By Sajjad Shaukat During the Security Council’s debate on June 20, this year, Pakistan’s permanent Ambassador to the UN Masood Khan categorically rejected the accusations of Afghan Ambassador Zahir Tanin over existence of terrorists’ sanctuaries in Pakistan, from where terrorists are being sent to Afghanistan. Khan pointed out, “terrorists’ many attacks against Pakistan are planned on Afghan soil.” He furth ...

United State tussle with Russia over Snowden has become a new bone of contentions between two traditional rivals. Russia denied presence of any contract with U.S. over exchange of prisoners.  Putin said, yes, he's at a Moscow airport, and no, you can't have him. Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the first official acknowledgment of the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tue ...

Posted By Rida Zaheer FEW outside China think the Communist Party’s strategy for Tibet is working. A combination of economic development and political repression was meant to reconcile Tibetans to Chinese rule and wean them off their loyalty to the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader. Instead disaffection is still rife, especially among the young. And all across Tibetan areas of China, Tibetans still di ...

                     By Sajjad Shaukat:   Majority of our political experts see CIA-operated drone attacks in Pakistan in isolation, while these are co-related with other subversive activities, which have perennially been taking place in various regions as part of the US secret strategy against the country. When in the past, the elected government of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had signed the peace agreeme ...

Asif Haroon Raja Jihadis who had taken part in Afghan Jihad against the Soviet forces were from Pakistan, mostly from FATA and settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Jihadis from Arab, African and Central Asian countries refused to return back to their countries of origin after the successful culmination of Jihad since they were not welcomed back. The US and Saudi Arabia that had collected them and used ...

By Asif Haroon Raja War against the Soviets produced Jihadis in Pakistan. Most of the Jihadis who took part in Afghan Jihad were from FATA and some parts of settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) like Malakand. Since Jihadis came from other Muslim countries as well, camaraderie developed among them. A small force of about 500-700 from Saudi Arabia under Osama bin Laden supported by CIA also took active pa ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Reportedly, in an early morning of 29 May 2013, a U.S. Drone Strike killed four men in Pakistani Tribal area near North Waziristan. According to Pakistani officials, one of those killed in the strike was Wali ur Rehman, the number two commander of Pakistani Taliban but known as a rival to the leader of the TTP, Hakimullah Mehsud. According to the reliable sources, Wali ur Rehman was consi ...

Asif Haroon Raja India was pleased that the new Chinese premier Li Keqiang chose to first visit New Delhi and then Islamabad. She would have felt mighty pleased if the visitor had visited India only and ignored Pakistan as was the case with Barack Obama. India would have liked China’s PM to behave like Bill Clinton when after his three-day high-profile state visit to India in March 2000; he touched down at ...