Bassam Javed Strange as it may sound but CIA did publicly reveal complete identity of one of its moles in Pakistan who helped it home on to Osama's abode. Whether his revelation was done by mistake or by design, Dr. Shakil Afridi who placed his allegiance to a foreign intelligence agency before the interests of his own country was just arrogantly dumped away by CIA when his services were no longer required. ...

By: Sohail Parwaz Writers Note: This article was written on the request of SAARC Writers Forum’s authorities in India and was appreciated by them as well, however, for the reasons best known to them, they showed inability to publish it, later on. Terrorism: An Outcome of 9/11? At times, one is failed to understand that how come it’s possible that a relatively safer world, just overnight, turn out to be a TN ...

By:  Sohail Parwaz The Real Causes and Types of Terrorism Ironically, the world always criticise and condemn any act of violence, and term it as an act of terrorism without any hesitation, without looking into its reasons and causes which could be political, strategic, individuals’ psychological disorders, group psychological and sociological syndromes and above all socio-economic causes but merely pinning ...

By:  Sohail Parwaz The History of Terrorism Almost every dictionary conveys fear, horror, fright, dread, shock, panic and alarm as the meanings of terror but has failed to further elaborate it as to what could be those occasions or events which, if provide reasons to cause fear, horror, panic or shock, could qualify that specific event as an act of terror. The history shows many such events where an armed r ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat In the last few weeks, conflicting are coming about the success of Pak-US negotiations in order to reach an agreement in connection with the reengagement of Pakistan with America as last year, Pakistan closed ground supply routes through its territory to Afghanistan to protest a cross-border NATO air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. On June 12, this year, Pentagon Spokesman Georg ...

Ikram Ullah Khan A debate is observable at various public forums that Pakistan is a nuclear power that has insufficient electricity to fulfill its domestic needs. In addition to this why it is continuously investing in its nuclear weapons program (missiles tests) rather than to invest in development sector. Ironically, a number of Pakistani people have been influenced with this debate and rising questions e ...

Dr Raja Muhammad Khan For almost a year now, the infamous memogate remained as an ambiguity, baffling the nation. After a thorough scrutiny of the case in the Supreme Court, it was handed over for a detailed investigation to a Judicial Commission. The commission comprising three provincial chief justices; Balochistan High Court's Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa (head of commission), Justice Mushir Alam, Chief J ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat On December 15, last year, in his reply to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the memogate case, the Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani stated that the memo was a reality, and a conspiracy was being hatched against the army and national security. Ex-Chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha also submitted his reply, stating that Mansoor Ija ...