by Major John Evans   MY previous experience in Pakistan included looking down on Peshawar from the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan and receiving some rocket fire from the eastern side of the border while in Asadabad. Despite this, I was aware that the media’s portrayal of Pakistan was not entirely accurate and I was looking forward to my stay at the Command and Staff College in Quetta. However, I never could ha ...

Some say Kargil was Pakistan army’s-biggest-strategic-blunder!     by Sethi Mushtaq The Kargil war, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place in between May and July 1999, in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). The conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (Victory in Hindi) which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil ...

Mohammad Jamil In a front page comment in yesterday’s The Frontier Post, Mst Kamila Hyat referred to the sequence of events taking place in Bangladesh some 40 years after the 1971 civil war as extremely significant. “This is hardly surprising given the scale of the atrocities committed by West Pakistani troops, including the murder of students, the rape of women and plunder of entire villages”, she wrote. T ...

By Robert Dreyfuss The United States is slipping and sliding down that proverbial “slippery slope” in Syria toward something that looks increasingly like war. Most worryingly, according to The New York Times, the CIA is training Syrian fighters in Jordan. Buried in its story today about Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement that the United States will increase aid to the rebels, including medical sup ...

By Felix Imonti March 01, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - "OilPrice" -  Russia is back.  President Vladimir Putin wants the world to acknowledge that Russia remains a global power.  He is making his stand in Syria. The Soviet Union acquired the Tardus Naval Port in Syria in 1971 without any real purpose for it.  With their ships welcomed in Algeria, Cuba or Vietnam, Tardus was too insignificant to be de ...

Asif Haroon Raja Creation of Pakistan on August 14, 1947 broke the century old shackles of bondage. Although a moth-eaten and truncated Pakistan, yet it was the largest Muslim nation in the world. Seventy million hearts of Pakistanis throbbed and pulsated with rapturous excitement and joy. The unfurling of the green and white banner raised their heads with pride and their jubilation knew no bounds. Their re ...

ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ, 25 ਫ਼ਰਵਰੀ (ਗੁਰਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਹਿਕ): ‘‘ਭਾਰਤੀ ਨੀਊਜ਼ ਏਜੰਸੀ ਪੀ.ਟੀ.ਆਈ. ਵਲੋਂ ਅੱਜ ਦੀਆਂ ਅਖ਼ਬਾਰਾਂ ਵਿਚ ਅਤੇ ਨੀਊਜ਼ ਚੈਨਲਾਂ ’ਤੇ ਸ. ਬਲਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਰਾਜੋਆਣਾ ਦੀ 16-02-2013 ਵਾਲੀ ਚਿੱਠੀ ਜੋ ਉਸੇ ਦਿਨ ਮੀਡੀਆ ਨੂੰ ਜਾਰੀ ਕਰ ਦਿਤੀ ਸੀ ਜਿਹੜੀ ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ ਪੰਥ ਦੇ ਨਾਮ ਲਿਖੀ ਗਈ ਸੀ, ਉਸ ਚਿੱਠੀ ਨੂੰ 8 ਦਿਨ ਬਾਅਦ ਬਹੁਤ ਹੁਣ ਗ਼ਲਤ ਅਤੇ ਗੁਮਰਾਹਕੁਨ ਢੰਗ ਨਾਲ ਪੇਸ਼ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ।’’ ਭਾਈ ਰਾਜੋਆਣਾ ਦੀ ਭੈਣ ਕਮਲਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਨੇ ਸਪੋਕਸਮੈਨ ਨੂੰ ਦਸਿਆ ਕਿ ਸ. ਬਲਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਰਾਜੋਆਣਾ ਨੇ ਇਹ ਚਿੱਠੀ ਅਫ਼ਜ਼ਲ ਗੁਰੂ ਨੂੰ ...

By Zaheerul Hassan On February 24, 2013 a serving Indian Army Col Ajay Chowdhary, Public Relation Officer (PRO) and Spokesman to its Army was arrested on Sunday for carrying drugs in Manipur.  According to TV reports, Col Ajay was arrested with five other people’s red handed for carrying drugs worth Rs 30 crores market value.   Arrested persons also include an Assistant manager of the leading airline in the ...