By Sajjad Shaukat No doubt, media have been playing a key role by educating and guiding the people regarding various developments and issues which have been taking place on global and regional level. Being the fourth pillar of the state, especially electronic media have brought the matters of public interest and bloody battles into our bedrooms. Thus, it has made difficult for the politicians to wage ...

        By Sajjad Shaukat After the World War I, Turkish Empire was broken by the imperialist powers, as it was convenient for the latter to control small Muslim states. In one way or the other, the same practice continues by some foreign countries which are acting upon their covert agenda in further weakening the Islamic countries on ethnic and sectarian lines. In this regard, being the lonely nuclear stat ...

By Asif Haroon Raja When war against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan was won by the Mujahideen duly supported by Pakistan in 1989, the US claimed that the war couldn’t have been won without surface to air stinger missiles. In its view, stingers made the difference and forced the Soviets to beat a hasty retreat. In the ongoing war on terror in which the US for all practical purposes has lost the war and its ...

  By Zaheerul Hassan A reputed Pakistan’s best known police-commander, Superintendent of Police (SP) Crime Investigation Department (CID) Chaudhry Aslam, near Essa Nagri embraced Shahdat in suicidal blast at the Lyari Expressway in Karachi today. Banned organization Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the blast. TTP also attacked his house in 2011. Just after the blast, TTP spokespe ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past era, the two warring parties used to follow the rules of the game and Geneva Conventions, while knowing each other’s target. Contrarily, war against terrorism is quite different, as it is against an invisible, mysterious and merciless enemy which does not respect any rule.  It is a war in which offence knows its target, but defence does not know. In this regard, during the last ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Learning from his folly of sidelining most deserving and senior most Lt Gen Ali Kuli Khan and appointing Gen Pervez Musharraf as COAS in October 1998, PM Nawaz Sharif this time acted sensibly. Hullabaloo made by the media over delay in announcing the names of new CJCSC and COAS and then the supersession of Lt Gen Haroon Aslam was soon drowned after he appointed second and third senior mo ...

Asif Haroon Raja After nine-month Indian aided insurgency, the Indian Army launched a three directional offensive and managed to conquer East Pakistan in 1971 without crossing a single major river and without reducing any of the towns converted into fortresses. Jessore and Mymensingh had been abandoned and not captured. The much trumpeted counter offensive in the West conceived to release pressure on the ea ...

Asif Haroon Raja Although maligned by all and sundry, the fact is that all the bosses of Gen Yahya Khan in the Army gave him excellent reports and none doubted his military capabilities. Notwithstanding his failings, he was not corrupt and sincerely wanted to resolve the East Pakistan crisis to the best of his abilities. But he neither had political experience nor much understanding of political and constit ...