By Manzoor Ali This is not a good year for the generals. In just ten days 3 four-star US generals have found way to infamy: Two generals, Gen Petraeus and Gen John Allen for infidelity and creating risk of security leaks and the third, Gen William 'Kip' Ward for misuse of government funds. Gen Kip has now to return 84 thousand dollars to the government. His shoulder will now carry one star less and he would ...

By Lisa Lundquist While the US has been distracted by the presidential election, the Syrian conflict, and jihadist outbursts in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, the Gaza strip and elsewhere, Pakistan has been moving at a glacial pace to restore NATO's critical oil supply line to Afghanistan. The logistical supply lines, but not the oil supply lines, were opened in July after an apology two months earlier by Secretary ...

By Claudette Roulo The commander of U.S. Special Operations Command said yesterday that a post-raid assessment concluded there is no evidence that the Pakistani government knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. [caption id="attachment_3855" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Navy Adm. William H. McRaven, right, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, talks with Charlie Rose, a CBS executive editor and ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi For nearly 200 years, the measure of a nation’s progress has been its capacity to westernise. Today, to a great extent, China has shifted this narrative.In the last three decades, China has lifted more than 500 million of its people out of poverty, according to the World Bank. The scale and speed of China’s growth are unprecedented. The world has never seen anything like the rise o ...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Xi Jinping (C) and the other newly-elected members of the Standing Committee of the 18th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Li Keqiang (3rd R), Zhang Dejiang (3rd L), Yu Zhengsheng (2nd R), Liu Yunshan (2nd L), Wang Qishan (1st R), Zhang Gaoli (1st L) meet with journalists at ...

By DECLAN WALSH Pakistan said it had released at least seven senior Afghan Taliban prisoners on Wednesday, rekindling fragile hopes that Islamabad may be ready to help broker peace talks with the militants as the Western military withdrawal from Afghanistan looms. A senior Pakistani security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that “seven to eight” Taliban prisoners had been set free but refu ...

Pakistan is on the cusp of joining an elite group of countries capable of manufacturing unmanned aircraft capable of killing as well as spying, a senior defence official has claims. Publicly, Islamabad, which officially objects to lethal drone strikes carried out by the CIA along its border with Afghanistan, says it is only developing remote-controlled aircraft for surveillance purposes. But last week, duri ...

Israel on Wednesday launched the most ferocious & brutal assault on Gaza in four years, hitting at least 20 targets in aerial attacks that killed many innocent including children and women, damaged Israel’s fragile relations with Egypt and escalated the risks of a new war in the Middle East. The Israel Defense Forces coupled the intensity of the airstrikes with the threat of a ground invasion of Gaza, r ...