Strategic Culture Foundation The Central Intelligence Agency cobbled together the forerunner of the present Muslim jihadist terrorist network in the late 1970s to battle Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Throughout the next three decades, the CIA continued to maintain links with the jihadist groups, using them as allies for certain operations and attacking them when America’s «commitment» to the «war on terrori ...

Farooq Yousaf The latest rain of Hellfire missiles fired off CIA-operated drones on targets in Waziristan, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), offer Pakistan another excuse to protest the series of attacks that have killed some three dozen people between August 19 to August 24. The latest string of these multiple strikes on Friday, August 24, left at least 18 people dead, reportedly including ...

Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal Recently launched report of the fact-finding mission to Balochistan by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) stirs up as much anxiety as it radiates a ray of hope. It is too early to say that Balochistan is on its way to recovery; however it will not be an overstatement if we say that it is back from the brink. This is not to undermine the seriousness of the heinous e ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At this critical juncture when Pakistan has continuously been facing target killings, attacks on places of worship, bomb blasts and burning of houses due to growing menace of religious extremism, sectarian and ethnic divisions, needs to spread the values of Sufism among the people. Basically, Sufis love Allah and therefore, love of humanity is the genesis of their doctrine. Sufis like Muhi ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Though the relations between Pakistan and India began in disaster in 1947, Indian invasion and brute occupation of neighboring Jammu Kashmir and its threatening of Pakistan have further “cemented” the awkwardness of ties between two newly freed nations. Suffering from incurable superiority complex, India deliberately strained relations with almost on a permanent basis. The process ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi As we enter the second year of 9/11's second decade, anxieties about terrorism in the United States haven't declined — even though no Islamist terrorist has been able to detonate even the simplest of bombs in the United States, even though there has been no sizable attack in the country, even though Osama bin Laden has been expunged, and even though an American's chance of being ki ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_2848" align="alignright" width="300"] Indo-Pak Foriegn Ministers met in 2012[/caption] During the visit of India’s External Affairs Minister S M Krishna to Pakistan, Islamabad and New Delhi signed on September 9, this year, an agreement of liberalised visa regime and a memorandum of understanding on cultural exchanges, in addition to agreeing on new cross-Line of Co ...

Posted Zaheerul Hassan YOU HAVE TO LOVE HIM... A MUST READ... [caption id="attachment_2844" align="alignright" width="300"] Robins Williams[/caption]   HE MADE THIS SPEECH IN NEW YORK Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says 'I love New York’ in Arabic. You gotta love Robin Williams........Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Am ...