Their is a definite plan of  Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan plan to kill Osama Bin Laden informer Dr. Shakeel Afridi to bolster their image. Amir Mir The Pakistani Taliban may attack the central jail in Peshawar to abduct or kill Dr Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani physician who helped the Central Intelligence Agency track down and kill Osama bin Laden, according to Inter Services Intelligence. The deputy commander ...

Pakistan test fires Nuclear capable Hatf 4 Nasr Missile successfully. [caption id="attachment_1378" align="alignright" width="338" caption="Hatf 4 - Nasr"][/caption] Hatf IX NASR is a short-range surface to surface multi tube missile. With a range of 60km, it can carry nuclear warheads of appropriate yield, with high accuracy, and possesses shoot and scoot attributes. This quick response system addresses th ...

Dr Raja Muhammad Khan In 1948, while addressing Quetta Municipality, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah said that, "you know, I take special interest in Balochistan because, this province is my special responsibility, therefore I want that it should play its role in Pakistan affairs like other provinces." Unfortunately, this great leader died in the same year and his vision could not be implemented. Area wise ...

Muhammad Saleh Zaafir In a breakthrough development, Pakistan and United States have initiated negotiations on intricate bilateral issues, and Washington has designated Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides as its point-man for the talks while Federal Finance Minister Senator Dr Hafeez Shaikh will have interaction on behalf of Islamabad. Hafeez Shaikh and Thomas Nides have discussed course of action for th ...

Rustam Shah Mohmand Shakeel Afridi has only gone through a few months of incarceration. But “voices of dissent” have started creating ripples all over. Such is the overwhelming fear and awe regarding American might and the United States’ intrusive capability that questions are being raised about the timing of the order of conviction and the type of signals that it will convey to the West. As if the retreat ...

Air Cdre Khalid Iqbal (R) This day, fourteen year ago, emotionally charged voices of the team of nuclear scientists’ conducting the nuclear test in Chagi chanted ‘Naara-e- Takbeer, Allah-o- Akbar’. This was a declaration that hence forth Pakistan is a declared nuclear weapon capable state. Resource starved Pakistan had no ambition to go nuclear, but was compelled to do so. India exploded its first nuclear d ...

Ikram Ullah Khan Pakistan had its ambiguous but to an extent credible nuclear deterrence against India to counter New Delhi's conventional superiority even long before May 28, 1998. This ambiguous nuclear deterrence did work effectively to defuse past Indo-Pak, war like crises, notably Bras Tack Military Exercise 1987-88 and 199O Spring Crisis famously known as Zarb-e-Momin. Before May 1998 nuclear tests it ...

By Sajjad Shaukat    Political elite may follow timid policy, but it is not the job of statesmen to reflect such an ambiguous strategy. In these terms, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been acting upon an enigmatic approach. In this regard, during her recent visit to India, while speaking in Indian tune, Hillary Clinton allegedly that Pakistan had not taken enough action against Hafiz Saeed, Chief ...