Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan has been continuously advocating peace talks with Taliban and insisting upon finding a political solution, but Kabul regime and Washington preferred brute force in Afghanistan. Pakistan was also advised to follow suit and pressured to launch another major operation in North Waziristan (NW) and eliminate safe havens of Haqqani network. Pakistan has all along helped Hamid Karzai regi ...

Posted by Javed Iqbal We are seeing a new round of terrorist's violence. Either the government has no capability to stop this violence or it does not solve this issue at all. Bloodshed continues to flow in the streets, mosques, and other places even at funerals. Terrorists are successfully creating a sense of fear everywhere through their activities. It seems a complete failure on part of provincial apparat ...

Posted by Javed Iqbal News & Views Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - Before May 11 elections, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) had approached the United Nations with the request to play its role to ensure free and fair elections in Pakistan. The MQM’s US Chapter central organizer had submitted to the UN a memorandum against the Election Commission’s decision for delimitation of some constituencies in Karachi. Urgi ...

Asif Haroon Raja The new regime has been handed down a huge mess and is at a loss where to start from and which problem to tackle first. All macroeconomic indicators are in negative, national kitty is empty and foreign investment has dried up. It has inherited bankrupt economy, an unmanageable energy crisis, massive debt, lawlessness and fraught security situation. The new leaders are heard saying that they ...

By Brig Iftikhar Ayub Khan (Retd) When the end comes near and victory seems distant than survival is the only option left. TTP came into being in 2007, before that they had restricted themselves to their respective agencies; mostly operating against US/ISAF in Afghanistan. Occasionally, they used to attack Pakistan security forces in retaliation to border interdiction, drone attacks and Lal Masjid etc. In f ...

By Zaheerul Hassan A former Indian investigator Satish Verma of Home Minister has disclosed that a member of the secret service team had accused that Indian governments staged terror attack on Lok Sabha and the 26/11 carnage in Mumbai. Notably, over 300 people were killed and injured during the attacks. As usually India stayed ISI responsible for these attacks. However, the alleged responsible for attacks A ...

ALI SUKHANVER Sometimes it seems next to impossible to decide what the actual problem of Balochistan is. Countless targeted killings, kidnappings, suicide attacks and bomb blasts have deprived the beautiful land of Balochistan of peace and prosperity. Just a few years back there was an impression that only the non-Balochis are being targeted in Balochistan. As a result of this impression thousands of Punjab ...

Posted by Javed Iqbal Monday, July 15, 2013 - Countering terrorism is one of the main operational tasks, Pakistani security apparatus is undertaking since last over a decade against militants of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Though, there has been concentration of the jobless former Mujahedeen (later turned militants) along the Pak-Afghan border, who fought against the former Soviet Union, but, they neve ...