By Asif Haroon Raja The US being an imperialist power is governed by a strong hegemonic impulse. It wants to convert the world into its global village and to maintain its uni-polarism for next 100 years. 9/11 was projected as a holocaust to justify brutal war against Muslim States and steal its resources. Muslim specific crusade launched by the neo-cons was given the cover name of Global War on Terror (GWOT ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Within four months, clearing more than 80 percent areas in North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan’s Armed Forces have almost defeated the ferocious militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) by military operation Zarb-e-Azb which has rapidly been achieving its objectives. Present different war between Pakistan’s Armed Forces and the TTP insurgents is simply a ‘clash of wills’ between two ...

By  Asif Haroon Raja Taliban insurgency which triggered soon after the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by the US led western forces and Afghan Northern Alliance troops in November 2001 is still raging and gathering strength. Resistance forces have forced the occupying forces to exit by end December 2014. The US will be abandoning Afghanistan in disgrace and will leave behind an unstable, impoverished ...

 By Brig® Mehboob Qadir                                      There had been a heart wrenching  story of mass suicides by Indian Punjab farmers(7000 up to now) under the burden of unpaid debt  of state and private lenders, in an Indian magazine(The Week, August 2014) sometime ago. Besides the vast scale of human tragedy and stupendous official apathy what was most striking was the fact that a major canal tha ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Nine lac cusec high flood water tide of River Chenab leaving behind miseries, destructions, deaths and after rocking the provinces of Punjab and Sindh has now entered into the Arabian Sea. On 3 October 2014, while addressing the International Donors Conference in Islamabad, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has shown concern over the continuous depleting economy due to flood 2014, internally dis ...

By Rida Zaheer RAWALPINDI: According to ISPR, Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) killed four civilians and three others d injured on Eid Day.  (BSF) opened fire near the Sialkot working boundary when these innocent family preparing for their Eid Celebrations. The dead included Salima Bibi, 10-year-old Adeel Ahmed, four-year-old Hamad Ahmed from Dhamala village and 65-year-old Abdul Razzak from Tulsipur vil ...

By Asif Haroon Raja In his recent telephonic address Altaf Hussain recalled the 1992 military operation in Karachi and the Jinnahpur issue. Since he affixed me to the Jinnahpur conspiracy, I feel it necessary to refresh the memories of the readers and put the record straight. Law and order situation in urban and rural Sindh that was deteriorating for some years because of rural-urban ethnic divide worsened ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat  Pakistan has always been in the forefront to share the pains of Afghan people, making sincere efforts to resolve Afghan conundrum. Unfortunately, Afghan leaders, driven by overseas propaganda and foreign plots have shown signs of mistrust and skepticism towards Pakistan. In this regard, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, while ignoring the fact that Afghan Taliban are fighting for the libera ...