[caption id="attachment_1304" align="alignright" width="361" caption="U.S. President Barack Obama makes opening remarks during the meeting on Afghanistan at the NATO summit in Chicago, May 21, 2012. U.S. Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, center, U.S. Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, far right, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe, U. ...

Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal As Chicago summit was on, western media carried reports that President Obama had declined a formal meeting with President of Pakistan until the supply routes were opened. Both Pakistan and America have exposed the crude fragility of their bilateral relations. America has indicated that it could go to any extent of arm twisting in the context of reopening of supply routes via T ...

Jawad Raza Khan Pakistan is undeniably under huge compression especially after discontinuing NATO supplies, since the dejected Salala incident. Experts are evaluating the situation on hourly basis, giving news and theories with pessimistic approach leaving audience hopeless (most of them). Bonn conference, Shamsi Air Base and Chicago moot all are discussed at length, but what is really unheard off is someth ...

Mohammad Jamil For quite some time, there have been targeted killings of people belonging to different ethnicities including Punjabi settlers in Balochistan. Few Baloch nationalist leaders were also either killed or reportedly disappeared. Whereas civil society acted as a silent spectator of targeting killings, some elements highlighted the murder of Baloch nationalist leaders, and what they called their en ...

Sultan M Hali Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are wreaking double havoc in Pakistan. Firstly, their incessant use by miscreants is resulting in the loss of precious human lives and limbs. Secondly, Pakistan is being blamed for alleged complicity in the transportation of raw material (Ammonium Nitrate) used in the preparation of the IEDs. A number of international bodies and think tanks have conducted re ...

Editor Pakistan Observer Turkish support and sincerity has never been in doubt but this became more vocal this week during visit to Pakistan by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the role played by Turkish President Abdullah Gul at the NATO Summit at Chicago. Gul not only backed Pakistan’s position on crucial issues at the summit but also, during bilateral talks with president Asif Ali Zardari, express ...

Asma Mujahid For years, there has been a perception among Indians that Pakistan is behind every terror attack and this was also shared by the police and the intelligence agencies while sane voices within India have always pointed towards over 200 major insurgent groups and militant organizations who are made up of Indians and are fighting for the cause of independence, autonomy and justice in various cases. ...

Anayat Ali Kargil: To make airbase in Kargil at Kurbathang, Indian Air Force needs 18000 kanal of land and to provide this land the District Administration called a meeting of Hill Council Kargil and various religious and political bodies of Kargil under the Chairmanship of the Minister for CA&PD and Transport Qamar Ali Akhoon. The Sarpanches, Panches and Namberdar of the affected villages also particip ...