By Sajjad Shaukat Protests and demonstrations by the Shia community enveloped almost all the country in reaction to the deadly twin blasts which killed more than 50 people, and damaged various buildings on March 3, this year in the Shia-dominated Abbas Town of Karachi. Next day, Sohrab Goth area of Karachi turned into battlefield with heavy exchange of fire after the four mourners of the burial procession w ...

The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers are funding a project that uses crowdsourcing to improve how machines analyze our speech. Even more radical: Darpa wants to make systems so accurate, you’ll be able to easily record, transcribe and recall all the conversations you ever have. Analyzing speech and improving speech-to-text machines has been a hobby horse for Darpa in recent years. But this takes it a step fu ...

By Hari Singh India established a dedicated external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Founded mainly to focus on China and Pakistan, over the last forty years the organization has expanded its mandate of breeding terrorist activities all over the world especially in Afghanistan. ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi The maritime challenges for Pakistan are compounded by its strategic location. Situated at the confluence of three important regions of the world, namely Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia, being astride the Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz, in close proximity to global energy highway, makes Pakistan a key regional state. The Strait of Hormuz - a strategic waterway - provide ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Monday, March 04, 2013 - Since the inception of Pakistan, Balochistan is considered the most deprived and backward province of Pakistan. Reasons behind this deprivation are multiple and manifold. Historically speaking, British during their rule did not pay much attention to the development of Balochistan due to the highly centralized policies. Consequently, It remained one of the m ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Wednesday, March 06, 2013 - India see itself as a rising regional power and as it is said that rising powers seek to enhance their security and agenda by increasing their capabilities and their control over the external environment so India is doing exactly the same by adopting a more proactive role in its extended neighborhood that is Afghanistan so that they can control the exter ...

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER ‘The death toll rose to at least 37 in violence sparked by a controversial death sentence handed down against the head of an Islamic party for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 war of independence’, reported The Los Angeles Times on the first day of this March. The paper further says, ‘Tensions have been running high in recent weeks as verdicts were announced in the tria ...

Eric Margolis Secretary of Defence is the second most important and the toughest job in the US government after President.Since the 9/11 attacks, US foreign policy has become highly militarised. The Pentagon today dominates US relations with the rest of the world, not the State Department or CIA. The Pentagon’s 2013 total budget will be $800 billion when all programmes, including ‘black’ projects, are inclu ...