Asif Haroon Raja Although maligned by all and sundry, the fact is that all the bosses of Gen Yahya Khan in the Army gave him excellent reports and none doubted his military capabilities. Notwithstanding his failings, he was not corrupt and sincerely wanted to resolve the East Pakistan crisis to the best of his abilities. But he neither had political experience nor much understanding of political and constit ...

by Asif Haroon Raja   Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan’s presidential form of government under the 1962 Constitution brought in unitary system, which could not be digested by centrifugal forces in East Pakistan as well as in other smaller provinces having tendencies of detachment from the federation of Pakistan. The disillusionment in East Pakistan (EP) radical leaders was not actually related to lack of sh ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While terror-acts still keep on going in Balochistan, but without grasping reality, some politicians, human rights activists, and media persons of Pakistan have been propagating against Pak Army, Frontier Constabulary (FC), country’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI). It seems ridiculous when some of them allegedly say that security agencies are behind terror ...

Asif Haroon Raja The provisional/interim nuclear deal signed between Iran and P5 plus 1 in Geneva on November 24 has apparently defused the explosive situation in Middle East. It has been widely hailed as the triumph of diplomacy. President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javed Zarif are being applauded for their pragmatism and for averting a catastrophic war in the making. High sounding names are being ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 6, 2013 – A new two-volumeset of books entitled U.S. Congress on the Sikh Struggle for Khalistan has recently been published that reprints statements from members of the U.S. Congress inthe Congressional Record exposingIndian oppression of the Sikhs and other minorities, and supporting Sikhfreedom in a sovereign, independent Khalistan.  The books contain statements published from1 ...

By Zaheerul Hassan  During war on terror Pakistan paid heavy price in the shape of life losses and finances in addition to the sponsored militancy of hostile agencies   against the country and its security forces.  The security environment all over the country is still not conducive due to the involvement of covert hands. Since 9/11, more than 50000 individuals have been either killed or dislocated as resul ...

[caption id="attachment_2915" align="alignright" width="389"] US threaten Attack on Iran[/caption] By Asif Haroon Raja In the aftermath of 2nd World War and start of super power rivalry in the form of cold war, the US saw Iran as a counterweight against Soviet expansionism and a source of stability in oil-rich Persian Gulf. CIA and MI-6 jointly engineered a coup in 1953 to oust elected PM Mohammad Mossadegh ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Iran-US antagonism started peaking in the aftermath of Islamic revolution in Iran, followed by seizure of American Embassy in Tehran by student militants in November 1979 and holding 52 Americans hostage for next 444 days. An American rescue operation ended in a disaster, which further bolstered Khomeini’s image in Iran and Islamic world. Hostages were released as a result of secret agre ...