By Sajjad Shaukat Famous political thinkers agree that a number of internal factors, system of government, geographical location, economic output etc. play a key role in formulating the foreign policy of a country, while national interest has primary importance. But this thesis is quite opposite to Pakistan’s political and religious parties which have always criticised the external policy of the country ...

Asif Haroon Raja War on terror initiated by the US in October 2001 is still continuing with no end in sight. In Afghanistan, the initiative is in the hands of the Taliban. The ISAF despite its massive superiority in men and material and in technology has become so vulnerable and fragile that it has decided to quit by end 2014. While ISAF under Gens McChrystal, Petraeus and Allen resorted to policy of brutal ...

  In today’s date suicide bombing is a curse familiar to all and is being used to terrorize people psychologically. Suicide bombing first originated as a political tool in the 1980s,in 1982, radical elements of the Shiite resistance in southern Lebanon joined together in the Bekka Valley to form Hezbollah. After that the trend picked up popularity among many terrorist groups as a way to achieve their m ...

By Sajjad Shaukat With the formal apology from the United States, saying “sorry” as expressed by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in relation to Salala incident which killed 24 soldiers on November 26, last year at Army outpost in Pakistan, Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) on July 3, allowed reopening of the NATO supply route across Pakistan to Afghanistan. In this regard, Pakistan’s Foreign ...

Eschmall Sardar, Pakistan and the US looked close to a breakthrough as the meeting of Defence Committee of Cabinet came to on the heels of overnight talks between top Pakistan and US officials to narrow down their differences. It was the second time in less than a week that the ISAF Commander, John Allen, landed in Pakistan to help break the impasse on restoration of NATO supplies. He, along with US deputy ...

Zaheerul Hassan US coming elections are influencing Khaleeji politics and also pressurized to European allies to put embargo on Iranian oil shipment to the other countries. In this connection, European Union restriction on Iranian oil imports came into effect on First day of July 2012. In this response, the Iranian parliament drafted a bill to block oil shipments to countries cooperating in punitive sanctio ...

One of my Sikh readers sent me an email about the conspiracy going against Sikh nation while inducting RAW agents in the Sikh organization and also sending Sikh individuals in the neighbouring countries for subversive activities.   I am posting the same email for the readers’ consumption to know the RAW’ s motives against Sikh nation. Indian Infiltration of Sikh Organizations RAW agent Dr.Amarjit Singh The ...

  Beenish Javed (a TV Reporter) & Nasir Ahmad Waqif, (an Afghan Journalist) It is encouraging to note that the saner voices in Afghanistan do recognize the efforts being made by Pakistan as sincere and towards making a long-term peace paradigm in the region. A senior official of Pakistan foreign office said that Pakistan was willing to facilitate peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan, but ...