By Asif Haroon Raja The strategic import of Afghanistan can hardly be overstressed. The rising power, China, and reemerging power, Russia, energy and resource rich Central Asia and Middle East, and strategically located Pakistan surround Afghanistan. In real-politick terms, stability in Afghanistan and regional concord among all the countries surrounding it would contribute in the fast-paced development of ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent years, when the US-led NATO forces felt that they are failing in coping with the stiff resistance of the Taliban in Afghanistan, they started accusing Pak Army and country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the Afghan Taliban. The high officials and media of their countries not only blamed Pakistan for cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan, but also presumed th ...

محمد عبد الحمید سپیشل برانچ، پنجاب، کے طریقہ کار کے مطابق علاقائی دفتروں سے حالات اور واقعات کی رپورٹیں اردو میں آتی ہیں۔ صدر دفتر میں ان کا انگریزی میں خلاصہ تیار کیا جاتا ہے۔ انگریزی کی اصلاح کے لیئے ڈی۔ ایس۔ پی۔ اور ایس۔ پی۔ ہیں۔ چودھری سردار محمد، نے جب سپیشل برانچ، پنجاب، کے سربراہ تھے، طے کیا کہ ان کے دفتر سے جاری ہونے والی روزانہ رپورٹ اردو میں کی جائے۔ جب اردو اپنائی گئی تو انسپیکٹر بھی روزانہ رپورٹ ...

By Asif Haroon Raja By the time PPP regime took over in March 2008 Fazlullah had created a state within state in Swat and adjoining districts. Former President Zardari and PM Gilani were forced to order a big operation in Swat in April 2009 after Fazlullah broke the peace deal signed two months earlier and his militants threatened Islamabad after capturing Dir and Buner. Operation Rah-e-Raast cleared Swat, ...

By Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal The unending crisis The Muslim world is now in the tight grip of an overwhelming crisis. It has engulfed not only the politics, but also the religious beliefs, the ideology, the spirituality, the culture, the education, the defence – in fact, all arenas of Muslims’ life. Day by day, the crisis is deepening and getting a catastrophic dimension. It shows no exit way. Rather it appear ...

By  Ali Sukhanver Terrorism is a menace which could engulf the whole world if not timely taken care of. In other words the war against terrorism is not for the betterment of some individual or for the benefit of some particular group, it is for the safer and brighter future of the whole world. Though this war against terrorism was started by America but at present there is no America anywhere in this war; i ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Military thinkers agree that although the physical force will determine the type and scale of war, yet it is the will to fight or moral force which determines the outcome of war. Clausewitz puts it this way, “One might say that the physical force seems little more than the wooden hilt, while moral factors are the precious metal, the real weapon.” In his book, “Fighting Power: German and U. ...

نغمہ حبیب کاش بھارت پاکستان کا ہمسایہ نہ ہوتا یا اگر ہوتا تو وہ اپنے ہمسایوں کے ساتھ مہذب انداز میں رہنے کا طریقہ جانتا اور کاش کہ برطانیہ جاتے ہوئے کشمیر کا مسئلہ اپنے پیچھے چھوڑ کر نہ جاتا۔کشمیر جغرافیائی اور مذہبی لحاظ سے پاکستان کا قدرتی حصہ ہے لیکن بھارت اس پر زبردستی قبضہ کیے ہوئے ہے اور اپنی آزادی کی خاطر لڑنے والوں کو انتہائی سخت اور ظالمانہ طریقے سے کچلنے میں مصروف ہے اور انہیں دہشت گرد قرار دیتا ہ ...