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 Asif Haroon Raja Indira Gandhi after breaking Pakistan into two parts in 1971 chuckled that India had avenged 1000 years of humiliation and sunk two-nation theory in the Bay of Bengal. Mir Jafar’s treachery committed in 1757 was repeated by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1971. He was the Mir Jafar of 20th century. While Mir Jafar had connived with East India Company to hand over Bengal to Lord Clive, Mujib con ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The US track record during and after the Cold War is that it has always attacked economically and militarily poor countries. Excepting Israel and India, the aid it lends to its allies is always attached with tough conditions and for self-serving purposes. Besides bloody wars, destabilization of elected governments or regime change through gruesome covert operations is another favorite ho ...

Very sensitive but true sentiments of a patriotic General is being published her  for reader consumption   By    Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_11074" align="alignright" width="269"] Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bokhari, Ex NAB Chairman[/caption] QUOTE Dear Air Commodore Sajjad, We have both fought wars for our country and believe that we “are” because Pakistan “is”, and must remain. I recall our many good ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Local Police forcefully uprooted agitators’ camp of relatives of missing persons from the capital on 28 April 2014. Amina Massod Janjua, leaders of agitators along with some others people have been taken into police custody.  Point to be noted here that the hearing of so called missing persons’ cases is under progress before Judicial Commission and Supreme Court of Pakistan. In this regar ...

Asif Haroon Raja As explained in my earlier article titled ‘World Wars and Cold War’, during the Cold War, proxy wars were common because the two super powers didn’t dare to fight each other directly due to nuclear deterrence. The US led west demonized USSR and scared the world to keep away from the monster of communism. The US projected itself as the champion of democracy and human rights and guardian of f ...

Asif Haroon Raja End of Bi-Polar World. As explained in my earlier article titled ‘World Wars and Cold War’,during the Cold War, proxy wars were common because the two super powers didn’t dare to fight each other directly due to nuclear deterrence. The US led west demonized USSR and scared the world to keep away from the monster of communism. The US projected itself as the champion of democracy and human ri ...

By Sohail Parwaz Renowned journalist and TV anchor Hamid Mir was attacked by unknown assailants soon after his reaching Karachi in the morning hours of Saturday. He got two bullets and according to some sources three bullets but luckily escaped death. He was rushed to the hospital where he made an amazing rapid recovery after an emergency surgery. Hamid Mir is a good journalist friend and we worked together ...