By Zaheerul Hassan According to a 2004 study by the World Bank Institute, $1 trillion is paid every year in bribes worldwide. Though, many countries evolved various rules to carry out the accountability of politicians, bureaucrats and military officials for blocking of bribe, but unfortunately the upward trend of getting illegal benefits have been noticed by the International Transparency Organization. In t ...

By Zaheerul Hassan President Obama stated a broad new military strategy yesterday, one that refocuses the armed forces on threats in Asia and the Pacific region, continues a strong presence in the Middle East, but makes clear that US ground forces will no longer be large enough to conduct prolonged, large-scale counterinsurgency campaigns like those in Iraq and Afghanistan. In an unusual appearance in the P ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Whether, Hussani Haqqani and its nominated law counsel wins or not but "memo case" has uncovered the real faces of many anchors, journalists and politicians. The head of the Haqqani's counsel "Asma Jahangir" who always claimed as human rights activist now refused to continue acting as counsel of Haqqani after losing the case in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. While expressing reservation o ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Finally, President Barack Obama has signed a $662 billion national defence authorisation bill which freezes $700 million in aid to Pakistan until Islamabad gives assurances of helping it fight against the spread of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). After signing the bill Obama stated, "I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Indo-US-Israeli nexus has all along been vying to denuclearize Pakistan but its nefarious designs have been thwarted by our armed forces and the ISI. Apart from overt and covert machinations to achieve their sinister objective, propaganda was used as a tool to tarnish the image of the two institutions and to creat an impression that Pak nukes were unsafe and liable to fall into wrong han ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Ever since the troop drawdown plan announced by Obama in December 2010 staring July 2011 and completing in December 2014, I have been mentioning that the senior military leadership of USA and other power centres with vested interests may not stick to the timetable and may extend the stay. A cold war is gong on between Obama administration and Pentagon. Gen David Petraeus disagreed with O ...

By Professor Ali Sukhanver If remained unsolved and unresolved, the memo-gate issue may prove fatally catastrophic and lethally disastrous for the hard-earned and ever-dreamed democratic system in Pakistan. Though time will decide whether this issue is a conspiracy against democracy or an evil plot against the military institutions of Pakistan but one thing is very much clear that some of our own people are ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Role of intelligentsia has never been negated in any type of war. During World Wars (WW) I & II, the allies remained successful in number of operations because of timely receipts of information and clandestine operations. However, after WW-II U.S launched agency CIA against KGB.During Cold War period both the agencies remained dagger drawn against each other. Anyhow, Pakistan felt a t ...