Syria's main armed opposition group, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), is losing fighters and capabilities to Jabhat al-Nusra, an Islamist organisation with links to  al-Qaida that is emerging as the best-equipped, financed and motivated force fighting  Bashar al-Assad's regime. Evidence of the growing strength of al-Nusra, gathered from Guardian interviews with FSA commanders across Syria, underlines the dilemma ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On May 3, 2013 Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani prisoner 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 declared clinically dead by the medical board. Family and locals of Indian occupied Kashmir protested over ruthless and inhuman act of Indian inmate. Pakistani authorities appealed that San ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past few years, many serious crises erupted in Pakistan when leaders of some political parties and media anchors spread rumours that army will impose martial law in the country. But Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani acted upon the principle of non-interference in politics. While, people witnessed that the coalition government completed its tenure of five years. These int ...

Asif Haroon Raja India’s worst fears with regard to the situation in Afghanistan are in all likelihood coming true. The United States was India’s closest partner in Afghanistan venture and both had jointly worked up regional objectives for mutual benefits. This mutually beneficial partnership remained strong till as late as 2012 during which Indo-US, Indo-Afghan and Afghan-US strategic partnership agreement ...

By Sajjad Shaukat                  Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on April 24, this year in Brussels in a meeting hosted by the US Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at easing tensions over border disputes and the stalled peace process. Recently, tension arose between Pakistan and Afghanistan when Kabul blamed Islamabad for mortar attacks and c ...