By Zaheerul Hassan There was an uproar in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly Tuesday after the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demanded that the mortal remains of Afzal Guru be brought back to the state and some angry members almost came to blows. Parliament attack convict Guru was hanged and buried in Delhi's Tihar Jail Feb 9. Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Monday ruled out handing over his b ...

By Patrick Henningsen The evidence is now in, as list of state actors can now be seen openly conspiring to drive the Middle East into full-blown war. It’s well known by now that NATO and the Gulf States initial plans to overturn the sovereign state of Syria has been running behind schedule since their operation was launched two years ago. They had hoped for the sort of slam dunk which they enjoyed in overtu ...

By Asif Haroon Raja   The US-NATO-CIA-Afghan regime-India have been continually casting aspersions on the ISI that it is ‘intimately involved’ with the insurgency in Afghanistan and is secretly aiding Afghan Taliban. They allege that but for ISI’s support; the Taliban couldn’t have snatched the initiative from them and forced them to withdraw. Although the allegation is baseless and unsubstantiated, for arg ...

Asif Haroon Raja India has a long history of aggressions against Pakistan since its inception in August 1947. Soon after partition, India burdened Pakistan with plethora of unsettling problems and then forced a war on newly born Pakistan in October 1947 by making illegal intrusion in princely state of Kashmir that was to become part of Pakistan in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiris and laws framed ...

Urooj Raza Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - The possibility of nuclear materials falling into the wrong hands is a shared concern. Pakistan is part of global efforts to make sure that terrorists do not lay their hands on nuclear materials, knowledge and expertise. As far as the safety & security of the nuclear assets is concerned, the Pakistan military controls the nuclear weapons, and has instituted a range o ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Nejad terms it peace project CHAHBAHAR: Despite strong opposition from the US and warnings of economic sanctions, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad on Monday officially inaugurated construction work of a delayed $7.5 billion gas pipeline. The ceremony, which the President's office described as a 'big event', was held in the Iranian borde ...

By Ishrat Husain THE debate on the relative merits of “big bang” economic reforms vis-à-vis “gradual” reforms has preoccupied policymakers in many emerging nations since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The proponents of “big bang” reforms argue that the latter will bring about a fundamental shift in people’s expectations about the future by altering the existing structure of the economy ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi The Indian government is afraid of 83 year-old man. This man is firm and resolute in his efforts to liberate Kashmir from the Indian clutches. Syed Ali Gillani, a great political leader, freedom fighter and true voice of Kashmir, was born in Badipora on 29 September 1929. He started his political career in 1950. He completed his education from Oriental College, Lahore. He has spent ...