Pakistan Armed Forces pushed back Indian attack in September 1965.  We pay tribute and solute to the "Shudaha , Gazi and heroes  of  Pak  Forces . Major  Raja Aziz Bhatti Shaheed, NH, Air Cdr (then Sqn Ldr) ,  Muhammad Mahmud Alam, SJ and Air Marshal Malik Nur Khan Commander-in-Chief  Air Force, actions and Madam Noor  Jhan(late )  national songs  are unforgettable.  Our security forces are fighting against ...

By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_2813" align="alignright" width="300"] Shining India full of Corruption[/caption] Opposition benches of Indian parliament headed by the BJP-led NDA have asked PM Manmohan Singh to resign, due to his involvement in one of the leading corruption case of shining India.  The Comptroller and Auditor General’s reports (CAG Reports) have estimated “undue benefits” of over ...

Asif Haroon Raja [caption id="attachment_2798" align="alignright" width="245"] Map; North-Waziristan-Pakistan[/caption] After two years and seven months of sustained pressure, the US seems to have finally succeeded in cornering Pakistan and making it agree to launch an operation in North Waziristan (NW). Pak Army has been reluctant to do so because of its genuine constraints. Notwithstanding the numerous di ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...