By Sajjad Shaukat                  Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on April 24, this year in Brussels in a meeting hosted by the US Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at easing tensions over border disputes and the stalled peace process. Recently, tension arose between Pakistan and Afghanistan when Kabul blamed Islamabad for mortar attacks and c ...

By Rida Zaheer The deaths of three British soldiers were announced by NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force in Kabul on 30 April 2013. But the NATO authorities did not revealed the nationalities of the victims, in line with coalition policy. The soldiers from the Royal Highland Fusiliers died  when their  vehicle was hit on a routine patrol in the district of Nahr-e Saraj, part of the southe ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Today's evening is dedicated to our martyrs, veterans and soldiers who remain steadfast and resolutely committed in the defence of our sacred motherland. Regardless of the cost, our spirits are high and our determination unwavering. The nefarious designs of our enemy, may it be internal or external, will never succeed and we shall eventually prevail. I can say this with complete co ...

By Major Muhammad Ijaz Khattak On 22 March 13, I have observed a common but very encouraging phenomenon. A plethora of writings are present on motivational subjects, what inspired me to express my heartfelt happiness was a simple, shinning and contented smile on face of two sons of my unit hero, Major Ehsan (shaheed). Aarish and Basil, natty among their age mates, yet secured 90% and above in their 3rd and ...

By Zaheerul Hassan  A car bomb exploded outside the French embassy in Tripoli early morning. In this blast two French guards injured and one corner of the embassy building damaged.  After the death of late Libyan leader Qaddafi, It is the first major attack on a Western target in Libya since the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghaz.  The blast destroyed part of the compound wall and shattered w ...

Letter to Editor The Lal Masjid “Operation Silence” was meant to silence the ‘Red Mosque’ loudspeakers, and it did silence them for the time being, but, as the time passes, that silence is turning into heat. Musharraf is now in custody and every gun has turned its barrel at him. It has timed with the release of Lal Masjid Commission report that implicates Musharraf for the whole saga. As the turncoats have ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat  Recently tension arose between Pakistan and Afghanistan when a spokesman of Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs blamed Islamabad for continuation of mortar attacks and construction of security wall inside Afghanistan including deployment of Pakistani soldiers across the Pak-Afghan border. While, hundreds of Afghan university students in Jalalabad took to the streets on April 15, this y ...

By Jim Marshall Term limits preclude Hamid Karzai from seeking re-election in the Afghan presidential election slated to occur one year from today (parliamentary elections will follow in 2015). So, for the first time since 2001, Afghanistan will soon have a new chief executive along with a new parliament, a leadership transition that has immense implications for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, yet one that ...