by Asif Haroon Raja The Army and paramilitary forces are fighting a guerrilla war against home based militants in the northwest since 2002 without a break. The militants are Islamists waging an ideological war to establish Islamic Caliphate. They neither believe in Pakistan’s constitution nor in democracy saying these are of western model and anti-Islamic. They had picked up arms against the state in react ...

                         By Mohammad Jamil Last month, Federal Minister for Finance Muhammad Ishaq Dar informed the members of the lower house of the parliament that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was investigating the cases of 11,000 NATO/ISAF missing containers on the directives of Supreme Court of Pakistan. “They (NAB) are in the process of finalizing the investigations and has not yet communicated ...

By Sajjad Shaukat More than 80 people died and 150 injured when two suicide attackers struck the All Saints Church in Peshawar on September 22, this year, leading to country wide protest demonstrations by the Christians. For this barbaric act at the church, Pakistan umbrella Taliban movement claimed responsibility, saying it set up a new faction, Junood ul-Hifsa to kill foreigners and non-Muslims to avenge ...

SEMINAR HELD ON 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2013, AT THE 24TH SESSION OF THE UN: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 9-27TH SEPTEMBER, 2013 WAS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL -DR AWATAR SINGH SEKHON RIGHTS OF MINORITIES, CHILDREN AND WOMAN IN SOUTH ASIA SPEAKERS: Usman Khalid, Alan Hart, Dr Abdul M Chowdhary (absent due to Medical grounds), Professor of Sikhism Gurtej Singh, Sardar K J Singh, Ms Irene P Hujon & Nitin Gan ...

                                 By Mohammad Jamil Last week, Federal Interior Minister Ch. Nisar Ali Khan had categorically stated that Pakistan will not accept any foreign pressure in regard to talks with the militants. Before Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves for the US next week to attend 68th General Assembly session, the government has reiterated its position that Pakistan would not buckle under any ...

BY Asif Haroon Raja While corruption, inefficiency and bad governance which were the hallmarks of the last regime have made our economy fragile, decade old terrorism has struck the severest blow to the economy. Not only over $100 billion has gone down the drain, over 40,000 people have lost their lives in this senseless infighting. Despite such huge sacrifices and economic losses, terrorism has not been bri ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s armed forces have been coping with internal and external challenges of grave nature in order to maintain the security of the country. Externally, these forces have equally been responding to India’s aggression at the Line of Control (LoC). Recently, tension between India and Pakistan has accelerated, as the former set off a series of unprovoked cross-border firings at the LoC. ...

  By    Mohammad Jamil The Pakistani Taliban has demanded release of militant prisoners and withdrawal troops from the tribal areas. “Pakistan must take steps which can develop an atmosphere of trust and can remove doubts and suspicion. We cannot move forward unless the government accepts our demands”, spokesman for the banned TTP told the BBC and western news agencies. As a gesture of goodwill or confidenc ...