Asif Haroon Raja Delving into the history of Pak-US relations spread over six decades one finds that the US relationship was always transactional in nature. Friendship turned into coldness and at times hostility the moment its objectives were achieved. After betraying Pakistan in the 1965 and 1971 wars against India, it made friends with Pakistan in 1981 to help fight the proxy war against Soviet forces In ...
Read more ›How we made Pakistan
Posted by Javed Iqbal Pakistan is the acronym of Persian word “Pak” which means pure and “Istaan” which means territory. Hence, Pakistan can be categorically defined as land of pure people. Before leading the topic towards present scenario, history of Pakistan should be given a focused view. Basically, Pakistan did not get independence on 14th of August 1947 rather it was made independent in the skies by t ...
Read more ›Jinnah’s vision and social harmony
Professor Anjum James Paul The nation is celebrating the 66 Independence Day of Pakistan. It is so sad that the Pakistani nation has forgotten the vision of the Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah the founder of Pakistan that he presented to the Constituent Assembly in Karachi on August 11, 1947 on his election as the first President of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. The Pakistani nation has not been fa ...
Read more ›Gen Kayani: Lets have National Consensus over Countering Terrorism
Posted By Rida Zaheer Pakistan is passing under the turmoil of internal and external terrorism . We lost thousands of individuals in fighting militancy. Our soldiers set excellent examples of valiant actions in elimination of terrorism. In this regard over 3000 soldiers sacrifice their lives. On 14 August, 2013 , Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has called for creating a national ...
Read more ›Countering Terrorism
By Ali Sukhanver Whenever we discuss the role of law enforcement agencies, particularly with specific reference to the continuous wave of terrorism in Pakistan, we simply ignore the reality that the role and responsibility of the law enforcement agencies is absolutely different from that of the intelligence agencies. And not only in Pakistan but all over the world, this difference in the working ...
Read more ›What the Independence Day Demands?
By Sajjad Shaukat Although the 14th August which is celebrated every year as the Independence Day, has come at a time when Pakistan is facing multiple threats of grave nature internally and externally, which are not only worrying all the citizens, and are creating divisions among the federal and provincial institutions, yet are also putting the very integration of the state at stake. Besides, during this ve ...
Read more ›The grand Indian strategy
Dr Muhammad Khan Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - The book entitled, Grand Strategy for India 2020 and Beyond, edited by Krishnappa Venkatshamy and Princy George is indeed a future vision of India to become a major global power. It is an initiative of the Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. The book is based on a four-day international conference on India’s National Security Strategy, ...
Read more ›Military bashing has become fashionable
Asif Haroon Raja Hardly four months have lapsed since the departure of the most corrupt government in the history of Pakistan that some writers like Imran Khan (‘A season for negotiations’ in The News dated July 17, 2013) have obliquely started defending the doings of the parasitic regime. He argues that the previous government failed to provide security to the people because of the failure of military and ...
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