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 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to one of the leading Indian news paper "Times of India" report of Agust 13,2009 Asma Jahangir, the Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) while delevring a lecture to the students on "Democracy and Human Rights in Pakistan: A dead-end" at Agha Khan university said that Pakistan Army is running foreign policy of the country and media cell is working to imp ...