F Z Khan One remembers Indian intelligence agency RAW’s founder chief Vikrum Suud’s article he wrote some years back in which he suggested to the Indian government and military establishment to shun the popular-among-Indian-strategists idea of launching an offensive through its armour divisions from Rajasthan’s side in order to ripe apart the Pakistani Punjab and Sindh entering from Bahawalpur and penetrati ...

Faheem Belharvi War on terror has brought Pakistan immense suffering and ignominy. Death of Osama on May 2, 2011, at Abbottabad, does not matter because of the fact that al-Qaeda has already chartered. In this context, US war on terror in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 catastrophe, leading to developments such as American invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, which is now being waged on global and regional ...

Dr. Khurshid Alam An year ago, on 2nd May the most wanted man, Osama, was killed by US marines in Abbottabad. It was one of the extremely guarded and secretive missions ever carried out by US. The air borne attack took less than one hour to be completed. Today Osama is as much controversial person, as he was during his life time. To many he was a dedicated international holy warrior. To others he was the fa ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton on May 6, 2012 (Sunday) arrived in Kolkata on a three-day visit to India. The set agenda of meeting is: (one) to press India on Iran oil imports, (two) Indo-US dialogue on Afghanistan, (three) India to take up US’ U-turn on Saeed with Hillary Clinton, (four) meeting West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for on foreign direct investmen ...

[toggle title="Pakistan news"]Pakistan,CIA, India,Karachi, USA[/toggle]By Sajjad Shaukat Although intermittent terror-acts such as target killings, suicide attacks, hostage-takings, intense exchange of firing between two ethnic groups and workers of political parties in wake of setting buildings, shops, vehicles on fire and sectarian violence have continued in [caption id="attachment_869" align="alignright" ...

  zaheerul Hassan Russia’s top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike on U.S.-led NATO missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington goes ahead with its controversial plan to build a missile shield.   President Dmitry Medvedev said last year that Russia will retaliate militarily if it does not reach an agreement with the United States and NATO on the missile defe ...

Peter Bergen A year ago Tuesday, Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces inside a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. When President Obama announced the news, he called the death of bin Laden "the most significant achievement to date" in the war against al-Qaida. [caption id="attachment_854" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Osama Hidout in Abbotabd Pakistan"][/caption] The decade-long search for bin ...

Asif Haroon Raja PML-N leaders are in ferocious mood and have threatened convicted PM Gilani to accept Supreme Court (SC) verdict and quit or else face a movement which will throw out his government. Nawaz has indulged in suchlike tantrums in the past as well but time has proven that his jibes have been politically motivated and not meant to unseat the government. In our terminology, it was a Nura-Kushti (f ...