Capt Umair Abdullah Abbasi from Murree embraced shahaadat today in Shawaal. May God give strength and patience to his family. Pakistan Army is in the way of consolidation of operation against Indian supported TTP in FATA  ...

By Rida Zaheer Crciket teams of two traditional rivals are again going to face each other on 28 February 2016 in Mirpur, Bangladesh. It would be day night cricket match. Shahid Afridi and Dhoni will lead their respective sided. Pakistan team is ints full form since its players participated in recently held Pakistan Supper League at Duabai. The cricket phobia in both the countries is on its peaks. Pakistani ...

By Sajjad Shaukat International community is so focused on the double standard of the United States in Syria that it has ignored America’s similar policy in South Asia, which also needs appropriate attention. In this regard, the US expressed concern on February 12, this year over the security of Pakistan’s tactical nuclear weapons. The statement followed the US announcement about its intention to sell eight ...

By Asif Haroon Raja General Afghanistan is connected with South Asia, Middle East and Central Asia. It shares 1400 km border with Pakistan and its 42% of Afghan Pashtuns share religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural ties with 15.2 million Pakistani Pashtuns. Pashtuns living in close vicinity of Durand Line have blood relations and the border has never acted as a barrier in their cross border movement. Pa ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on his return from KPK chaired a meeting ofcorps commanders at GHQ Rawalpindi on, 10th February, 2016. In this conference, the military leadership has reviewed the progress of operation Zarb-e-Azb and emphasized on the need of eliminating terrorism, requirement of giving special focus on return of Temporarily Displaced Persons (TDPs) to the ...

By Sajjad Shaukat If we take note of the US strategy about Pakistan in the past few years, we observe that American policy goals are quite unclear, as America follows a double game. Sometimes, US top officials admire Pak Army’s action against the Taliban militants including arrests of the top Al Qaeda commanders by Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), sometimes, they revive their blame game, ISI allege ...

By Sajjad Shaukat As regards terrorism, Machiavelli advises the rulers to have a lion-like image outwardly, and act upon the traits of goat inwardly. He also suggests them foreign adventures and the use of terror to obtain their goals. In his sense, a good ruler should be a good opportunist and hypocrite. While echoing Machiavelli, Morgenthau points out that sometimes, rulers act upon immoral activities lik ...

By Sajjad Shaukat The 11th of February is being celebrated as the martyrdom anniversary of Maqbool Bhat who was hanged by the then Indian regime on February 11, 1984 in Tihar Jail as the reprisal expressed by New Delhi. He was hanged to take the revenge of the killing of an Indian Diplomat by some unknown organization claiming to be Kashmiri. It was an act of shame for a country called India, as even after ...