Posted by Faheem Belharvi Thursday, December 20, 2012 - Reko Diq, a small town in the North-West of Chagai District, is now identified for its large copper and gold reserves in raw form. This remote area of Pakistan is sparsely populated in Baluchistan. It has one of the largest undeveloped copper and gold mining deposits, worth billions of dollars, in the world. This natural treasure lies below the sand. T ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is an unfortunate country whose destiny is intertwined with treacherous India in the east which lets go no opportunity to harm Pakistan, and Afghanistan on its northwest which is wild and unreliable.  Afghanistan prefers Hindu India over Muslim Pakistan in spite of the fact that it doesn’t share border with India and is not in sync ideologically.  Except for Taliban regime from 199 ...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Bihari Camps in Dhaka .[/caption] Ishaal Zehra Hilarious, but true.  Government of Bangladesh, or should I say Shaikh Hasina’s government, arranged the 4th phase of honouring the “Foreign Friends of Bangladesh” who supported the liberation war. The grand ceremony was held on 15th December 2012 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre where Bangladesh conf ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan Japan's Liberal Democratic Party  returnd to power after winning  a landslide victory in national polls on 16 December 2012. Japnese gave almost monopoly  to LDP in Japan's post-war political order until its defeat three years ago. With the LDP's victory, Shinzo Abe, a nationalist and China hawk, is set to become Japan's next prime minister. Together with its parliamentary ally, New Kome ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past, the conventional forces of a country used to attack on a rival country in order to achieve its strategic aims. But in the modern era of globalisation and technology, a rival country can be invaded through ‘different war’ by employing both lethal and non-lethal weapons of psychological warfare. In this regard, Pakistan has become the target of various attacks such as suicide at ...

Asif Haroon Raja The US and its allies including Britain had initiated war against Afghans with lot of fanfare and had announced victory in December 2001. Having ascertained that Afghan Pashtuns were the real troublemakers in turning Afghanistan into graveyard for invading powers, they were targeted with ferocity with the help of non-Pashtun Afghans. Persecution of Pashtuns was extended to adjoining regions ...

by Athar Parvaiz (Srinagar) Amid growing scepticism among Kashmiri people that the separatist leadership has lost relevance in the region's fast-changing political landscape, the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference – an alliance of separatist political parties and religious and social groups - is making a Herculean effort to reclaim some relevance in this disputed region. [caption id="attachment_4607" ...

R. Vasudevan In a development that could snowball into a diplomatic row, India has been questioned by Sweden over its alleged role in supplying weapons to the Myanmar army in violation of European Union sanctions. The Swedish Agency for Non-Proliferation and Export Controls (ISP) launched a probe after it was given pictures and other details of several M-3 Carl Gustav anti-tank rifles, which were recovered ...