By Ken Auletta   The square that borders the Dadar Railway Station is the largest of sixty-five newspaper-delivery depots in Mumbai. At 4 A.M., forty trucks and vans packed with newspapers and magazines have parked and slid open their back doors; the trash-strewn streets are otherwise deserted, and the loudest noise comes from the cawing of crows. During the next few hours, two hundred and thirty-one thousa ...

   By Zaheerul Hassan Recently, a former key Indian official Satish Verma of Home Minister disclosed that a member of the secret service team has accused that Indian governments staged terror attacks on Lok Sabha and the 26/11 carnage in Mumbai. It pushed me to republish my analysis after Verma’s exposed secrets of Indian state agencies. Therefore on 15 July, 2013 I reiterated my opinions in the newspaper, ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan has been playing a constructive role in resolving internal feuds of Afghanistan since 1980s and has avoided the game of pitching one ethnic community against the other to serve its selfish interests. All the seven Mujahideen groups involved in Afghanistan Jihad against the Soviet forces had placed their trust in Islamabad. Nawaz Sharif during his first stint from 1990 to 1993 had a ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat Besides other aspects of the recently released report of Abbottabad Commission which was constituted to probe Abbottabad tragedy in which Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011, the statement of the former Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha is of particular attention. Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha revealed that Gen. Pervez Musharraf had caved in s ...

By Zaheerul Hassan First batch of 24 lady officers of Pakistani Army led by Captain Sadia completed airborne course in Peshawar. Captain Kirn Ashraf lifted the shield and declared the best paratrooper. In an impressive ceremony held at Tarbella Major General Abid Rafique, General officer Commanding of Special Services Group awarded the Para wing (Insignia) to the successful ladies officers.  At this histori ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head in October 2012 by the terrorists of TTP was given a standing ovation at the United Nations on 12 July, 2013. She was shot for speaking out against terrorists, who destroyed girls’ schools and deadly against promoting women education. The complete world community appreciated her bravery, passion, strength and courage of rising up a ...

   By Sajjad Shaukat In the past too, Pakistan has witnessed a perennial wave of subversive acts. In this regard, while talking to the BBC and Voice of America (VOA) through mobile phone, the late Baitullah Mehsud, former Chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Waziristan had claimed responsibility for the high-profile terror-attacks in Pakistan. In fact, Bailtullah Mehsud was common agent of Indian s ...

By Rida West and America successful in  evicting  democratically elected President Mohammed Mosri in Egypt.  The army took  over the country and Prime Minister has also been sent to jail for one year .   The head of the constitutional court will be sworn in to run the county's affasirs, form a technocrat governemt, and call for early elections, the Army chief said. The ruling Party has been elected to rule ...