By  Suhab Quershi Hindustan Construction Company-HCC- executing 330 Megawatt Kishen Ganga Hydro Electric Power Project has made life hell for the people residing in the dozens of villages here in North Kashmir's Bandipora district, some 59 Kilometers from the summer capital Srinagar of Jammu and Kashmir state. From destruction of roads, buildings and drains to recession of water resources, HCC has trained t ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the Supreme Court of Pakistan took notice of the missing persons in the country, there is much hue and cry on the issue. On March 7 this year, even the Senate unanimously passed a resolution, expressing deep concern over the issue of disappeared persons. In this context, on June 2011, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Javed Iqbal had condemned the role of NGOs ...

By Brig Asif Haroon Raja Muslim Kashmiris in Indian held Kashmir (IHK) were quietly undergoing the injustices and high-handedness of India's handpicked Kashmiri leaders and atrocities of Indian security forces for over four decades. Their patience broke down when state elections in 1987 were blatantly rigged. It triggered mass agitation and within two years street protests turned into armed resistance. Indi ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although political manipulation is very common even in the western countries where the rival politicians always try to exploit any issue against one another for gaining the sympathies of general masses, yet they do not act upon such a practice at the cost of national interests. But it is our misfortune that Pakistan's political parties leave no stone unturned in targeting the security agen ...

By Zaheerul Hassan American unilateral operation in Abbottabad has opened the flood gates of criticism for Pakistan from all quarters. An already hostile international media has found it all convenient to unleash their most venomous war against Pakistan, Pak Army, ISI and Pakistan's Nuclear Programme. Most of the online International Newspapers (with the exception of Arab and neutral countries) highly criti ...

By Washington Times President Obama offered to give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu military assistance for a strike on Iran. The catch is, Israel must delay action until after the November election. That's according to several major news outlets which ran reports based on unnamed sources from Monday's White House meeting. Whether or not this report is accurate, it underscores the power dynamics b ...

By Alex Rodriguez As the U.S. and Pakistan struggle to patch up frayed ties, plans for a Pakistani-Iranian natural gas pipeline further threaten the fragile partnership. Pakistan desperately needs new energy sources and has made it clear that it plans to forge ahead with the pipeline to bring in natural gas from Iran, despite warnings from the U.S. that Islamabad could be hit with economic sanctions if it f ...

By Ashraf Mumtaz LAHORE - Foreign countries and agencies strongly opposed to the Gwadar Port and determined to drive a wedge between Pakistan and Iran are involved in terrorist activities in Balochistan, military sources say. They told TheNation that Gwadar Port had the capacity to bring about economic prosperity in the impoverished Balochistan and this was precisely what the enemies could not tolerate. Sim ...