By Faheem Belharvi "Backwards," "marginalised," "isolated," "insurgency-wracked:" the adjectives that most frequently precede any mention of Manipur — for all its stunning natural beauty — are overwhelmingly negative. And for many Manipuris, the concept of being "of India" in any meaningful sense is one they find difficult to entertain. "Why should I care about India when India does not care about me," says ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On April 15,2012 Taliban attacked US embassy and Afghan parliament in Kabul . Taliban fired rockets and assault rifles in the direction of the US Embassy, Taliban. Nato headquarters and other official buildings as gunfire and explosions rocked the heart of the Afghan capital. The sound of blasts and gunfire echoed through the city, as several attackers armed with rocket-propelled grenades ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 13 August 2012, Pakistan Parliament unanimously passed Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) recommendations on Pak-US relations despite. The credit goes to political and military leadership who took stands and provided the basis to the foreign office for revisiting Pakistan Foreign policy. Although, masses openly welcomed the parliamentarian move with regards to the Pak- ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The judicial commission of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, probing the memogate case censured the DG of Foreign Ministry Sohail Khan on April 12 this year, while questioning as to why the former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani had not informed the embassy regarding the misplacement of his blackberry phone-set. The commission criticised Sohail for not acting on the embassy's ...

By Professor Ali Sukhanver There will be time; there will be time; time to repent, time to regret, time to feel sorry and time to lament; but that will be too late. The people playing in hands of the conspirators would one day feel sorry for no one else but for their own-self, one day when they would realize that they had been brutally exploited against their own people, against their own religion and again ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The US considers it its birthright to lord over the whole world and expects others to accept its ascendency because it is the sole super power and economically and militarily the strongest nation on the earth. However, despite its unchallenged supremacy, it is also a reality that the US remains fearful of Israel and Jewish lobby within USA. The President of USA reputed as the strongest m ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Salute to our soldiers who laid their lives for our safety and security while performing sacred duties of defending their motherland on the world's highest war zone "Siachen". According to army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas, on 7 April 2012 between 3 am - 4 am an Avalanche hit 135 individuals including 124 soldiers and 11 civilians at Gayari sector near Siachen Glacier. Lt Col Tanvi ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While various subversive acts arranged by anti-Pakistan foreign elements continue in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and sectarian violence which also enveloped Gilgit-Baltistan recently, unrest has again engulfed the provincial capital of Sindh, Karachi where in the last three months, more than 300 people including several personal of Police and Rangers have been killed by the terrorists ...