By Asif Haroon Raja The US leaders and media often cite Pakistan as the epicentre of terrorism. If it is true, it didn’t attain this status at its own. Outsiders are responsible for making Pakistan epicenter of terrorism and the most dangerous country. Ironically, the ones responsible for converting a law abiding and peaceful country into a volatile country are today in the forefront censuring it. Till the ...

 By Zaheerul Hassan Since couple of decades, South Asian masses are undergoing various types of troubles starting from poverty to interstate conflicts. Instead, alleviating the life of poor people   and respecting their rights, the countries’ interests mainly revolve around; piling up of arms, hegemonic desires of controlling natural resources and achieving regional domination. Moreover, major regional coun ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The US and the Western world’s deep-seated interest in the strategically important and oil-rich Middle East are well known. In order to maintain control over oil wells and to keep sea lanes and choke points in Indian Ocean open, the British Empire in line with its policy of divide and rule, split up the Ottoman Empire in 1918 into small Muslim States and installed puppet rulers. By 1923, ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Kakul , Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani reviewed an impressive Passing out parade of 128th PMA Long Course, 25 th Technical Graduate Course , 47 th Integrated Course , 11 Ladies Cadet Course  and 2nd  Mujahid Course at Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, as the chief guest on Saturday. The passing out parade of Pakistan Army’s 128th long course was held at the Milit ...

By Abu Ezaan In Pakistan, often an argument in favour of extended Chinese involvement in Afghanistan is proffered on the pretext that any such development would be in our strategic interests in the region.  Presumably, greater Chinese involvement in Afghanistan is reckoned as a rational to offset negative US presence that consistently advances Indian interests.  Here, it is assumed that Pakistan and China w ...

 By Mohammad Jamil Recent terrorist attacks in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), targeting a Police Station and a Military Camp, killing a Lieutenant Colonel and fourteen others including Police and Army officers, are indeed condemnable. The terrorists had disguised using Indian Army uniform and managed to enter Heera Nagar Police Station in Samba. Later hijacking a truck, they attacked the Base Camp of a Cava ...

                                           By   Mohammad Jamil According to Additional Inspector General of Karachi Police Shahid Hayat, the detained suspect MQM worker Kazim Abbas Rizvi, had killed Advocate Naimat Ali Randhawa for pursuing the case of TV reporter Wali Khan Babar who had been killed in 2011. He said Advocate Randhawa’s murder was a “politically motivated targeted killing”. Addressing a pres ...

 by Asif Haroon Raja The Army and paramilitary forces are fighting a guerrilla war against home based militants in the northwest since 2002 without a break. The militants are Islamists waging an ideological war to establish Islamic Caliphate. They neither believe in Pakistan’s constitution nor in democracy saying these are of western model and anti-Islamic. They had picked up arms against the state in react ...