Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan has been playing a constructive role in resolving internal feuds of Afghanistan since 1980s and has avoided the game of pitching one ethnic community against the other to serve its selfish interests. All the seven Mujahideen groups involved in Afghanistan Jihad against the Soviet forces had placed their trust in Islamabad. Nawaz Sharif during his first stint from 1990 to 1993 had a ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan has been continuously advocating peace talks with Taliban and insisting upon finding a political solution, but Kabul regime and Washington preferred brute force in Afghanistan. Pakistan was also advised to follow suit and pressured to launch another major operation in North Waziristan (NW) and eliminate safe havens of Haqqani network. Pakistan has all along helped Hamid Karzai regi ...

Asif Haroon Raja The new regime has been handed down a huge mess and is at a loss where to start from and which problem to tackle first. All macroeconomic indicators are in negative, national kitty is empty and foreign investment has dried up. It has inherited bankrupt economy, an unmanageable energy crisis, massive debt, lawlessness and fraught security situation. The new leaders are heard saying that they ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat Besides other aspects of the recently released report of Abbottabad Commission which was constituted to probe Abbottabad tragedy in which Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011, the statement of the former Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha is of particular attention. Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha revealed that Gen. Pervez Musharraf had caved in s ...

By Zaheerul Hassan According to the media reports, Saudi Government has  initiates a crackdown on illegal expatriates which created chaos and panic amongst Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Philippines and Egypt. Thousands of people lined up in their respective Embassies / Consulate to correct their status or leave the Kingdom before expiry of deadline i.e. 13 July 2013. In this connection, Asian amba ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan  Sajjad Akbar The violence is an act of aggression of a person against someone or by a group of persons against opponent cluster of persons. Sometimes, an individual perform the act of violence against oneself and reaches at that stage of antagonism where ultimately either lose senses or go for suicide. Beating, killing, teasing, assaulting and raping are common forms of violence in the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During his trip to Beijing, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang signed eight agreements on July 5, this year in various fields, which will pave the way for inflow of multi-billion dollar Chinese investment in Pakistan, strengthening their relationship which is time-testing. One of the most important accords signed in the presence of the two prime mi ...

   By Sajjad Shaukat In the past too, Pakistan has witnessed a perennial wave of subversive acts. In this regard, while talking to the BBC and Voice of America (VOA) through mobile phone, the late Baitullah Mehsud, former Chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Waziristan had claimed responsibility for the high-profile terror-attacks in Pakistan. In fact, Bailtullah Mehsud was common agent of Indian s ...