SajjadShaukat                                                                  During his three-day visit to the United States, the DG of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam met CIA Director David Petraeus and senior American officials including lawmakers, especially emphasising upon them to halt drone attacks on Pakistan’s tribal region. It was his first official visit and of any ...

Statement by Ambassador Ron Prosor UN Security Council   23 April 2012 Posted By : Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_2451" align="alignright" width="244"] Israel Flag[/caption] Thank you, Madame President. Let me begin by thanking you, personally, for your outstanding leadership of the Security Council this month. Churchill once said, “In the time that it takes a lie to get halfway around the world, t ...

By Zaheerul Hassan A 23 former Air hostess of domestic a private airline has reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence in Ashok Vihar in North-West Delhi. According to the reports late Gitika Sharma has named Haryana minister Gopal Kanda in her suicide note. The police have registered a case of abetment of suicode against the minister.  Notably, Gitika was working for MDLR Airlines wh ...

United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was in Israel this week to talk with Israeli leaders about Iran’s nuclear program. Now the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot is reporting that Panetta shared America’s contingency plan in case talks with Iran fail to halt its nuclear program. Panetta may have shared the plan to assuage Israeli leaders’ concerns that the United States is putting undue confidence in ...

[caption id="attachment_2302" align="alignright" width="128"] Obama Worries. How to save Israel ?[/caption] By Laura Rozen July 28, 2012 "Al-Monitor" -- A US group that supports the Free Syrian Army has received a waiver from the US Treasury Department authorizing it to provide logistical and financial support to the armed Syrian resistance. The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of For ...

[caption id="attachment_2158" align="alignright" width="640"] Haqqani Group of Taliban[/caption] Asif Haroon Raja Haqqani Network (HN) under Sirajuddin Haqqani based in North Waziristan (NW) was declared the most dangerous outfit when it hit military targets in Kabul several times with impunity on September 13, 2011. Murder of Burhanuddin Rabbani on September 20, 2011 blocked the peace effort. These attacks ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat Famous political thinkers agree that a number of internal factors, system of government, geographical location, economic output etc. play a key role in formulating the foreign policy of a country, while national interest has primary importance. But this thesis is quite opposite to Pakistan’s political and religious parties which have always criticised the external policy of the country ...

Opening of Nato supplies is neither a victory nor defeat of Pakistan or USA. We can definitely call it the victory of principle stand of Pakistan which it took after the Salala incident. It’s very unfortunate that the Americans law makers, media and even the high officials misread Pakistan and leveled baseless allegations. Instead of appreciating, Wall Street Journal published that it’s not diplomatic victo ...