Asif Haroon Raja Obama worries about Pakistan’s disintegration and safety ofits nuclear warheads. In reality he and his team are least concerned aboutPakistan’s fragmentation since this has been among the many goals Washingtonhad perceived at the time of invading Afghanistan. Real concern is the nukesand not the fate of Pakistan. The US has already started seeing Pakistan as afailing state at the brink of c ...

  Asif Haroon Raja The US obsession for North Waziristan (NW) started in early2010. It was described as the major problem area for the ISAF where supposedly theentire leadership of al-Qaeda including Osama bin Laden (OBL) was headquarteredand involved in cross border terrorism. After the emasculation of al-Qaeda anddeath of OBL, threat perception suddenly shifted towards Haqqani Network (HN).It was all ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat Famous political thinkers agree that a number of internal factors, system of government, geographical location, economic output etc. play a key role in formulating the foreign policy of a country, while national interest has primary importance. But this thesis is quite opposite to Pakistan’s political and religious parties which have always criticised the external policy of the country ...

Opening of Nato supplies is neither a victory nor defeat of Pakistan or USA. We can definitely call it the victory of principle stand of Pakistan which it took after the Salala incident. It’s very unfortunate that the Americans law makers, media and even the high officials misread Pakistan and leveled baseless allegations. Instead of appreciating, Wall Street Journal published that it’s not diplomatic victo ...

Asif Haroon Raja War on terror initiated by the US in October 2001 is still continuing with no end in sight. In Afghanistan, the initiative is in the hands of the Taliban. The ISAF despite its massive superiority in men and material and in technology has become so vulnerable and fragile that it has decided to quit by end 2014. While ISAF under Gens McChrystal, Petraeus and Allen resorted to policy of brutal ...

  In today’s date suicide bombing is a curse familiar to all and is being used to terrorize people psychologically. Suicide bombing first originated as a political tool in the 1980s,in 1982, radical elements of the Shiite resistance in southern Lebanon joined together in the Bekka Valley to form Hezbollah. After that the trend picked up popularity among many terrorist groups as a way to achieve their m ...

[caption id="attachment_1950" align="alignright" width="133"] Nato Supply Routes through Pakistan[/caption] Amina Mazhar On the 4th of July 2012 the cabinet endorsed the decision of the DCC to reopen the NATO supplies that were closed for the last seven months when the US apologized for the Salala check post attack, which resulted in the martyrdom of our troops. This decision can have far reaching consequen ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With the formal apology from the United States, saying “sorry” as expressed by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in relation to Salala incident which killed 24 soldiers on November 26, last year at Army outpost in Pakistan, Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) on July 3, allowed reopening of the NATO supply route across Pakistan to Afghanistan. In this regard, Pakistan’s Foreign ...