By Sajjad Shaukat Although Pakistan has been facing various kinds of subversive activities, yet foreign hostile elements have also accelerated sectarian violence as part of their unfinished agenda to destabilise the country. In the last week of Muharram, several people have been killed and injured in suicide attacks and bomb blasts. Despite the tight security measures, a bomb attack on a procession kil ...

By Harold Brown Xi Jinping, China's newly anointed president, made his first visit to the United States in May 1980. He was a 27-year-old junior officer accompanying Geng Biao, then a vice premier and China's leading military official. Geng had been my host the previous January, when I was the first U.S. defense secretary to visit China, acting as an interlocutor for President Jimmy Carter's administration. ...

By Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal Since last week, Israeli air-force has been unleashed to carry out genocide of the innocent Palestinians residing in Gaza. The international community seems unmoved over these inhuman air raids of Tel Aviv. The Western advocators of the United Nations’ ‘responsibility to protect’ the human beings from the genocide policies of the aggressive regime, presently, are acting indifferent ...

 By Abid Hussain As the society developed from time to time the same case is of libraries. We know that  The information society demands to re-define the  objectives of all the institutions which work with information, knowledge, and culture etc. Of these, the media and education have been discussed in the developing countries as well as developed countries  actively. Libraries have been a marginal Theme. I ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan on Novemeber 24, 2012 (Thursday night) The Frontier Corps (FC) personnel had seized these explosive devices earlier. According to an FC spokesperson, securitymen had intercepted the vehicle carrying this explosive cargo in Gulistan area. “When the paramilitary troops beckoned the driver of the suspected four-wheeler to stop and show ID, he shot ahead forcing the FC men to engage in a hig ...

By: Brigadier Agha Ahmed Gul(R) The Doctors are on strike for the past 36 days in Balochistan and the province ably led by Aslam Raisani, the CM, instead of responding to their demands ordered jailing the Doctors. After a scuffle with the Police, which otherwise fails in its core duties, doctors were stuffed into prison vans and put in jail, all 65 young doctors in Quetta. The Lawyers probably thanked Almig ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan ISLAMABAD, Nov 21 (APP): President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday stressed the need for fast tracking the conclusion of Pakistan-Turkey Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) and creating facilitative mechanisms and opportunities for investors and private sectors of the two countries to bolster bilateral trade to new heights and achieve mutually agreed trade target of $ 2 billion. The Pres ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pak-Iranian relations are rapidly strengthening day by day. During the visit of Iran’s Vice President for International Affairs Ali Seedlou, both the countries signed three agreements on November 13, this year as part of Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) to promote economic cooperation, timely completion of Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project and electricity import from Iran. Both th ...