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 ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Islamabad: Pakistan's teenaged rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for standing up against the terror outfit and pushing for education for girls, has been ranked sixth by Foreign Policy magazine in its top 100 global thinkers list. Aung San Suu Kyi, who continues her struggle for democracy in Myanmar, is ranked first on the list which also features former ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan on Novemeber 24, 2012 (Thursday night) The Frontier Corps (FC) personnel had seized these explosive devices earlier. According to an FC spokesperson, securitymen had intercepted the vehicle carrying this explosive cargo in Gulistan area. “When the paramilitary troops beckoned the driver of the suspected four-wheeler to stop and show ID, he shot ahead forcing the FC men to engage in a hig ...

By: Brigadier Agha Ahmed Gul(R) The Doctors are on strike for the past 36 days in Balochistan and the province ably led by Aslam Raisani, the CM, instead of responding to their demands ordered jailing the Doctors. After a scuffle with the Police, which otherwise fails in its core duties, doctors were stuffed into prison vans and put in jail, all 65 young doctors in Quetta. The Lawyers probably thanked Almig ...

Officials in northwest Pakistan say a female suicide bomber has detonated her explosives near the convoy of a former leader of the country's largest Islamist political party. Authorities say the target of the blast was Qazi Hussain Ahmad, the former head of Jamaat-e-Islami, who was unharmed in the explosion. However, at least three of the political party's workers were wounded in the incident in the Mohmand ...

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 ...

          By Sajjad Shaukat In the modern era, various forms of state terrorism continue by the Israeli armed forces on the Palestinians. While with the backing of Burmese military regime and the covert assistance of Hindus, recent bloodshed of the minority Rohingya Muslim community at the hands of the Rakhine extremist Buddhists in Burma (Myanmar) presents another such example. Similarly, during the Bosnia ...