By Sajjad Shaukat China rejected Indian allegations on April 12, this year that its troops crossed into Indian area and erected a camp in Ladakh at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) as well as the build-up of Chinese military forces along the disputed border. In fact, Indian army set up its own camp just near the LAC. Similarly, Indian soldiers crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir on January 6, 2012 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan  A car bomb exploded outside the French embassy in Tripoli early morning. In this blast two French guards injured and one corner of the embassy building damaged.  After the death of late Libyan leader Qaddafi, It is the first major attack on a Western target in Libya since the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghaz.  The blast destroyed part of the compound wall and shattered w ...

Letter to Editor The Lal Masjid “Operation Silence” was meant to silence the ‘Red Mosque’ loudspeakers, and it did silence them for the time being, but, as the time passes, that silence is turning into heat. Musharraf is now in custody and every gun has turned its barrel at him. It has timed with the release of Lal Masjid Commission report that implicates Musharraf for the whole saga. As the turncoats have ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat  Recently tension arose between Pakistan and Afghanistan when a spokesman of Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs blamed Islamabad for continuation of mortar attacks and construction of security wall inside Afghanistan including deployment of Pakistani soldiers across the Pak-Afghan border. While, hundreds of Afghan university students in Jalalabad took to the streets on April 15, this y ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Going through the political history of Pakistan, one is constrained to learn that till 1956, Pakistan was without a constitution. Popularity graph of the Muslim League kept sliding after the birth of Pakistan because of the fact that almost the entire lot of leading lights of this party had no roots in regions falling within Pakistan. Instead of learning a lesson from its defeat in 1954 ...

Asif Haroon Raja May 11, 2013 has been announced as polling day. Scrutiny of nominations papers has been completed and submission of appeals to election tribunals and their decisions ended on 16th. Final list will be issued on 18th. Election campaign will reach feverish pitch from 19 April. Notwithstanding the eagerness of the candidates and voters, security environment are not conducive for holding smooth, ...

By John Chan "Information Clearing House" -"WSWS" - In meetings with Chinese leaders last weekend, US Secretary of State John Kerry engaged in a barely disguised form of blackmail to pressure Beijing to use “all options” to force its ally North Korea to dismantle its nuclear programs and destroy its nuclear weapons. Impoverished North Korea is completely dependent on China for vital imports, including oil a ...

 By Asif Haroon Raja When India was partitioned and moth eaten Pakistan deprived of West Bengal, East Punjab, large slices of West Punjab and Kashmir came into being on August 14, 1947, West Punjab was relatively more developed than all other provinces which became part of Pakistan. Balochistan, Sindh and East Bengal were under developed but East Bengal was the poorest of all. In united India, it had been a ...