Asif Haroon Raja When George W Bush decided to invade Afghanistan, outwardly he pretended that the purpose was to avenge 9/11 attacks allegedly perpetrated by Osama bin Laden led al-Qaeda based in Afghanistan and to free the world from the menace of terrorism and to prevent 9/11 like attacks to recur. The US hidden motives were however altogether different. After regime change, [caption id="attachment_2357" ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With the full backing of the civil and military leadership in melting further ice between Pak-US ties, the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt-Gen Zaheerul Islam will visit America and will meet Director CIA General David Petraeus on August 2. [caption id="attachment_2227" align="alignright" width="316"] Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam , DGI[/caption] Notably, the scheduled ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 21 July 2012, Foreign Sponsored elements are hit a security checkpost located in Pishukan area of Gwadar. In this militant attack, six security personnel were killed and four others injured when unknown terrorists fired rockets at security.  The local administration and Levies personnel reached the scene and shifted the injured to hospital.  The security forces cordoned off the area af ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam, ISI Chief is visiting Washington in the ongoing month of July. He will likely to attend Pak-US Strategic talks and will also hold talks with CIA Director David Petraeus on end of Illegal U.S. drone attacks, counter-terror cooperation and intelligence sharing. The question arises whether this interaction will US Drone Attacks Counter-Productivehelp in les ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although apparently leaders of all the concerned countries expressed cooperation among themselves, emphasising stability in Afghanistan in various conferences held in the recent years, yet all are preparing for the new cold war which US intends to initiate against China and Russia. In this regard, during his Asia visit, on June 2, this year, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta disclosed in S ...

Asif Haroon Raja No sooner Barack Obama sat in the seat of president he started to growl at Pakistan. He stated that US forces would carry out unilateral action inside FATA whenever actionable intelligence was available. Propaganda war was stepped up to malign Pakistan’s institutions and drone war accelerated to fuel terrorism. Besides the US media and think tanks, every second US official used foul languag ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the Supreme Court of Pakistan has been hearing the cases of the missing persons of Balochistan by taking notice of the deteriorating law and order situation, the province has perennial been in the limelight. [caption id="attachment_2111" align="alignright" width="109"] Love Pakistani Balochistan[/caption] While hearing a petition, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on July 12 o ...

  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 ...