By Zaheerul Hassan  As results of elections 2013, formulation of newly elected governments has almost been completed. Political and military leaderships under the constitution of Pakistan believe in peace process with Taliban. In this regard, PML (N) and PTI have promised in their election campaigns that both parties will carry out negotiations with local Taliban for establishing of peace. But ambitions of ...

Asif Haroon Raja Jihadis who had taken part in Afghan Jihad against the Soviet forces were from Pakistan, mostly from FATA and settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Jihadis from Arab, African and Central Asian countries refused to return back to their countries of origin after the successful culmination of Jihad since they were not welcomed back. The US and Saudi Arabia that had collected them and used ...

By Asif Haroon Raja War against the Soviets produced Jihadis in Pakistan. Most of the Jihadis who took part in Afghan Jihad were from FATA and some parts of settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) like Malakand. Since Jihadis came from other Muslim countries as well, camaraderie developed among them. A small force of about 500-700 from Saudi Arabia under Osama bin Laden supported by CIA also took active pa ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Reportedly, in an early morning of 29 May 2013, a U.S. Drone Strike killed four men in Pakistani Tribal area near North Waziristan. According to Pakistani officials, one of those killed in the strike was Wali ur Rehman, the number two commander of Pakistani Taliban but known as a rival to the leader of the TTP, Hakimullah Mehsud. According to the reliable sources, Wali ur Rehman was consi ...

Asif Haroon Raja India was pleased that the new Chinese premier Li Keqiang chose to first visit New Delhi and then Islamabad. She would have felt mighty pleased if the visitor had visited India only and ignored Pakistan as was the case with Barack Obama. India would have liked China’s PM to behave like Bill Clinton when after his three-day high-profile state visit to India in March 2000; he touched down at ...

Pakistan’s foreign policy will not change with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) coming into power and all agreements signed by the former government, including Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, will be pursued, Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani declared on Friday. Addressing a weekly press briefing along with Pakistan ambassador to China Khalid Masood, Jilani said that Pakistan was facing worst ene ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791– standing guard in the early days of the Republic, and contemplating the future of warfare here in the 21st century. For over two centuries, the United States has been bound together by founding documents that defined who we are as Americans, and served as o ...

By Zaheerul Hassan United States is closing down from Afghanistan in 2014 but still failed to issue the schedule of shutting down of Guantanamo. Detainees of the jail were used to be dealt inhumanly by the investigators. The question arises whether in the next 24 hours; President Obama could finally move to close Guantanamo -- the most notorious prison camp on earth. With inmates on a 100-day hunger strike ...