By Asif Haroon Raja War against the Soviets Fearing takeover by the fundamentalists, 40th Soviet Army intervened and occupied Afghanistan on December 27, 1979, killed Hafiz Amin and installed a communist regime under Babrak Karmal. Pakistan could not remain unconcerned with this intervention because of Moscow’s age-old quest for warm waters, its strategic partnership with archrival India and 7 million Afgha ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan In a memorandum submitted to Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Barrister Sultan Mehmood Choudhary, former Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir and Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary General, World Kashmir Awareness Forum highlighted the following: We are writing to urge a leadership role of the United Nations in resolving the 70-year-old Kashmir conflict that ...

By Sajjad Shaukat At least 59 people were killed and more than 500 others injured on October 1, this year, when a gunman opened fire on concertgoers from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. An American national, Stephen Paddock was identified by the US security agencies as the shooter, who was armed with as many as 20 weapons, including automatic and semi-automatic rifles an ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Armed Forces have successfully broken the backbone of the foreign-backed terrorists by the military operations Zarb-e-Azb and Radd-ul-Fasaad which have also been extended to other parts of the country, including Balochistan province and Karachi. Army and ISI have broken the network of these terrorist groups by capturing several militants, while thwarting a number of terror attem ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although from the very beginning a gulf existed between Pakistan-US relations, yet American President Donald Trump is widening it due to his political follies. During the heightened days of the Cold War, despite Pakistan’s membership of the US sponsored military alliances SEATO and CENTO, including Pak-US bilateral military agreement, America did not come to help Pakistan against India whi ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Motivated origination of war on terror Drama of 9/11 provided a readymade excuse to George W. Bush and his team of Neocons to wage wars against targeted Muslim countries, accomplish their geo-strategic and geo-economic ambitions in Eurasia as envisaged in New World Order and to rule the world for next 100 years. Bush initiated the war on terror on October 7, 2001 to rid the world from te ...

BY YASMEEN AFTAB ALI The by-elections of NA 120 that Begum Kulsoom Nawaz won by 13k votes against Dr Yasmeen Rashid of PTI: this victory though translated into retaining the seat by PML-N is hollow. In earlier elections the same seat was won by 42000 votes. Political pundits claim the fortress has been breached.  However, there are many elements of the contest that need closer inspection.  First, the margin ...

By Sajjad Shaukat On September 18, 2016, Indian media had said that four “fidayeen,” highly-trained militants who were carrying guns and grenades stormed a base in Uri, close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan and killed at least 17 soldiers in one of the most deadly attacks on security forces in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in two decades. The four attackers were killed by the army, as an Indi ...