Asif Haroon Raja Afghanistan shares 1400 km border with Pakistan. Apart from geographic contiguity, 42% Pashtuns of 28 million population of Afghanistan share religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural ties with 15.2 million Pashtuns of 174 million population of Pakistan. Pashtuns living in close vicinity of Durand Line have blood relations and the border line has never acted as a barrier in their cross bor ...

By Aslam Minhas [caption id="attachment_3459" align="alignright" width="279"] General Musa - Former C in C Pak Army[/caption] In October 1958, Ayub appointed General Mohammed Musa (who rose from the ranks) as the next C-in-C with Lt-Gen Muhammed Habibullah Khan as his Chief of Staff. In doing so, Ayub overlooked Lt-Gen Habibullah Khan, an officer technically and professionally more qualified than Gen Musa. ...

By Farah Stockman For Pakistanis living on the front lines, there is no denying the horror that extremists create. Last year, I toured the Swat Valley with a barrel-chested police chief  who recounted all the cops he lost when the Taliban overran his city.  Militants bombed his police barracks and beheaded one of his beloved  officers on film. I’ll never forget the stony look on his face as he  described ho ...

By Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman [caption id="attachment_3445" align="alignright" width="450"] Hurricane destroyed U.S.[/caption] NEW YORK | Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:47am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm Sandy, which knocked out power to huge swathes of the nation's most densely populated region, ...

 By Sajjad Ashraf         Synopsis Pakistan is rent by regional resentment, ethnic-linguistic divisions and provincial enmities, while stuck in a quagmire of criminality and terrorism. It faces the prospect of another redrawing of its boundaries unless it can resolve the internal conflicts and restore credible and honest leadership. Commentary MORE THAN 30 years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Pak ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_3433" align="alignright" width="355"] Golden Temple[/caption] 28 Years after the organized and systematic killing of Sikhs in India, Honorable Warren Entsch, an Australian Federal Member of Parliament will present a "Genocide Petition" before Australian Parliament. The "Genocide" petition will be tabled before the "House of Representatives" during Adjournmen ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_3428" align="alignright" width="349"] Malala Yousafzai-A Vicitim of TTP[/caption] Debate on the tragic incident of a 14-year-old girl Malala Yousafzai, a female child educator, who was brutally shot in Swat on October 9, reduced in Pakistan. But, under the cover of attack on Malala by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which claimed responsibility for this heinous ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_3424" align="alignright" width="265"] Sikhs Gathering[/caption] Los Angeles, USA: Reverend Jesse Jackson from the Rainbow PUSH coalition recognizes UNITED SIKHS with a Humanitarian Award for its remarkable work in the field of Advocacy and Humanitarian Aid. The event marked the birthday celebration for Jesse Jackson at Ritz Carlton in Los Angeles, CA on Sund ...