Letter from Pakistan: How an unfair non-proliferation regime undermines nuclear security

By Zahir Kazmi [caption id="attachment_2794" align="alignright" width="302"] Protest Against Indian Nuclear Security[/caption] In a September 1967 speech, V.C. Trivedi, the Indian Ambassador to an early UN arms control effort known as the Eighteen Nations Committee on Disarmament, said that developing countries could tolerate nuclear weapons apartheid, but not an atomic apartheid that prevented them from at ...

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Conspiratorial Paranoia

[caption id="attachment_2790" align="alignright" width="241"] Map of Pak-Afghanistan[/caption] By Brig (R) Sher Shah Mr Zahid Hussain’s, article “Conspiratorial Paranoia” in Dawn of August 28, is a good piece of reflection of our confused hypothesisation of internal threats. Mr Zahid has made three points; firstly, the retired army generals while on talk shows profess more of foreign hands in militant threa ...

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Need for Dialogue with the Haqqani Network

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past few years, a number of regional and international conferences held with a view to bringing stability and peace in Afghanistan before the foreign troops complete withdrawal from that country in 2014. Another major purpose of these forums was also to conclude a peace deal with the Afghan militants. After the Tokyo conference on Afghanistan, held in earlier July, this year, effort ...

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Our cultural and spiritual ethos

Mohammad Jamil    Quaid-i-Azam had envisioned Pakistan to be a modern progressive state, rooted in the eternal values of our religion and at the same time responsive to the imperatives of constant change. In his address before the Constituent Assembly on 11th August 1947, he outlined his vision about Pakistan, and vowed to fight corruption, bribery and black marketing, and asseverated not to tolerate jobber ...

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India should not trust Iran

We tend to be emotional in discussing our relations with Iran with deep nostalgic references to the civilisational links with Iran. Iranian leaders and analysts too talk of this civilisational relationship, but without any sign of nostalgia or emotion. B. Raman The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has gone to Teheran to attend the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. His participation in the summit will pr ...

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Rohingya Muslim massacre

Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan There live approximately 800,000 Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, forming 4% of the Burma’s total population. Contrary to this official data of Myanmar Government, neutral sources claims that, the total Muslim population is more than double the government estimates. It is worth noting that, Burmese Muslims, commonly known as Rohingya Muslims, settled in this part of the world in 7th and 8 ...

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Where is Mullah Omar?

[caption id="attachment_2765" align="alignright" width="224"] Mullah Omer[/caption] Letter to Editor As the UnitedStates has issued a warning to its citizens travelling to Pakistan in the wakeof possible terror threats in the country, the top American general, JohnAllen, who is commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in anarticle published on Tuesday that the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, wa ...

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Pak Armed Forces & War on Terror

By Zaheeul Hassan [caption id="attachment_2759" align="alignright" width="334"] Brave Pak Army[/caption] On August 14,  2012 Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani as Chief guest addressed a large number of people from all segments of society ,  senior serving and retired civil and military officials in parade ground of  Pakistan Military Academy  at the occasion of sixty fifth Independenc ...

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