By Sajjad Shaukat It is in response to the article of Rabia Ahmed, published in 'Pakistan Today' on January 16, 2012 under the caption, Why this army? In her illogical criticism of Pakistan Army, Rabia Ahmed has also shown contradictory approach. At the same time, she has, in other words, realized that army should exist, but rejected its need. In this regard, in the article, while expressing views about 196 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to news reports The Bangladesh Army has foiled a coup plot by certain national serving and retired army officers to overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and have arrested two former officers. The "heinous conspiracy" was unearthed last month and two retired officers - Lt Col Ehsan Yousuf and Major Zakir - have been arrested while a serving officer Major Syed Mohammad Ziaul Huq ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Piteously, our selfish and myopic leaders played into the hands of Pakistan's adversaries and willingly allowed them to interfere in domestic affairs of the country and to weaken it from within, naively thinking that they were Pakistan's friends and war on terror was in common interest of USA as well as of Pakistan. They refused to wake up from their slumber despite frantic warnings give ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Finally, on January 13, 2012 Ministry for Information and Broadcasting released the report of a judicial commission investigating the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad whose body was found last year on May 31 near Rasul Head works in Mandi Bahauddin, 80 miles south-east of Pakistan's capital Islamabad. In this connection some local media anchors toed the Western line and tried to implic ...

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 ...