Dr Raja Muhammad Khan Contrary to the common misperception that Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a counter weight to the NATO, the sounding from the forum is that, it is a regional organisation having no military motives to pursue. Its charter highlights the principles of non-alliance and non-confrontation. China, the initiator of this organisation, still considers itself as a regional power. Bein ...

Mohammad Jamil Former Ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani's recent article carried by The Washington Post captioned 'My real crime: Standing up for US-Pakistan relations' is reflective of his craftiness and confirms his disloyalty to Pakistan. Though he claims to have rendered meritorious services, his performance as ambassador to the US has been a dismal failure, as the relations between Pakistan and the ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat At this sensitive moment, when Pak-US diplomats were negotiating a complex issue of restoring the NATO supply routes across Pakistan to Afghanistan in wake of the heightening political noise inside the country, US accelerated CIA-operated drone attacks, killing more than 50 people in [caption id="attachment_1858" align="alignright" width="253"] drone attack[/caption] North Waziristan. ...

 M. Zaidi OVER the years, studies have suggested that an extensive military response to terrorism may temporarily increase terrorist activity rather than cause it to decrease permanently. Walter Enders and Todd Sandler in the American Political Science Review (‘The Effectiveness of Anti-Terrorism Policies: A VAR-Intervention Analysis’) did a serial time review of US military measures against Libya. They fou ...

Dr Raja Muhammad Khan The prominent Pakistani human rights activist and former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ms Asma Jehangir has accused ISI and Pakistan Army for an alleged planning to get her killed by making use of Jihadi elements, operating in the country. She revealed that the information of this planning reached to her through highly reliable sources. During a private televisi ...

Bassam Javed Pakistan’s problematic relationship with US has sailed into a fresh controversy after a tribal court gave 33 years long prison term to Pakistani doctor, Shakeel Afridi. He was convicted for his terrorism based linkages with Mangal Bagh led Lashkar e Islam besides his treasonous act of covertly facilitating CIA fake vaccination campaign designed to collect DNA sample of Osama Bin Laden and his f ...

   By Sajjad Shaukat A renowned political thinker Morgenthau opines that foreign policy of a country should be moulded in accordance with the circumstances of time and place. But it is most surprising that while serving at a key post of the sole superpower, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has always reflected confused policy, shown through his illogical and contradictory statements. [caption id="attachmen ...

  Asif Haroon Raja Notwithstanding Gen Muharraf’s weaknesses and several blunders he committed during his nine years rule, one has to admit that his governance and management of state affairs were relatively much better than what we have seen in the last four and a half years. Law and order as well as overall security were not as bad during his time. Between 2004 and 2007, only10 drone [caption id="att ...