By    Mohammad Jamil The Pakistani Taliban has demanded release of militant prisoners and withdrawal troops from the tribal areas. “Pakistan must take steps which can develop an atmosphere of trust and can remove doubts and suspicion. We cannot move forward unless the government accepts our demands”, spokesman for the banned TTP told the BBC and western news agencies. As a gesture of goodwill or confidenc ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Rawalpindi: Interior Minister Nisar, Gen. Pervez Ashfaq Kayani, COAS, Gen Khalid Shamim Wayne CJCS along with other military and civil officials attended the funeral of three senior military officials who were martyred in a blast near Pak-Afghan border on 15 September 2013. Major General Sanaullah  Lt Colonel Tauseef and Lance Nayak Irfan Sattar were martyred in Upper Dir area when a road ...

[caption id="attachment_3368" align="alignright" width="304"] Indian masses protesting against corruption[/caption] By N Khan Pakistan is going through the economic turmoil which is result of multiple factors persisting over the decades. Amongst major causes of prevailing economic turbulence are corruption, misgovernance, lack of investment (mainly due to security reasons), inefficiency of government contro ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Delving into the history of Pak-US relations spread over six decades one finds that the US relationship was always transitory in nature. After the birth of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam and Liaquat Ali Khan managed to keep foreign influence at bay. Through their strength of superior leadership and character, they overcame plethora of teething problems mostly created by the British and India. Th ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat The targeted operation against terrorists, target killers, and kidnappers continues unabated, while the Rangers with the help of Police have arrested several criminals besides capturing huge catches of arms and weapons. The Present Government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif launched the present operation after obtaining consensus of all stakeholders like political parties, business co ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Having forcibly changed Qaddafi’s regime in Syria, the US and its western allies are now fully focused towards Syria since early 2011 to bring down Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Billions of dollars are being pumped in to support Syrian rebels and to keep the civil war inflamed. In April 2012 Summit held in Turkey and attended by 70 nations, a total of $ 100 million was pledged by Saudi Arabi ...

By By Mohammad Jamil The nation had mourned death of the Quaid on 11th September 1948, which was a premature death in the sense that he did not get time to translate his perception of state into action in the nascent state. The nation observes anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on this day, and special prayers are offered for the eternal peace of the great leader of subcontinent and founder of ...

 By     Mohammad Jamil In his forthcoming book ‘Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan’, the author Heraldo Munoz, who had led the UN investigation in Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, described that the Musharraf government facilitated the crime through its negligence. In the excerpts of the book he released last month to international media, he said that Tehree ...