By Asif Haroon Raja The heavy mandate Nawaz Sharif’s rule came to an abrupt end after two years eight months as a result of military coup by Gen Musharraf on October 12, 1999. He was later on exiled for ten years. After 9/11, Musharraf was coerced and induced by the US and led to believe that partnership with USA would uplift Pakistan’s depressed fortunes and pave the way for prosperity. He was assured that ...

      By Sajjad Shaukat In the recent months, the militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliated outfits accelerated their terror-activities by attacking the leaders and election-sites of the Awami National Party (ANP), Pakistan Peoples Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) including some other political parties and offices of the Election Commission of Pakistan till May 11, 2013 to ...

By Zaheerul Hasaan According to the latest unofficial results, so far Nawaz Sharif led party ML (N) won 125 National Assembly seats; PPP party went from first to second position and won 32 seats. Whereas, PTI under the chairmanship of old cricket team captain Imran Khan emerged as third largest party after wining 31 National Assembly seats. To win a simple majority, a party or coalition would have to bag 13 ...

Asif Haroon raja had been planted by RAW and sent to Pakistan to spy and carryout acts of terrorism.  He had killed many innocent Pakistanis by planting bombs. He was arrested on April 28, 1990 near Kasur by border guard while he was trying to escape to India via Ganda Singhwala. He was tried in Anti-Terrorist Court on charges of planting and exploding five bombs in Lahore and Faisalabad and killing 14 peop ...

By Asif Haroon Raja None can deny that the US and its allies apparently mandated to eliminate terrorism in Afghanistan had a different agenda. Under the garb of fighting terrorism, Pakistan was to be systematically destabilized, weakened, de-nuked, secularized and turned into a compliant state. The six intelligence units led by CIA based in Kabul since end 2001 were instrumental in diverting flames of terro ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani prisoner dies at Chandigarh hospital at 7:15 on May 9 ,2013.  He slipped in Coma when, was beaten by Vinod Kumar, a court-martialed Indian soldier who is also serving a life term for murder. Ranjay, has also been earlier declared clinically dead by the medical board.  He was from the border village of Sialkot. According to his family Sanaullah by mistake cros ...

Vaisakhi Celebrated With Parades Sikhs March in Washington DC, New York,London, Around World   Last month, Sikhs celebrated Vaisakhi Day with paradesin Washington DC, New York, London, Vancouver, France, Belgium, Australia,India, and other locations around the world. Vaisakhi Day is the anniversary of the founding of the Khalsa Panth, oneof the most significant days in the Sikh calendar.  It is the national ...

China-India relations By Brigadier Arun Sahgal, PhD (Retd) In 2009, media was abuzz with a revelation that China had replicated the whole of Aksay Chin and a large part of disputed Indo-China border in a large sized sand model over area equivalent to the size of six cricket fields thousands of kilometers away in Huanyangton village near Yinchuan in Ningxia autonomous region (Northern China). The fundamental ...