By Usman Ali khan Post-2014 situation in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US, NATO and ISAF has been the most vexing debate in recent times. United States urge to end Afghan war is a very intricate problem. The war in Afghanistan is far from over and dream to secure peace in the region is on its way. Americans are evacuating the country after 12 years and idealistically labeling it as their victory but i ...

By Brig (R) Iftikhar Ayub Khan As they say the wise is the one who learn from others mistakes. However, in case of Afghanistan it has long been proven that the world is scant of wise men. Even before Alexander’s time, foreign powers have been jostling in Afghanistan and changing hands as well as destinies. Achaemenieds, Mauryans, Mongols, Mughals, Safavids as well as the British and the Soviets learnt the t ...

Asif Haroon Raja Dual faced Indian leaders show the soft face of India to the world depicting India as humble, peace loving and harmless and hide its real face full of intrigue, falsehood, cunningness and malice. Her neighbors in South Asia have to deal with the second face. In order to hide her crimes against humanity, India masquerades as champion of democracy, secularism and protector of human rights. In ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Socialists agree that historical background and national character play a key in moulding the behaviour pattern of a country’s people, while customs and beliefs also influence the thoughts of individuals. But electronic media of the rival countries have accelerated the process in formulating the opinion of persons against each other. In these terms, as part of psychological warfare, beside ...

Asif Haroon Raja The leaked Abbottabad Commission Report is the ongoing hot topic. It has reopened the wounds that had begun to heal. A little over two years ago the US Navy SEALs mounted in four Blackhawk stealth helicopters had secretly intruded into Pakistan airspace on late night of May 1/2, 2011. After killing Osama bin Laden (OBL) in his compound in Abbottabad the raiders took away his body and later ...

CIA Drone hit Mosque and Rescuers after drone strikes. by Chris Woods with additional reporting by Mushtaq Yusufzai A field investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in Pakistan’s tribal areas appears to confirm that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) last year briefly revived the controversial tactic of deliberately targeting rescuers at the scene of a previous drone strike. The tactic has ...

A secret surveillance system known as XKeyscore allows US intelligence to monitor "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet," according to leaked documents published on Wednesday. Citing classified documents provided by fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, British daily the Guardian said the program was the most wide-reaching operated by the National Security Agency (NSA). The paper ...

By Usman Khalid Pakistan has elected a new President – Mamnoun Hussain. Memnun is a Turkish word which means ‘grateful’. Memnun Oldum is ‘Thank You” in Turkish. But memnun is more than a word; it describes a personality. I served in CENTO in Turkey for more than three years (1966-70) and was inspired by the Turkish institution of ‘gratitude’. During the First World War, the Muslims in India were the subject ...