By Sajjad Shaukat Although Pakistan’s provinces of Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan including city of Karachi have been facing various forms of subversive attacks, yet wave of terrorism has intensified in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which has perennially been targeted by the Taliban militants on regular basis. Besides other terror acts, militants’ attack on Peshawar Air Port on December 15, this year, and a car bomb ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On December 21, 2012 at least six people have been killed and 18 sustained injuries in a blast in Peshawar. According to the  reports, the suicidal blast took place near a political gathering of ANP in Qissa Khawani Bazaar area of Peshawar.  Senior Provincial Minister and renowned political leader of ANP, M. Bashir Ahmed Bilour  embraced shahadat. Station Police officer Sattar and persona ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Indian government went into depression state when U.S. government has informed a New York court that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and its former chiefs “enjoy immunity” in the case filed by   relatives of Mumbai attacks victims and asked Pakistan to dismantle LeT. Reportedly, Indian government and RAW has overtly and covertly provided the funds for the trial.  Indian supported th ...

Posted by Faheem Belharvi Thursday, December 20, 2012 - Reko Diq, a small town in the North-West of Chagai District, is now identified for its large copper and gold reserves in raw form. This remote area of Pakistan is sparsely populated in Baluchistan. It has one of the largest undeveloped copper and gold mining deposits, worth billions of dollars, in the world. This natural treasure lies below the sand. T ...

Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan is an unfortunate country whose destiny is intertwined with treacherous India in the east which lets go no opportunity to harm Pakistan, and Afghanistan on its northwest which is wild and unreliable.  Afghanistan prefers Hindu India over Muslim Pakistan in spite of the fact that it doesn’t share border with India and is not in sync ideologically.  Except for Taliban regime from 199 ...

By zaheerul Hssan PAF Air Base and Air Port came under terrorist attack on 15 December, 2012. According to ISPR Pakistan security forces successfully responded and killed five terrorists on the outer parameter. The terrorists failed to enter into the base and airport due to immediate and courageous action of the security forces. However, According to reports, four people have been killed while 42 have been ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Renowned Pakistani and Indian media anchors including retired high civil and military officials gathered on December 2, 2012 in New Delhi at a seminar to discuss practical solutions to the bilateral issues like Sir Creek, Siachen, Kashmir dispute etc. under the Aman Ki Asha initiative organised by The Times of India and Pakistan’s Jang Group. The move was part of the Confidence Building Me ...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="179"] Faiz Ghazal[/caption] Letter to Editor By FZ Khan Ever since the Fall of Dhaka, a great tragedy of our times, there has, on one side, always been “ehsas-e-ziyan jata raha”-attitude on part of our governments, civil society, intelligentsia and media, and on the other side of the border, the enemy celebrates the ‘big’ victory with heightened vigour and renewed pl ...