[caption id="" align="alignright" width="224"] A Mukti Bani Commando killing Bihari muslim[/caption] Asif Haroon Raja Going through the political history of Pakistan, one is constrained to learn that till 1956 Pakistan was without a constitution and it banked upon Government of India Act as an interim instrument to govern the country. It cannot be denied that all elections held in Pakistan were rigged. The ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat In his second tenure, it was expected that the US President Barack Obama would reassess American controversial foreign policy, especially by ceasing CIA-operated drone attacks on Pakistan. But these aerial strikes continue on Pak tribal areas. It is mentionable that Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam who visited America in August, 2012, emphatic ...

By Shaun Tandon The United States will likely be the "first among equals" in 2030 in an increasingly chaotic world where China is the top economy and demand soars for resources, a US intelligence report said Monday. The National Intelligence Council, in its first assessment in four years aimed at shaping US strategic thinking, said that China will surpass the United States as the largest economy in the 2020 ...

By Zafar Ahmed Since my young age, when I started to realize the surroundings and recognize the world around consciously, I have always been wondering how a country like  Pakistan can be poor or needy or underdeveloped?!  A country possessing  rich and generous supply of all kinds of resources: human resources (with a population now around 190 million), natural resources (the Indus river and its tributaries ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Balochistan continues to simmer and has reached a boiling point because of breakdown of law and order and absence of governance by the provincial government and has the portent of turning catastrophic. Spree of target killings continues and in Khuzdar incidents of target killings are taking pace almost daily. Cruel practice of Wani (a custom to give girls in marriage to settle disputes) ...

Abdullah India’s plans to counterweight Pakistan’s submarine capability, and have an edge over China’s inferior submarine technology forced it to go for French submarine, a sister boat of Pakistan’s Agosta. But its plans have run into snags and have been severely frustrated. The blame has been laid at the door of “procurement bureaucracy” which is being targeted for a massive cost-escalation and huge time o ...

Osman Khan The renowned media personality Hamid Mir’s write-up (The News, Nov 2012) has called on the state of Pakistan to apologize to Bangladesh for the alleged atrocities committed by Pakistani Armed Forces and other paramilitary forces on Bengalis in 1971. Astonishingly, by advocating that Pakistan should apologize to Bangladesh, the author looked in complete oblivion of the barbaric atrocities also car ...

By Finian Cunningham US President Barack Obama’s renewed warning against Syria this week, that any use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces is a red line triggering direct military assault on the country, can be seen as the Western powers moving towards their endgame of “regime change.” Washington first raised the specter of Syrian chemical weapons several months ago and warned then that it would ...