Momina Ashier Pakistan and India, the only two nuclear states of South Asia shares a relationship of conflict and cooperation. For the past three decades, India and Pakistan have been engaged in a nuclear rivalry that is both a symptom and a cause of their bilateral discord. India’s decision to acquire nuclear weapons and demonstrate its nuclear weapons capability in 1974 resulted in the Pakistani adoption ...

F Z Khan Reports suggest that Pakistan and the US will be pushing for a much-talked about agreement end of this week on the reopening of vital supply routes for US-led foreign forces fighting a Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Currently talks are deadlocked over taxes and additional transit fee Islamabad is demanding for each truckload of Nato supplies crossing its border into Afghanistan. Washington, how ...

Maimuna Ashraf The US Congress and Obama Administration both are yet again raising voices for the sanctuary of a jailbird, as before they have shown this motion for Raymond Davis. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor has been convicted of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping CIA to pin down Osama Bin Laden’s location under the cover of fake vaccination drive. According to a 2002 health depar ...

Dr Raja Muhammad Khan In an astounding revelation, Major General Obaidullah Khan, the Inspector General Frontier Corps Balochistan has said that there are approximately twenty foreign spying agencies actively involved in the destabilization of Balochistan. General Obaid revealed these facts on June 2, 2012, in a Press Conference held in FC Headquarters, Quetta. Indeed, Pakistan has been expressing its conce ...

Khalid Iqbal These days Pakistan’s relations with America are going through an interesting phase. The election season in both the countries is casting its shadows on bilateral dealings. The leadership of the two countries is playing to the public sentiment, consumed by rhetoric on non-issues. Narratives and counter-narratives are making the landscape hazy, yet discernible. America that is generally forthcom ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat At this sensitive moment, when Pak-US diplomats are negotiating a complex issue of restoring the NATO supply routes across the country to Afghanistan, while some American top officials have claimed that both the countries are near to sign an agreement, US has accelerated drone attacks on Pakistan. In the last 11 days, CIA-operated pilotless aircraft killed more than 30 people in North Waz ...

Guru Piarey Jio, Across the world next month, a lot of Sikhs will be getting together and marching, shouting slogans, making speeches and holding up Placards saying “Sikhs want Justice”, “India stop killing Sikhs” and “Freedom is our Birthright”. Conversely, many young, educated, practising Sikhs born and brought up in the West who are leading lights in their communities will be shunning these same demonstr ...

 Asif Haroon Raja The secular lobby in Pakistan tries to highlight theimportance of international community, international institutions andinternational laws, and above all the role of sole super power as well as India.It never tires lecturing that without compromising with the tyrannical andunjust practices of the powerful nations, Pakistan will not survive. Ourpresent government which is totally subservie ...