Posted by Zaheerul Hassan Ialamabad:  Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack on Senior journalist Hamid Mir and warned of more attacks on anyone pursuing the secular agenda.Yesterday a bag of explosive has been found pasted in Hamid Mir Car. Govt offered full security to the journalist. Pakistan massed have demanded that govt should take serious ...

Asif Haroon Raja Although the US has failed to win war in Afghanistan, it has to an extent succeeded in weakening Pakistan from within through covert war to be able to denuclearize it. As against the advice of India, the US desisted from applying direct strategy due to Pakistan’s nuclear capability. The US and its strategic partners therefore embarked upon a well-thought plan to gradually weaken Pakistan an ...

By Professor Ali Sukhanver:   [caption id="attachment_3997" align="alignright" width="236"] Malala-Yousaf undr treatment in Uk[/caption] What happened to Malala is not simply a tale of brutality, cruelty, violence and aggression, it is something else based on intrigue and conspiracy. Though the militants in Pakistan are being held responsible for this cowardly inhuman action against an innocent young girl b ...

Asif Haroon Raja US-NATO continue to reiterate the old allegation that the ISI is ‘intimately involved’ with the insurgency in Afghanistan and is secretly aiding Haqqani network. Although the allegation is frivolous, even for argument sake it is hypothesized that the ISI is involved, what is so strange about it and why should it surprise NATO or the US? Why should it cause so much anguish since all the inte ...

Professor Ali Sukhanver “They hang the victims upside down; they stab them with sharp instruments, force objects such as chilies or thick sticks into their rectums and most of the time the victims have to face severe beatings, electric shocks and crushing heavy rollers”, says a report of Amnesty International on the situation of human rights violation at the hands of Indian forces in the Indian Occupied Kas ...

        By Sajjad Shaukat Since the speeches of November 5 by Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, a new debate has started in our media which have been leaving no stone unturned by exploiting their statements. Although there is some difference in nature of their statements, yet in their addresses, central point of both army chief and c ...

 by Zaheerul Hassan Former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, retired four stars General and CIA Director David Petraeus has resigned after proven of his extramarital relations with a married lady researcher Paul Broadwell.  Petraeus’s 14-month tenure as CIA director is one of the shortest in agency history.  Michael J. Morell, who served as Petraeus’s deputy at the CIA, will serve as interim director ...

By LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon says an Iranian military plane fired upon, but did not hit, an unarmed U.S. drone aircraft a week ago in what a spokesman said was international airspace over the Persian Gulf. Pentagon press secretary George Little disclosed the incident was disclosed Thursday. Little said the drone aircraft was performing "routine surveillance" and was about 16 miles off ...