By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_2813" align="alignright" width="300"] Shining India full of Corruption[/caption] Opposition benches of Indian parliament headed by the BJP-led NDA have asked PM Manmohan Singh to resign, due to his involvement in one of the leading corruption case of shining India.  The Comptroller and Auditor General’s reports (CAG Reports) have estimated “undue benefits” of over ...

Asif Haroon Raja [caption id="attachment_2798" align="alignright" width="245"] Map; North-Waziristan-Pakistan[/caption] After two years and seven months of sustained pressure, the US seems to have finally succeeded in cornering Pakistan and making it agree to launch an operation in North Waziristan (NW). Pak Army has been reluctant to do so because of its genuine constraints. Notwithstanding the numerous di ...

[caption id="attachment_2790" align="alignright" width="241"] Map of Pak-Afghanistan[/caption] By Brig (R) Sher Shah Mr Zahid Hussain’s, article “Conspiratorial Paranoia” in Dawn of August 28, is a good piece of reflection of our confused hypothesisation of internal threats. Mr Zahid has made three points; firstly, the retired army generals while on talk shows profess more of foreign hands in militant threa ...

[caption id="attachment_2765" align="alignright" width="224"] Mullah Omer[/caption] Letter to Editor As the UnitedStates has issued a warning to its citizens travelling to Pakistan in the wakeof possible terror threats in the country, the top American general, JohnAllen, who is commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in anarticle published on Tuesday that the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, wa ...

By Zaheeul Hassan [caption id="attachment_2759" align="alignright" width="334"] Brave Pak Army[/caption] On August 14,  2012 Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani as Chief guest addressed a large number of people from all segments of society ,  senior serving and retired civil and military officials in parade ground of  Pakistan Military Academy  at the occasion of sixty fifth Independenc ...

  [caption id="attachment_2756" align="alignright" width="254"] COAS -Pakistan Army[/caption]           By Sajjad Shaukat An article by Khaled Ahmed under the caption, “General Kayani’s War”, published in The Express Tribune on August 26, 2012 is no more than a fictitious story against Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. While showing illogical approach, the writer has tried to ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan  The U.S. military said on Monday it was disciplining U.S. troops over two incidents that provoked outrage in Afghanistan early this year, one involving a video depicting Marines urinating on corpses and another over burned copies of the Koran. The military said the punishments were administrative, which could include actions such as a reprimand, reduction in rank or forfeiture of ...

By Scott Malone and Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac was near hurricane force as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and was expected to make landfall in the New Orleans area seven years after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Isaac's swirling winds, rain and storm surge could pose a major test of New Orleans' new flood control systems and reinforced levees. Forecasts ...