Abdullah India’s plans to counterweight Pakistan’s submarine capability, and have an edge over China’s inferior submarine technology forced it to go for French submarine, a sister boat of Pakistan’s Agosta. But its plans have run into snags and have been severely frustrated. The blame has been laid at the door of “procurement bureaucracy” which is being targeted for a massive cost-escalation and huge time o ...

Osman Khan The renowned media personality Hamid Mir’s write-up (The News, Nov 2012) has called on the state of Pakistan to apologize to Bangladesh for the alleged atrocities committed by Pakistani Armed Forces and other paramilitary forces on Bengalis in 1971. Astonishingly, by advocating that Pakistan should apologize to Bangladesh, the author looked in complete oblivion of the barbaric atrocities also car ...

By Finian Cunningham US President Barack Obama’s renewed warning against Syria this week, that any use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces is a red line triggering direct military assault on the country, can be seen as the Western powers moving towards their endgame of “regime change.” Washington first raised the specter of Syrian chemical weapons several months ago and warned then that it would ...

By Gowhar Geelani Some moderate leaders of a faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference [APHC] — an amalgam of various political and social organisations favouring ‘palatable’ resolution to the Kashmir issue — are making claims like they will be visiting Pakistan “as owners and not slaves” and “will talk business there”, but some keen Kashmir watchers are not sounding as sanguinely hopeful about the out ...

By Jerome R. Corsi Getting Republicans to agree to a tax increase on “the rich” is not the ultimate aim of the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress, says noted tax activist Grover Norquist. Norquist, president and founder of Americans for Tax Reform, said the first act “is to get congressional Republicans to put their fingerprints on what amounts to a minor tax increase.”   “After raising taxes on ...

         By Sajjad Shaukat Since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid came into power, India has been employing various tactics to entrap Bangladesh by manipulating her pro-Indian tilt to fulfill its strategic interests. In this regard, Indian daily, ‘The Hindu,’ pointed out that government of Bangladesh seeks to arrange the 4th phase of ceremony on 15 December 2012 at Bangabandhu International Conference Cen ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi In September 2012, Amnesty International (AI) has published its annual report, entitled, “Still a ‘Lawless Law’ Detention under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978.” The report of the AI is based on ground realities and the facts, established after the members of its team physically visited the Indian Occupied State of Jammu and Kashmir. Since last few years, IA is regula ...

By  Zaheerul Hassan After an year of U.S. attack on Slala Check post, an high level meeting has been arranged in Rawalpindi cantt.  The ice between countries melted when U.S sought apology over the attack and as resulted supply to NATO forces has been restored.  Senior US and Pakistani defence and military officials met on Tuesday to discuss the regional security environment and the situation along the Paki ...