By Asif Haroon Raja Delving into the history of Pak-US relations spread over six decades one finds that the US relationship was always transitory in nature. After the birth of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam and Liaquat Ali Khan managed to keep foreign influence at bay. Through their strength of superior leadership and character, they overcame plethora of teething problems mostly created by the British and India. Th ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Having forcibly changed Qaddafi’s regime in Syria, the US and its western allies are now fully focused towards Syria since early 2011 to bring down Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Billions of dollars are being pumped in to support Syrian rebels and to keep the civil war inflamed. In April 2012 Summit held in Turkey and attended by 70 nations, a total of $ 100 million was pledged by Saudi Arabi ...

  By      Mohammad Jamil         In the cabinet meeting held in Karachi on Wednesday, the government decided to launch operation in Karachi. Earlier, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had consultations for two days with all the stakeholders including political parties, media, business community and members of civil society. There was almost consensus on targeted action against terrorists‚ target killers‚ kidnappe ...

Asif Haroon Raja Conflict between India and Pakistan is rooted in the events and episodes preceding the creation of Pakistan in 1947. For sure, it has been a contest between two contending ideologies and opposing socio-religious creeds. Partition of the Subcontinent and consequent creation of Pakistan on August 14, 1947 was yet another event that widened the gulf between the two nations and properly put Ind ...

Asif Haroon Raja In South Asia no country other than India has aggressive designs, or is holding other’s territory illegally, or having border dispute, or is fomenting trouble through covert means, or resorting to water terrorism in neighboring countries. All South Asian countries other than India being economically very poor do not have the means to undertake such expensive and destructive pursuits. On the ...

By Ahmed Khan In replies to my tweets, Mark Fitzpatrick Director at International Institute of Strategic Studies for Nonproliferation and Disarmament program said about Iran nuclear 'break-out capability' that "if trend continues, break-out capability by mid-2014 can be extended by enrichment limits." In his next reply he bet that 2 years are good enough to cross the enrichment limit. Now the questions aris ...

  Posted By Zaheerul Hassan  Syrian situation has dragged Middle East into fire but U.S seems terribly failed in achieving in her long term objectives. Saudi Shah recently very rightly warned his old friend U.S. to stop interfere in Middle East countries. In this regard Shah Abdullah categorically mentioned that U.S. is behind Syrian and Egyptian  current crises. According to a diplomatic report about the “ ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Presidential election held on 30 June 2013 kicked up lot of dust owing to PPP’s cranky behavior. PML-N’s demand to seek a change of date was not with mala fide intention. It was wrong on part of well-meaning but secular Fakhru Bhai not to understand the significance of 27th Ramadan which fell on 6th August and that many either sit in Aitiqaf or perform Umrah during last ten days of Ramad ...