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 ...

Air Cdre Khalid Iqbal (R) 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 Torkham and Chamman. American vulnerability of dependence on supply routes through Pakistan came to fore once America’s bluff about much trumpeted viability of Northern Distribu ...

By Saeed Qureshi The Arab Spring has gone into a mode of hibernation for the present. The advance of the much promising Arab Spring has been halted in Bahrain by [caption id="attachment_1255" align="alignright" width="236" caption="Middle East Issue need to be settled as per Palestinian Masses"][/caption] Saudi Arabia and in Syria by Iran. Paradoxically in Bahrain it is the Sunni minority that is ruling and ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglous Feith, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney [caption id="attachment_1251" align="alignright" width="285" caption="Flags involved in fighting war against terror"][/caption] backed by neo-cons media propagandists such as William Kristol and Max Boot were the ones who masterminded a plan to undermine Islam and incapacitate practicing Muslims, dubbed as fundam ...