Posted by Faheem Belharvi At least 23 people dies and many more injured in a suicide blast in Rawalpindi. Three people died and many other injured in two different incidents of terrorism in Orangi Town area of Karachi. There has been an incident involving injury and loss of life on most days of the holy month of Muharram thus far and little sign that things are going to improve, with the death toll for the ...

[caption id="attachment_4210" align="alignright" width="347"] Lieutenant Commander Howard Leedham[/caption] Lieutenant Commander Howard Leedham, an ex-Royal Navy pilot, led a 25-strong force of specially-recruited Pakistani soldiers raiding Taliban camps, hunting down kidnap victims and detaining suspected al-Qaeda militants. Eight years after leaving the country, Lt Cdr Leeham has broken his silence to des ...

 By Peter A. Kirby Are miniaturized versions of the world’s largest ionospheric heater (HAARP) all around us modifying the weather? Have electromagnetic frequency generators been installed over major fault lines waiting to trigger massive earthquakes? Has our military developed a super weapon that can vaporize entire cities with lightning from the ionosphere? There is evidence that technology exists and is ...

bY Rasul Bakhsh Rais There are many ways leaders of a nation can isolate themselves from the rest of the world. It is not mere geography, terrain or lack of communication facility but a mindset. Afghanistan has been historically isolated for some of the above reasons, but today, doing so voluntarily or under foreign coercion would work against self-interest. No rational, practical leaders in the contemporar ...

Asif Haroon Raja Although the US has failed to win war in Afghanistan, it has to an extent succeeded in weakening Pakistan from within through covert war to be able to denuclearize it. As against the advice of India, the US desisted from applying direct strategy due to Pakistan’s nuclear capability. The US and its strategic partners therefore embarked upon a well-thought plan to gradually weaken Pakistan an ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi It is not a fairy tale. Not very long ago, Muharram was not the season of sectarian violence and mayhem. People of all sects would attend the Majalis, under the same roof, to pay homage to the great martyrs of Islam. While the Shias would move in processions, Sunnis would line up along the routes making a human protection shield and manage Sabeels. Rise of sectarian violence in Pak ...

By Ali Gharib With the ceasefire in Gaza holding, despite some early hiccups, Israeli and American officials are spinning the brief war by porting its lessons over to a potential conflict with Iran. The comparison was made most poignantly in a New York Times article on Friday where officials from Israel and the U.S. described the recent fighting as "something of a practice run for any future armed confronta ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Islamabad: Pakistan's teenaged rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for standing up against the terror outfit and pushing for education for girls, has been ranked sixth by Foreign Policy magazine in its top 100 global thinkers list. Aung San Suu Kyi, who continues her struggle for democracy in Myanmar, is ranked first on the list which also features former ...