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 ...

Posted by John Petrias Monday, December 24, 2012 - At present the gravest problem that Pakistan is facing is terrorism. It has become a headache for federation and a nightmare for public. Though, it is a global issue but Pakistan has to bear the brunt of it because of Pakistan is a front line ally in the War on Terror. We are facing war like situation against the terrorists. This daunting situation is cause ...

Asif Haroon Raja Military capability is required to protect the country from internal and external threats, while political stability and economic prosperity is essential for development. The three components help in protecting the sovereignty, integrity and security of a state as well as well-being of the people. The three are interlinked and cannot be separated from each other. It will be ideal to concent ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On December 21, 2012 at least six people have been killed and 18 sustained injuries in a blast in Peshawar. According to the  reports, the suicidal blast took place near a political gathering of ANP in Qissa Khawani Bazaar area of Peshawar.  Senior Provincial Minister and renowned political leader of ANP, M. Bashir Ahmed Bilour  embraced shahadat. Station Police officer Sattar and persona ...

      By Sajjad Shaukat                                     While paying much attention on various internal crises including subversive activities of terrorist outfits in the country, Pakistan’s defence analysts and media anchors have ignored the designs of India which has been trying to disrupt Pak-Saudi relations. By taking cognisance of rapidly changing geo-political developments in the region like US de ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi In a press release issued in November 2012, the United Nations Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) revealed that some 3.7 million Afghan refugees have returned home through UNHCR’s largest voluntary repatriation programme since 2002, while around 1.66 million registered Afghan refugees still remain in Pakistan. According to a survey conducted by UNHCR public information unit 1.65 milli ...