Posted by Faheem Belharvi Jimmy Carter is right here that “As long as Gaza remains isolated the situation in and around Gaza will remain volatile." He further adds that” Israel's leaders don't want a Palestinian state, question arises here that if isolated Gaza has to remain volatile and Israel will not allow a free Palestinian state then how can be the peace possible. Jimmy explained certain aspects of pea ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi 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 ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Do we really need guns and cannons, drones and bombs particularly when we don’t have sufficient milk and food for our innocent children, medicines for our ailing patients and books for our deserving students? Certainly not; we will have to decide what we need and what we not. The wrong choice of needs and necessities is always the basic flaw that leads a society to a catastrophic d ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Balochistan continues to simmer and has reached a boiling point because of breakdown of law and order and absence of governance by the provincial government and has the portent of turning catastrophic. Spree of target killings continues and in Khuzdar incidents of target killings are taking pace almost daily. Cruel practice of Wani (a custom to give girls in marriage to settle disputes) ...

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 ...