By Sajjad Shaukat On December 13, 2001, five terrorists had attacked the Indian parliament by penetrating the tight security in a car with home ministry and parliament labels, and resulted into deaths of the gunmen along with six police officers, after an exchange of gun battle. The day has come at a time when in one way or the other, India has been repeating the similar blame game against Pakistan. On Dece ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan-US Relationship Pakistan was the darling of USA in the 1950s and to some extent in early 1960s since it was part of SEATO and CENTO that were poised to contain communism in South Asia and Middle East. After betraying Pakistan in the 1965 and 1971 wars with India by applying military sanctions, the US once again befriended Pakistan in the 1980s to make use of it to defeat Soviet ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s security forces successfully foiled an attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi on November 23, this year. In the exchange of firing, two policemen were martyred, including two civilians, as three gunmen tried to enter the consulate around 9:30am but were intercepted by security guards at a checkpoint. Karachi Police Chief Dr Amir Shaikh said, “Three suspected suicide bombers ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On 26th of November 2011, the US-led NATO forces attacked two Pakistani check-posts on Pak-Afghan border and martyred 24 Pakistani military personnel indiscriminately. In this regard, two American Apache helicopters and two F-15 Eagle fighter jets targeted the two Pakistani posts, Boulder and Volcano, situated at Salala in the Baizai tehsil of Mohmand Agency. The airstrike was carried out ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s extremist party-BJP had got a land sliding triumph in the Indian elections 2014 on the basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans. Therefore, since the Prime Minister Modi came to power, he has been implementing anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda with the support of fanatic coalition outfits. Now, same slogans-based policy has become the BJP stra ...

  By Saeed Qureshi Pakistan must have more provinces. The existing four provinces are like four states within a state. These four big administrative units create regional and provincial friction bordering on hatred. Ever since the creation of Pakistan, one of the overriding hurdles in the way of coveted national cohesion and unity are these administrative elephantine units that vie and remain at logger ...

[caption id="attachment_17064" align="alignleft" width="396"] Afghan National Army (ANA) officer cadets move to their next training exercise at the ANA Officer Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan.[/caption] نغمہ حبیب افغانستان برادر اسلامی ملک ہے لیکن دشمن کے ریشہ دوانیوں کے باعث اکثر اس کے تعلقات پاکستان سے نا خوشگوار ہو جاتے ہیں۔وہی پاکستان افغان حکمرانوں کے الزامات کی زد میں آجاتا ہے جو ہمیشہ مشکل حالات میں اف ...

Written By Jamshed & Jamshed [caption id="attachment_17059" align="alignright" width="379"] Gen. Raziq’s brother appointed as new police chief[/caption] On October 18th, Kandahar’s Governor, Afghanistan’s powerful Police Chief Abdul Raziq and NDS Provincial Chief Abdul Mohmin along with two others died in an insider attack. This attack left the power vacuum in the Southern Province of Afghanistan. Accor ...