By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent months, more than 50 ethnic Tibetans died through self-immolation in China, which included many Buddhist monks and nuns, calling for Tibetan freedom and the return of their spiritual leader, Dalai Lama who has lived in exile in India since a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. Many Buddhist Tibetans accuse the Chinese government of religious repression, while erodin ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 12 November 2012,  Kolkata police charged an international gold medal-winning so and so called female athlete for raping her former partner.  According to the medical tests, she was   actually a man. Pinki Pramanik, was  retired in 2007 after winning team gold in the 4x400m relay at the 2006 Asian Games, was charged after a report was completed by a medical board set up to determine he ...

By Anatol Lieven U.S. STRATEGY toward Pakistan is focused on trying to get Islamabad to give serious help to Washington’s campaign against the Afghan Taliban. There are two rather large problems with this approach. The first is that it is never going to happen. As U.S. diplomats in Pakistan themselves recognize (and as was made ever so clear by the WikiLeaks dispatches), both Pakistani strategic calculation ...

November 12, 2012 The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States The White House Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: Congratulations on being re-elected President.  We know that you, Vice President Biden, and your team will continue to do everything that you can to protect the interests of the United States. One of the challenges you continue to face as president is managing America’s rela ...

 by Zaheerul Hassan Former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, retired four stars General and CIA Director David Petraeus has resigned after proven of his extramarital relations with a married lady researcher Paul Broadwell.  Petraeus’s 14-month tenure as CIA director is one of the shortest in agency history.  Michael J. Morell, who served as Petraeus’s deputy at the CIA, will serve as interim director ...

By Zaheerul Hassan After doing graduation, post graduation and diplomas in medical, engineering and other fields’ number of people are returning to Pakistan and other countries from China, Russia and Central Asian states. In Pakistan successful returnees have to undergo the officially arranged tests prior to carrying out the medical practice in the field. In this context local educational authorities have t ...

By LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon says an Iranian military plane fired upon, but did not hit, an unarmed U.S. drone aircraft a week ago in what a spokesman said was international airspace over the Persian Gulf. Pentagon press secretary George Little disclosed the incident was disclosed Thursday. Little said the drone aircraft was performing "routine surveillance" and was about 16 miles off ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistan’ 7th Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS) opened at Karachi Expo Centre Wednesday show casing locally manufactured military equipment. Some of the major indigenously developed products being showcased in IDEAS-2012 include main battle tank Al Khalid, JF 17 Thunder fighter aircraft, jet trainer aircraft and UAVs in addition to other armaments and communication equipment. While i ...