Asif Haroon Raja North Waziristan (NW) has remained in focus of the US since 2010. No sooner our security forces were trying to regain their breaths after extremely arduous battles in Bajaur, Buner, Dir, Swat and South Waziristan and were trying to consolidate their gains, the US started pressurizing Pakistan that another major operation should be launched in NW. From early 2010 till April 2011, the crying ...

Asif Haroon Raja Currently North Waziristan (NW) is the major battleground for the US where Haqqani Network (HN) is based and has sanctuaries wherefrom it supposedly conducts cross border attacks on ISAF. For Pakistan, NW is not the only battleground to contend with, but there are several other regions more hotter than NW. Of all the battlegrounds, South Waziristan (SW) followed by Swat were the toughest si ...

Asif Haroon Raja Strangely enough, some are of the view that al-Qaeda is a fantasy created by the US and is not inexistence. This is simply outlandish. Al-Qaeda was founded by Palestinian revolutionary Abdullah Azzam in 1980s and Saudi national Osama bin Laden (OBL) became one of its members. This outfit took active part in Afghan Jihad against the Soviet forces. OBL came in the good books of CIA during the ...

Mohammad Jamil Dr. Shakil Afiridi was convicted on charges of treason for having accepted to work as a secret agent of CIA and for conducting an unauthorized fake polio vaccination campaign with a view to collecting DNA sample in a house in Abbottabad where CIA suspected Osama bin Laden (OBL) was living. He was awarded 33 years' imprisonment, which further exacerbated already strained Pak-US relations. US p ...

Mohammad Jamil The Memo Commission, constituted by the Supreme Court in December 2011, under the Chairmanship of Chief Justice Balochistan High Court Justice, Qazi Faiz Isa, has submitted a report to the Supreme Court. It concluded that the memorandum was real and was authored by Ex-Ambassador Husain Haqqani. It stated that he had violated the Constitution just to prove that the civil government in Islamaba ...

Mohammad Jamil The Memo Commission, headed by Chief Justice Balochistan High Court Justice Qazi Faiz Isa, has submitted its report to the Supreme Court, and according to its finding the memorandum was real and was authored by Hussain Haqqani former Pakistan ambassador to the US. The commission’s report has vindicated Army’s stand on the issue, and credit of course goes to General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and fo ...

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta all but ruled out an apology over an air strike last year that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and badly set back efforts to improve U.S.-Pakistani ties, saying it was "time to move on." Pakistan banned trucks from carrying NATO supplies into neighboring Afghanistan after the air strike, a move that costs U.S. taxpayers $100 million a month ...

By KIMBERLY DOZIER WASHINGTON — Say you're sorry. That's what the Pakistani government says it wants from the United States in order to jump-start a number of initiatives between the two countries that would help the hunt for al-Qaida in Pakistan and smooth the end of the war in Afghanistan. Pakistan wants the U.S. to apologize for a border incident in November 2011 in which the U.S. killed 24 Pakistani tro ...