pakistan. In this context, Israel’s Ambassador to India, Mark Sofer in an interview to the Indian weekly Outlook on February 18, 2008 disclosed about India’s defence arrangements with Tel Aviv, and joint exercises in the Indian Ocean, saying, “We do have a defence relationship w ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Terror-related incidents such as bomb blasts, suicide attacks, abductions, target killings, ethnic and sectarian violence including assaults on security forces and law-enforcing agencies have enveloped Pakistan, especially Karachi, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Regrettably, these security forces and law-enforcing agencies are not only targeted by terrorists, but are also under stric ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan  Don’t let them bully you Ms Anusha Rehman Khan  Once again, I felt my self compelled to write on the issue which is being deliberately used for confusing our “SAADA AWAM” by misquoting the facts so here goes my pen (Oops Keyboard) again for putting the facts straight. The justified ban on YouTube is not a domestic but a national security as well as financial issue.   I am not against ca ...

Asif Haroon Raja During Nawaz’s first tenure from 1990 to 1993, Shariah Act was passed by National Assembly in May 1991, which made it obligatory for Muslims to follow injunctions of Islam. He watched the peaking of freedom movement in occupied Kashmir and the valor of Kashmiris resisting the might of over 700,000 Indian security forces and braving their gruesome brutality. It had led to emergence of severa ...

On Wednesday, the US Treasury designated a Pakistani madrassa (Islamic school) as a terrorist organization and imposed sanctions on it. It is the first time ever that sanctions are imposed on an educational institution. While the Treasury claims that it is the madrassa which is radicalizing the insurgents in Pakistan and Afghanistan, another report of recent days forces one to put such statement to doubt. A ...

Asif Haroon Raja India is the largest country in South Asia and its leaders never tire of boasting that India is the super power of the region and a potential world power. Indira doctrine advocated India’s unrestricted influence over the whole region. India is past master in covert operations and propaganda war and habitually resorts to intrigues, economic coercion and blackmail. It never shies of threateni ...