By Sajjad Shaukat Since the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and leader of the ruling party, Awami League (AL)  Sheikh Hasina Wajid came into power, India has been employing various tactics to entrap Bangladesh by exploiting her pro-Indian tilt to fulfill its strategic interests, especially against Pakistan. Two persons have been killed in Bangladesh in the deadly clashes erupted in the country on January 5, t ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat While fighting a different war with the non-state actors, Pakistan is passing through exceptionally unusual circumstances and the situation warrants clear, bold and firm decisions to deal the menace of terrorism, specially the threat of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its banned affiliated groups. After the 9/11 tragedy, American President, Congress, media and public became one t ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is burning in the flames of war on terror since 2003. Fratricidal war has claimed 55, 973 human lives and the numbers of injured run into hundreds of thousands. This appalling figure of casualties owing to over 5000 bomb blasts, hundreds of suicide and terrorist attacks surpasses the total fatalities suffered in the 1948, 1965 and 1971 wars and local conflicts with India. While ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat                             Since the US started global war against terrorism, after the 9/11 tragedy, various political experts have opined that as part of the insurgency, terrorism comes in a variety of forms such as religious terrorism, secular terrorism and so on. Bruce Hoffman, in his book ‘Inside Terrorism’ writes: “For the religious terrorist, violence is the foremost divine duty ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                       Recently, propaganda intensified that the militant outfit Daish or ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has its presence in Pakistan. Besides some newspapers and media anchors of some TV channels also misperceived that ISIS has penetrated into Pakistan. In fact, they made their observation on the basis of media announcements by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ...

                                                                                        (Part I) By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai It is nothing less than astounding that intelligent men who are charged with the responsibility of leading a country cannot comprehend that spending billions of dollars to maintain possession of a very small disputed territory to its north with millions of troops at the expense of their ow ...

By Ali Sukhanver The Boston Review published an article of C. Christine Fair on 16th of last October with the title, Is Pakistan in ISIS' Crosshairs? C. Christine Fair is a well known American analyst on South Asian political and military affairs and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies as well as of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a senior fellow with the Counter Terro ...

By Zaheerul Hassan The cowardly act of Taliban against innocent students of Army Public School and College of Peshawar is completely intolerable. Taliban carnage of   149 people, including 134 children, lady principal and teacher are totally condemnable and proved an example of barbarism. Meanwhile, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif rushed to Kabul and warned Afghan authorities to take decisive action agains ...