by Major John Evans   MY previous experience in Pakistan included looking down on Peshawar from the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan and receiving some rocket fire from the eastern side of the border while in Asadabad. Despite this, I was aware that the media’s portrayal of Pakistan was not entirely accurate and I was looking forward to my stay at the Command and Staff College in Quetta. However, I never could ha ...

Some say Kargil was Pakistan army’s-biggest-strategic-blunder!     by Sethi Mushtaq The Kargil war, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place in between May and July 1999, in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). The conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (Victory in Hindi) which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil ...

Mohammad Jamil In a front page comment in yesterday’s The Frontier Post, Mst Kamila Hyat referred to the sequence of events taking place in Bangladesh some 40 years after the 1971 civil war as extremely significant. “This is hardly surprising given the scale of the atrocities committed by West Pakistani troops, including the murder of students, the rape of women and plunder of entire villages”, she wrote. T ...

 By Asif Haroon Raja   Apart from hostile eastern border which has remained a chronic security concern for Pakistan since its inception, Pakistan’s western border has also remained a source of constant irritation and anxiety. To begin with, settled issue of Durand Line was willfully converted into a dispute and Pakhtunistan stunt was played up with the help of former NAP later renamed as ANP. Khan Brothers ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A recently released video by Washington Free Beacon pointed out that the US new Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel disclosed during a speech at Oklahoma’s CameronUniversity in 2011, “India has always used Afghanistan as a second front” and “has over the years financed problems for Pakistan on that side of the border.” Earlier, the then NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. McChrystal had revea ...

IT WAS 34 years ago that Park Geun-hye left Cheong wa Dae (the “Blue House”), South Korea's presidential mansion. Her father, Park Chung-hee, was the autocratic strongman who led the "miracle on the Han river" in the 1960s and 70s. From 1974 until 1979, when he was assassinated, his daughter served as his first lady. Since she won a perfectly democratic election in December 2012, she returned to the Blue Ho ...

By Pat Buchanan Regularly now, The Washington Post, as always concerned with fairness and balance, runs a blog called "Right Turn: Jennifer Rubin's Take From a Conservative Perspective." The blog tells us what the Post regards as conservatism. On Monday, Rubin declared that America's "greatest national security threat is Iran." Do conservatives really believe this? How is America, with thousands of strategi ...

ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ, 25 ਫ਼ਰਵਰੀ (ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਹਿਕ): ‘‘ਭਾਰਤੀ ਨੀਊਜ਼ ਏਜੰਸੀ ਪੀ.ਟੀ.ਆਈ. ਵਲੋਂ ਅੱਜ ਦੀਆਂ ਅਖ਼ਬਾਰਾਂ ਵਿਚ ਅਤੇ ਨੀਊਜ਼ ਚੈਨਲਾਂ ’ਤੇ ਸ. ਬਲਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਰਾਜੋਆਣਾ ਦੀ 16-02-2013 ਵਾਲੀ ਚਿੱਠੀ ਜੋ ਉਸੇ ਦਿਨ ਮੀਡੀਆ ਨੂੰ ਜਾਰੀ ਕਰ ਦਿਤੀ ਸੀ ਜਿਹੜੀ ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ ਪੰਥ ਦੇ ਨਾਮ ਲਿਖੀ ਗਈ ਸੀ, ਉਸ ਚਿੱਠੀ ਨੂੰ 8 ਦਿਨ ਬਾਅਦ ਬਹੁਤ ਹੁਣ ਗ਼ਲਤ ਅਤੇ ਗੁਮਰਾਹਕੁਨ ਢੰਗ ਨਾਲ ਪੇਸ਼ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ।’’ ਭਾਈ ਰਾਜੋਆਣਾ ਦੀ ਭੈਣ ਕਮਲਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਨੇ ਸਪੋਕਸਮੈਨ ਨੂੰ ਦਸਿਆ ਕਿ ਸ. ਬਲਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਰਾਜੋਆਣਾ ਨੇ ਇਹ ਚਿੱਠੀ ਅਫ਼ਜ਼ਲ ਗੁਰੂ ਨੂੰ ...