[caption id="attachment_2294" align="alignright" width="182"] US President[/caption] Posted by Maidah Zaheer While speaking at the National Urban League, US President Barack Obama has accepted in principle the fact that anyone can own a gun but the gun should be appropriate to the occasion.   Against the backdrop of the midnight massacre of 12 persons in the movie hall in Aurora, he said that an assault rif ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan BEIRUT — With warplanes circling overhead, Syrian attack helicopters pounded rebel-held neighborhoods in Aleppo on Tuesday in an escalation of the battle for the country's commercial capital and largest city, residents and activists said. Following a pair of rebel assaults on the country's two main cities and a bombing that wiped out some of his top security last week advisors, Pre ...

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER According to media reports, the new ISI chief, General Zaheer-ul-Islam would be there in Washington on 2nd of this August to hold talks with CIA Director David Petraeus on counter-terror cooperation and intelligence sharing. Since after the ‘uncivilized and unethical’ raid of the US marines in search of Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad, the relationship between the two countries is conti ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On 21 July 2012, Foreign Sponsored elements are hit a security checkpost located in Pishukan area of Gwadar. In this militant attack, six security personnel were killed and four others injured when unknown terrorists fired rockets at security.  The local administration and Levies personnel reached the scene and shifted the injured to hospital.  The security forces cordoned off the area af ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although apparently leaders of all the concerned countries expressed cooperation among themselves, emphasising stability in Afghanistan in various conferences held in the recent years, yet all are preparing for the new cold war which US intends to initiate against China and Russia. In this regard, during his Asia visit, on June 2, this year, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta disclosed in S ...

[caption id="attachment_2158" align="alignright" width="640"] Haqqani Group of Taliban[/caption] Asif Haroon Raja Haqqani Network (HN) under Sirajuddin Haqqani based in North Waziristan (NW) was declared the most dangerous outfit when it hit military targets in Kabul several times with impunity on September 13, 2011. Murder of Burhanuddin Rabbani on September 20, 2011 blocked the peace effort. These attacks ...

By Imran Malik In a blatant display of overwhelming power and clout, the US forced Pakistan’s hand in the nerve wrecking and vital battle of wits for the Nato supply routes and by implication the future of its Afghan campaign. The US pressure tactics included a double pincer movement of sorts, comprising a strategic and an economic prong targeting Pakistan’s obvious vulnerabilities. The [caption id="attachm ...

Asif Haroon Raja  The might of US military-NATO got bogged down in the swamp of Afghanistan, rather than making corrections at its end, Pentagon and CIA made Pakistan a scapegoat and blamed it for all their faults. Finding no explanation to offer for their dismal performance despite enjoying all the strategic and technical advantages, the US after playing up extremist threat to the integrity of Pakistan and ...