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 ...

 By Asif Haroon Raja Despite Obama’s desperation to declare victory in Afghanistan, triumph is not in sight. The US is now striving to end the war in Afghanistan in a manner that its honor doesn’t get bruised. It wants the world to believe that its troops are abandoning Afghanistan of their own accord after achieving most objectives. While all the power centers in USA undoubtedly want to end the war on a wi ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although Pakistan’s provinces of Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan including city of Karachi have been facing various forms of subversive attacks, yet wave of terrorism has intensified in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which has perennially been targeted by the Taliban militants on regular basis. Besides other terror acts, militants’ attack on Peshawar Air Port on December 15, this year, and a car bomb ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi The fatigue factor in the war making machine is becoming more pronounced and visible in the long drawn war in Afghanistan as the timelines to Dec 2014 (end of combat) are getting shortened. The complexities of exit strategy are haunting the military minds and the post- 2014 Afghanistan is the nightmare of policy makers. Apparently peace is the objective of all the stakeholders but ...