By Asif Haroon Raja After the humiliating defeat of India by China in 1962, the Indians realized that if they ever have to fight against China again, they will need a better transport and logistics infrastructure. The Chicken Neck obstacle had to be removed and India needed to establish unfettered road, rail and-river right-of-way through East Bengal to North East Frontier and Arunachal. Creation of Banglad ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Academically, the significance of national interest lies in attaining the ability to achieve internal reforms in order to avoid foreign pressures of all sorts. It  distinct a state from others states  with respect to foreign policy, military power, religion, geographical advantages and disadvantages, natural resources, governing system, culturally,  judicial system, overall political envi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Gen Musharraf after coming to power through a military coup on October 12, 1999 decided to boost up and modernize electronic media by allowing foreign ownership in the name of freedom of expression. Private TV channels were given a free hand to broadcast their own programs and news in 2002. Till that time, apart from few private channels, PTV had remained the sole channel. Within few yea ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Indian spin masters in league with other adversaries of Pakistan are deeply involved in bringing a bad name to Pakistan and its premier institutions through a calculated psychological war since 2002. 9/11 had given an opportunity to India to conduct proxy war against Pakistan using Afghan soil. Covert war designed to destabilize Pakistan and force it to accept India as the regional hegem ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat Hindu politics and culture, dominated by the fundamentalist parties such as BJP, RSS, VHP, Shiv Sena and other similar groups which have been propagating Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) are feeling pleasure, because Indian elections based on media campaign against Islam and Muslims, enabled BJP hardliner Narendra Modi to get a land sliding triumph in the Indian elections 2014. Whereas the I ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja   Gen Musharraf after coming to power through a military coup on October 12, 1999 decided to boost up and modernize electronic media by allowing foreign ownership in the name of freedom of expression. Private TV channels were given a free hand to broadcast their own programs and news in 2002. Till that time, apart from few private channels, PTV had remained the sole channel. Within few ...

  By Zaheerul Hassan According to the source, Chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain was arrested in the morning  in London on charges of money laundering. The sources aslo confirmed that there are likely chance of investigation in the case of murder of Dr. Farooq.   He was s taken in to custody after a raid by Scotland Yard’s counter terrorism squad at his residence in North West. His reside ...

By Sajjad Shaukat When idea of initiating ‘Aman-Ki-Asha’ (Desire for peace) was presented, the exponents of this initiative argued that it will provide a platform to Pakistan to make peace and end hostilities with India. They explained that it will also facilitate resolution of core issues between India and Pakistan like Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek, and Water through a dialogue process. But, Aman-Ki-Asha wh ...