Posted By Faheem Belharvi The start of the year has brought the withdrawal of US-led international troops from Afghanistan one step closer. This year will be pivotal, as it becomes ever more pressing to shore up the security situation in the Central Asian country and arrange the details of the transition that leads up to next year’s withdrawal. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is paying a visit to the United S ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi (Friday Feature) Muhammad (whose name means "highly praised") was born in Mecca in 570 AD. His father died shortly before his birth, and he lost his mother at the age of six. The young orphan was then raised primarily by his uncle, for whom he worked as a shepherd. At age 9 (some sources say 12), he joined his uncle on a caravan to Syria. As a young man, Muhammad worked as a camel ...

By Mansoor Jafar Just a couple of days after Pakistan’s army brought radical change in its military doctrine by replacing its enemy number one - India - with the terrorists along Afghan border and inside the country, an attack by the Indian army on a Pakistani military post in Islamabad-controlled Kashmir left one soldier killed and another wounded. Both the armies have been engaged in such skirmishes on th ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi In the midst of a decline in suicide attacks in the heartlands, the democratic dispensation is determined to exercise a complete control in the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), by passing ‘Investigation for Fair Trial Bill 2012’ authorizing the law enforcing agencies to actually track down the electronic chain of communication used by suspects in cases of terrori ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Our visionary founding leaders saw through an opportunity of great benefits in this small Omani town of Gwadar as early as 1954. For the purpose, newly born state of Pakistan purchased this small fishing town, which was geographically contiguous anyway, for a partly $3 million in 1958. This small costal town located on the mouth of the strategic Persian Gulf was seen as a major tra ...

By our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Pakistan strongly rejected the Indian allegation of an attack across the Line of Control (LoC) on its military patrol in which two Indian soldiers were claimed to have been killed. "These are baseless and unfounded allegations", said the Foreign Office. In a statement issued by the Foreign Office, it was maintained that Pakistan was prepared to hold investigations through th ...

Prpfessor Ali Sukhanver According to the New York Times, an ex-CIA officer Mr. John C. Kiriakou is scheduled to be sentenced to 30 months in prison as part of a plea deal in which he admitted violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by e-mailing the name of a covert C.I.A officer to a freelance reporter. The paper says Mr. Kiriakou, 48, earned numerous commendations in nearly 15 years at the C.I ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the Pakistani Taliban led by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offered peace talks with the government, a debate has continued in our country among the political leaders and analysts, showing divergent views. But they have ignored the fact that the militants’ offer is part of their dual policy by which they seek to fulfil a number of secret designs. By following tricks, TTP wants t ...