Muhammad Amjad The soldiers marched supporting the coffins of their comrades wrapped in green and white. With solemn faces, they proceeded unaware of the breeze that blew ferociously in salutation to its valiant heroes, who were lying peacefully after bestowing their lives for the nation. The sweet fragrance emanating from them was spreading across, mesmerising and engulfing everyone present to view the fun ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army would observe April 30 as Youm-e-Shuhada (Day of Martyrs) in recognition to those soldiers who laid their lives for the cause of the motherland. A number of functions to observe the day are being organized at General Headquarters and Corps Headquarters levels at the respective station on Friday, being the first Youm-e-Shuhada. Over 2,000 kin and relatives of the martyrs have been in ...

 Asif Haroon Raja Anti-Kalabagh dam (KBD) lobby in Pakistan has successfully scuttled plans to construct KBD which is technically most feasible, economically viable and beneficial for all the four provinces. ANP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) has doggedly opposed construction of this dam since in its view KBD will sink Nowshera in KPK. Sindh nationalist parties maintain that it would turn Sindh into an arid ar ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to South Asia Terrorism Portal, from January IST 2013 to April 21, 1536 individuals have been killed and 1263 sustained injuries as result of terrorism in Pakistan. However, in last eight days, 55 individuals killed and over 120 injured. Elections are being held just after few days on 11 May 2013.  But the visible elections campaign can only be seen in Punjab, whereas dreadfulne ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The year 2007 marked the beginning of end of Gen Musharraf’s rule which he commenced in October 1999 after deposing an elected government of Nawaz Sharif through a coup launched by his team of Generals while he was on his way back from Colombo. Lt Gen Aziz (CGS), Lt Gen Mahmood (Commander 10 Corps Rawalpindi), Lt Gen Usmani (Commander 2 Corps Karachi) and 111 Brigade Commander Brig Salah ...

By Glenn Greenwald Portraying Islam as a militant religion while ignoring horrific violence brought by the US to the Muslim world is dangerously self-flattering and self-delusional. News reports purporting to describe what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told US interrogators should, for several reasons, be taken with a huge grain of salt. The sources for this information are anonymous, they work for the US government, t ...

By James Zogby Earlier this week, a US Senate subcommittee held hearings on the use of drones. Most of those who testified were constitutional law professors or terrorism experts. In what was an emotional high-point of the proceedings, the committee also heard from a young US-educated Yemeni, Farea Al Muslimi, whose village had been hit by a drone attack just one week earlier (an attack similar to one he re ...

  By RT   Without hard evidence, American accusations of chemical weapons use in Syria fall short of UN proof standards, says a UN chemical inspector. And in the way proposed, a probe would only result in an Iraqi scenario, the Syrian information minister told RT. The anti-Assad lobby in the UN is using the chemical weapons scare as a new way to exert political and economic pressure on the Syrian government ...