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 ...

By Asif Haroon Raja 11.5 million files leaked by a whistle blower from an offshore company in Panama and published by a German newspaper has created ripples in the world. These are just the first batch released and many more are likely to be made public. Leaks are not a new phenomenon when seen in context with WikiLeaks and Snowden’s revelations. Nothing came out of the two earthshaking exposures and those ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although rampant corruption in Pakistan has continued by damaging the social and institutional fabric of the country, yet it has again come into limelight, after the massive leak of secret documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which were released on April 3, this year. The level of tax avoidance and money laundering, disclosed in the Panama Papers Leaks run into the several ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A massive leak of secret documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which were released on April 3, this year by the International Consortium of Invistigative Journalists (ICIJ) and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung allegedly show prominent world leaders, politicians and celebrities who hided millions in secret offshore tax shelters and used offshore accounts to evade tax law ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although in the past too, various agents of Indian secret agency RAW were arrested in Pakistan, yet the case of Kulbushan Yadav which has proved the presence of India’s espionage system needs special analysis. In this regard, on March 24, 2016, Pakistan’s security forces disclosed that they arrested the serving agent of RAW in Balochistan province. During investigation, RAW agent Kulbushan ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Terrorism which is inhuman has enveloped almost entire world in general and South Asia in particular. Pakistan is a country subjected to terrorism itself. Present military and civilian leadership is determined to unearth and root out the menace from its soil, because the survival of the country itself is at stake and the entire nation shares this resolve. However, various developments have ...

Ishaal Zehra I was basically the man for Mr Anil Kumar Gupta who is the joint secretary RAW and his contacts in Pakistan especially in the Baloch Student Organization, said Kulbhushan Yadav in his voluntarily confession. Yadav is the Indian spy held by the Pakistani authorities on 3rd March 2016 while infiltrating into Pakistan via Saravan border area of Balochistan with Iran. “My purpose was to hold meetin ...