Asif Haroon Raja When the US and its allies failed to impose a military solution, and its sinister plan to pitch Taliban against Al-Qaeda, or to divide Taliban by categorizing them as good and bad Taliban and making them fight against each other also failed, and morale of ISAF troops started sinking because of prolonged stay in battle zone, home sickness, rising battle casualties, suicide cases and psychia ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Thursday, February 21, 2013 - Given that Afghanistan has been in a state of war for nearly 35 years, only a broad-based reconciliation can resolve the fighting. Peace talks are a vital part of that process. Here are five factors necessary to achieving a sustainable peace in Afghanistan. (1) All Afghans need to be represented in peace talks, whether those participants be the governm ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Nationwide demonstrators, strikes and sit-in protests by the Shias enveloped various cities and towns of the country for four days in reaction to the deadly suicide attack which killed more than 100 persons of the Hazara Shias in Quetta at Kirani Road, Hazara Town, on February 17, this year. Even, leaders of the Sunni political and religious parties strongly condemned the incident, express ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi India has made its reaction explicit over Pakistan’s decision to hand over administrative control of the strategically located Gawadar Port from Singapore to a Chinese company. The statement of A.K Antony, India’s Minister of Defense and strategic experts expressing their ‘’concern’’ reflected the fact that they are not happy over this important decision of Pakistan. The Indians fe ...

Posted by Sumera On Saturday, more than 85 people including men, women and children were killed and at least 200 wounded when a large explosion shook Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan province. The explosion occurred near a market at the busy Kirani Road area of the city, located near Hazara Town, where a large population of the ethnic Hazara community resides. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi immediately cla ...

Posted by Tomy Francis By executing the Kashmiri in the way that it did, the Indian government has decided to fuel the process of destabilisation  Mohammad Afzal Guru Supporters in in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, of various political religious parties, take part in a demonstration to condemn the hanging of Mohammad Afzal Guru. Photograph: Amiruddin Mughal/Reuters What are the pol ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi THE Siachen dispute has exacted a toll. A study by Dr Ghulam Rasul of the Pakistan Meteorological Department entitled Climate Data and Modelling Analysis of the Indus Ecoregion warns that the Siachen glacier has been reduced by 5.9 kilometres in longitudinal extent between 1989 and 2009. A ‘Siachen proposal’ was formulated some months ago at Lahore by a group of retired military of ...

Humanity May Not Survive Obama's Second Term  By Stephen Lendman Multiple previous P5+1 talks were held. America manipulated them to fail. So did Israel covertly. Western nations were pressured to go along.  On February 26, new talks will be held in Almaty, Kazahhstan. Expect no more this time than earlier.  It bears repeating. Tehran's nuclear program isn't at issue. It's red herring cover for imperial aim ...