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 ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistan desires to have “cordially, friendly, cooperative and good neighbourly relations" with India as there are tremendous opportunities for the two countries to enhance cooperation for their mutual benefit, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Wednesday. In this connection Zardari hosted special Diwali dinner at the presidency for visiting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his dele ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi The Supreme Court of Pakistan has been investigating the Balochistan predicaments since last few months. On October 12, 2012, the apex court issued an interim order over the deteriorating law and order situation in the province. The crux of the Supreme Court interim order of the October 12, 2012 was that, the Government of Balochistan has failed to fulfill its constitutional duties ...

By Tony Lee Former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus may have told his alleged mistress Paula Broadwell what really happened in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 when terrorists murdered U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Broadwell, whose alleged affair with Petraeus forced him to resign last Friday, revealed during an October 26 speech at the University of Denver that Libyan terror ...