By Jerome R. Corsi Getting Republicans to agree to a tax increase on “the rich” is not the ultimate aim of the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress, says noted tax activist Grover Norquist. Norquist, president and founder of Americans for Tax Reform, said the first act “is to get congressional Republicans to put their fingerprints on what amounts to a minor tax increase.”   “After raising taxes on ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan KABUL—Taliban insurgents on Sunday launched a coordinated assault on a key coalition base in eastern Afghanistan, detonating a series of car bombs in an apparent attempt to break through the perimeter of the heavily fortified installation. The attack, which began shortly before 6 a.m. local time, started when insurgents set off three suicide car bombs outside the perimeter of Forwa ...

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 ...

bY Rasul Bakhsh Rais There are many ways leaders of a nation can isolate themselves from the rest of the world. It is not mere geography, terrain or lack of communication facility but a mindset. Afghanistan has been historically isolated for some of the above reasons, but today, doing so voluntarily or under foreign coercion would work against self-interest. No rational, practical leaders in the contemporar ...

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 ...

 Asif Haroon Raja Although the US has failed to win war in Afghanistan, it has succeeded in achieving most objectives it had chalked out in September 2001 against Pakistan through covert war. 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 Paki ...

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 ...

by Khalid Khokhar WHILE addressing a group of officers at GHQ on November 5, the Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani warned that much is desired for all state institutions to work within their constitutional limits. The political pundits observed that the statement carried veiled challenges to the judiciary as well as media creating uproar in political, legal and social circles. The stateme ...