By Sajjad Shaukat After the massive leak of the secret documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, the question of rampant corruption in Pakistan has again come into limelight, as the disclosed papers include the names of several Pakistanis, including the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and some other politicians who made millions of dollars of investments in the offshore companies and thus, were invo ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned historians agree that in the post-Napoleonic era, the Treaty of Chaumont which was made in March 1814, by Great Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria…even the Vienna Settlement (1815) and various conferences of the Concert of Europe (1815-22) were used for the purpose of suppressing nationalism and liberalism everywhere in Europe and restoring the status quo…sealed the triumph of r ...

By Sajjad Shaukat It has been learnt through credible online sources that Engineer Mohammad Khan, the 1st Advisor and a close friend of Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah has been arrested by Afghan forces/agencies for alleged links with the Islamic State group also known as Daish, ISIS or ISIL. Information strongly suggests that Daish has penetrated even in high ranking Afghan government officials as ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Proactive, reactive, offensive and counter intelligence operations are obligatory elements of well comprehensive thoughtful intelligence plan of proxy wars. Usually, the plans of such nature in proxy wars are being executed through organized intelligence network in the rival countries. Execution of covert intelligence operations while using the invisible state’s sponsored actors really br ...

Asif Haroon Raja Once the Army of British East India Company under Lord Clive defeated Siraj ud Daula in the battle of Plassey in 1757 with the help of infamous Mir Jaffar, the British in collusion with the Hindus oppressed the Muslim Bengalis and in a matter of 50 years they converted the entire class of their nobility into serfs and upgraded the Hindus from serfs to masters. Bengal which was the richest p ...

Ishaal Zehra No matter how much exaggerated claims India makes about the personal rapport of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the US President Barack Obama, truth remains apparent as luminosity in the dark. Earlier it was the statement of president Obama who, at the end of the recent Nuclear Security Summit, talked about India and Pakistan in the same breath, bracketing them together. Obama desired ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Russia’s Defense Ministry hosted the fifth Moscow Conference on International Security, held in Moscow on April 27-28, 2016 with the participation of high military officials and experts from around the world to discuss the fight against terrorism and other pressing security challenges. Besides, security problems of Asian-Pacific region, war and peace problems in Europe as well as global se ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is credited for reversing the security situation during his extended six years tenure. Soon after he took over from Gen Pervez Musharraf as COAS in November 2007, he tasked the ISI under Lt Gen Shuja Pasha to regain lost intelligence space in FATA that had been surreptitiously captured by CIA and FBI by establishing outposts and creating TTP. He reverted army off ...