by Umar Hayat "It's OK for strategy to be conducted by amateurs, but logistics requires professionals." With the deployment of their forces in Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11, the US and NATO have been transporting large quantities of logistics goods to Afghanistan for sustenance of their troops and conduct of operations. Since Pakistan afforded an easy access to Afghanistan, therefore, it was an obvio ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During his trip to India and Kabul in June, this year, by reviving old blame game, US Defence Secretary of State, Leon Panetta repeatedly stated that drone attacks would continue on safe havens of terrorists in Pakistan, while accusing the Haqqani network for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan. On the other side, Leon Panetta encouraged India to take a more active role in Afghani ...

Asif Haroon Raja Haqqani Network (HN) under Sirajuddin Haqqani based in North Waziristan (NW) was declared the most dangerous outfit when it hit military targets in Kabul several times with impunity on September 13, 2011. Murder of Burhanuddin Rabbani on September 20, 2011 blocked the peace effort. These attacks blew up the story spun by ISAF media team that lot of progress had been made on the military fro ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 21 July 2012, Foreign Sponsored elements are hit a security checkpost located in Pishukan area of Gwadar. In this militant attack, six security personnel were killed and four others injured when unknown terrorists fired rockets at security.  The local administration and Levies personnel reached the scene and shifted the injured to hospital.  The security forces cordoned off the area af ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam, ISI Chief is visiting Washington in the ongoing month of July. He will likely to attend Pak-US Strategic talks and will also hold talks with CIA Director David Petraeus on end of Illegal U.S. drone attacks, counter-terror cooperation and intelligence sharing. The question arises whether this interaction will US Drone Attacks Counter-Productivehelp in les ...

Dr Raja Muhammad Khan Global conspiracies are not new for the people and soil of Balochistan. Only there has been change of the actors. Nevertheless, the role remained the same. Today's conspiracies and interventions are more sophisticated and refined, compared to earlier ones. The neo-colonial powers like US are making use of soft power to change the perception of the people about their own Government(s). ...

Anza Kanwal Ever since its inception in 1947, Pakistan and the United States established cordial diplomatic relations with each other. However with the United States and Pakistan jointly fighting a war against common enemy, aiming at exterminating terrorism from the region, bilateral ties between the United States and Pakistan started weakening with Raymond Davis issue, in which a CIA contractor killed two ...

Mohammad Jamil Last month, India and the United States agreed to hold formal trilateral consultations with Afghanistan to explore opportunities to promote the war-torn country's development. "We agreed to move forward with a formal trilateral consultation among our three nations - India, Afghanistan and US," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said at a joint news conference with External Affairs Ministe ...