By Faheem Belharvi At the beginning of the new millennium, we gather here in Boao, Hainan Province, in the People's Republic of China to review the economic and social challenges facing Asia. We recognize the importance of developing Asian perspectives on emerging issues and challenges facing Asia. We further recognize the need for sustained efforts to promote greater interdependence and economic integratio ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At this critical hour, when joint session of the Pakistani Parliament is debating over the 40 recommendations, made by the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) to review country's foreign policy in general and the new relationship with the United States in particular in the backdrop of deliberate attacks on Salala outposts which killed 24 Pakistani troops on November 26 last ...

By Rida Zaheer A long awaited campaign against stealers of intellectual property has been launched by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The countrywide crackdown on corporate users of unlicensed computer software would defiantly curb the menace of piracy and also attract foreign financiers to invest in the speedy growing IT field. It is an established fact that manufacturing companies in Brazil, Russia an ...

By Zaheerul Hassan After tabling resolution on Balochistan Issue on February 17, 2012, by US House of Representatives Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and supporting undercover NGO's mission at the occasion of 19th session of United Nation Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), have left no doubt that US and her ally India are making serious efforts to create an 'Independent Great Balochistan" (comprising of Iranian, Paki ...

Modern India is economically and strategically buoyant, and has every reason to feel confident as the 21st century progresses. So it's strange to think that this same confident place is developing an inferiority complex over China's military power. Never mind that New Delhi just announced a hefty 13 percent defense budget increase for 2012-13, or that the country is now the world's biggest importer of milit ...

By Zaheerul Hassan After tabling resolution on Balochistan Issue on February 17, 2012, by US House of Representatives Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and supporting undercover NGO's mission at the occasion of 19th session of United Nation Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), have left no doubt that US and her ally India are making serious efforts to create an 'Independent Great Balochistan" (comprising of Iranian, Paki ...

The Afghan government should release the approximately 400 women and girls imprisoned in Afghanistan for "moral crimes," Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The United States and other donor countries should press the Afghan government under President Hamid Karzai to end the wrongful imprisonment of women and girls who are crime victims rather than criminals. The 120-page report, "'I Had ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Differences between 26Th Indian Chief of Army Staff General VK Singh and government (govt) have been exposed when he tried to take actions against some of the most corrupt generals of the Army and simultaneously also went to the Supreme Court against the govt for correction of his "date of birth" . He is scheduled to retire at end of May this year. He wanted the govt to accept that he was ...