By  Zameer Khan Banned outfit TTP Chief Hakimullah Mehsud said they were ready to come to the table with the government but not to be disarmed. He said this in a video of 40 minutes duration released on Thursday where he himself, his deputy Wali-ur-Rehman and on one occasion TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan could be seen. TTP has launched many suicidal attacks against innocent Pakistani civilians and against ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi According to the sources, the preparations to pay grant of Most Favored Nation status to India have been completed at the government level. Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf accorded approval to the strategic trade policy framework, which will be announced by commerce Minister Makhdum Amin Fahim after obtaining confirmation from entire cabinet, on Friday. Reportedly, the grant of ...

Lakhdar Brahimi urges "real change" in Damascus and for transitional leaders with full power until elections are held. Posted By Sheihk Zahoor International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has called for "real change" in war-torn Syria and the installation of a transitional government with full powers until elections can be held. The envoy unveiled his initiative in Damascus on Thursday as Russia, the most powerful a ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Friday, December 28, 2012 - On December 20, 2012, the Pakistani Parliament’s lower house approved a legislative bill, which if signed into law, will empower the state to conduct the interception of private communications in order to curb terrorism. There are mixed reactions to this legislation, termed as the “Fair Trial Bill”, which will sanction the state’s security agencies to ta ...

by Habib Yousafzai Many important facts have been highlighted in the article entitled above. The dominant ruling classes of the Indian state still dominate according to the Hindutva ideology. Although there is much verbal rhetoric of secularism and equality; in practice the Indian state apparatus operates in accordance with Hindu extremism. India refuses to accept Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists as distinct rel ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan Second week of December 2012, has brought an embracement to Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) and its traitors when  U.S. government has informed a New York court that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and its former chiefs “enjoy immunity” in the case filed by relatives of Mumbai attacks victims. Indian government has overtly provided the funds for the trial.  Though, appar ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi The resolve of Pakistani and Afghan leadership to bring peace in the insurgency-torn country is a significant step forward. Earlier, the peace prospects looked bleak in view of extreme positions taken by the US and the Taliban. The US had been insisting that Taliban should renounce violence, abandon Al Qaeda and abide by the Constitution. On the other hand, the Taliban had preclude ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is an unfortunate country whose destiny is intertwined with treacherous India in the east which lets go no opportunity to harm Pakistan, and Afghanistan on its northwest which is wild and unreliable.  Afghanistan prefers Hindu India over Muslim Pakistan in spite of the fact that it doesn’t share border with India and is not in sync ideologically.  Except for Taliban regime from 199 ...