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 ...

Burhanuddin Hasan Sorry is the most common word in English language to express regret over any inconvenience caused by one person to the other. If two persons walking on a street bump against each other both say sorry and go their way. It is just a courtesy, and not an expression of serious concern or apology. There are many other words in English which can be used if one wants to seriously apologize for ki ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although apparently leaders of all the concerned countries expressed cooperation among themselves, emphasising stability in Afghanistan in various conferences held in the recent years, yet all are preparing for the new cold war which US intends to initiate against China and Russia. In this regard, during his Asia visit, on June 2, this year, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta disclosed in S ...

[caption id="attachment_2158" align="alignright" width="640"] Haqqani Group of Taliban[/caption] 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 ...

Dr. Ahsan ur Rahman Khan The grasp of the realities of the US drone war strategy, thus attained, signifies the need for the answer to two key questions. First question relates to the change in US culture, whereby majority of US public is supporting the US acts of brutalities, like this drone war strategy; and the second relates to the objective: (1) how is it that the societal texture of US, once renowned t ...

Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal During the Obama years, at least two persons out of his Afghanistan team accurately and correctly perceived the nature, gravity and complexity of the Afghanistan conflict and were eager to find a respectable way to get America out of the fiasco. These were Richard Holbrooke and General Stanley McCrystal. Former could not take the stress and died while urging an end to the conf ...

A.G Noorani A WEEK’S visit to Kashmir revealed the same deep sense of alienation among the people, the same system of repression, a continuing political vacuum, and a culture of impunity and denial of accountability, all capped by a feckless Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who never ceases to demonstrate his utter unfitness for the office. Maturity was demonstrated after a fire razed to the ground on June 25 a ...