By Sajjad Shaukat During the election campaign, the militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated groups who had accelerated their terror-activities to sabotage the elections 2013 in Pakistan failed in their nefarious designs as they did not want to see democracy to be flourished in the country. TTP which had accepted responsibly for terror-assaults on the election-sites, especially ...

By Rida Zaheer Pakistani lawyers who had filed a petition in the judges' detention case has withdrawn their complaint against former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf. It was decided by  Advocate Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Ghumman a day before the hearing of the case on Saturday by the Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court. According to Dawn News, the case was to be heard at General Musharraf's Chak Shahzad farmhou ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated outfits like Lashkar-e-Janghvi conducted terror-activities such as suicide attacks, ruthless beheadings of tribesmen, assaults on security personnel and prominent figures including Shias, Ahmadis, Sufis, Christians and Sikhs. Besides blowing children schools, while attacking the female teachers in ord ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat By rejecting US growing pressure and defying the threat of sanctions, on March 11, this year, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari inaugurated the much-delayed section of a $7.5 billion Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. President Ahmadinejad hailed that work on the pipeline project was going ahead despite US-led international sanctions a ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Last year Asian giant has made significant increase of 17.6 percent over the previous amount of defence budget for 2011-12. Her defence budget for 2012-13, was US $40.3 billion for the Defence Services that include the three armed forces (Army, Navy and Air Force), the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Ordnance Factories. The major portion of the Civil Estimate is h ...

by Shaiq Hussain With a sense of urgency on their minds, top US officials have begun crucial talks with Pakistani authorities for the withdrawal of thousands of US-led foreign troops and military equipment from Afghanistan through NATO supply lines. While the US authorities are engaged with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Qatar and other facilitators of peace talks with the Taliban, they have started important talks ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to the police, two bomb blasts after one another  were carried out    near CD Shops  in Bacha Khan ChowkPeshawar.  Police reached on the area and started the investigations about the blasts. 3 x shops have been destroyed as a result of the balstsIt is imperative that Asfand Wali Yar Khan Chief of ANP today gave a call for all Pakistani Conference. The purpose of the conference i ...

By Ray McGovern January 20, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, a practicing Catholic, sought a blessing on Wednesday from Pope Benedict XVI. Afterward Panetta reported that the Pope said, “Thank you for helping to keep the world safe” to which Panetta replied, “Pray for me.” In seeking those prayers, Panetta knows better than the Pope what moral compromises have surrounded h ...