By Sajjad Shaukat The collaboration between Geo media network and India has been exposed, as leaders of various political and religious parties including all the segments of society have been condemning the Geo and Jang group by showing solidarity with Pakistan’s armed forces and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), in the aftermath of Hamid Mir episode which was manipulated by this media group. On ...

By Laura Schuurmans The US and NATO have indicated that they will completely withdraw their forces in 2014 if they do not sign a bilateral security agreement (BSA) with the former and a status of forces agreement with the latter. The final presidential candidates of Afghanistan have pledged that they would sign a BSA and SOFA necessary for providing legal cover to the U.S. and NATO for their future military ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Since the government of the Awami League led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid came to power, she has taken various steps to appease India such as hastily-execution of her political opponent, Abdul Quader Mullah-leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, the removal of some Islamic books from academic courses to give secular orientation to the country, holding of the ceremony in Dhaka on March 24, 20 ...

   By Sajjad Shaukat                                   Undoubtedly, media is a powerful instrument to build perceptions and promote ideologies. Media houses like Geo and Jang Group, due to their area of influence, wealth and assets inland and abroad, have become a monster in Pakistan. By acting upon the anti-Pakistan propaganda for the sake of money, this media group follows its own peculiar agenda, and kee ...

By Muhammad Daim Fazil The Congress rule of fifty out of sixty seven years since India’s independence is severely hammered by a hardliner and ethnic Hindu leader, Narendra Modi, in recently concluded general elections. According to latest reports, Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won 284 seats in Lok Sabha (parliament), surpassing 272 seats to establish government--- enabling itself to constitute g ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During the first anniversary of 2013 general elections in Pakistan, on May 11, this year, country-wide protest rallies led by leaders of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI), Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT), Pakistan Muslim League (Q) and Jamaat Islami (JI) were held against the rigging in the elections, demanding a corruption-free state, instead of a system that brought corrupt politicians in parli ...

By Brig®Mehboob Qadir Pakistan must be a unique country where her Defense Minister launches repeated malicious attacks on his own armed forces, keeps meaningfully quiet when they come under sizzling smear assault from a tainted part of media and acts deaf  on a written defamation complaint by the country’s premier intelligence agency, again, under his care. This is most likely a minister who cannot, perhaps ...

BY   MIAN MUHAMMAD SIDDIQUE Pakistan is a victim of grand design, being pursued through indirect strategy. Since it is too dangerous to invade it physically due to its large population, nuclear and missile capability, strategic location, large armed forces and resultant unpredictable/unacceptable consequences for the region and the world at large, it is being destroyed systematically from within using soft ...