By Sajjad Shaukat Russia’s Defense Ministry hosted the fifth Moscow Conference on International Security, held in Moscow on April 27-28, 2016 with the participation of high military officials and experts from around the world to discuss the fight against terrorism and other pressing security challenges. Besides, security problems of Asian-Pacific region, war and peace problems in Europe as well as global se ...

By Asif Haroon Raja Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is credited for reversing the security situation during his extended six years tenure. Soon after he took over from Gen Pervez Musharraf as COAS in November 2007, he tasked the ISI under Lt Gen Shuja Pasha to regain lost intelligence space in FATA that had been surreptitiously captured by CIA and FBI by establishing outposts and creating TTP. He reverted army off ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although apparently, India claims to be the largest democracy, acting upon the principles of liberalism and secularism, yet since the leader of the ruling party BJP Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India, various extremist developments like unprecedented rise of Hindu extremism, persecution of minorities, forced conversions of other religious minorities into Hindus, ban on beef and c ...

By Asif Haroon Raja 11.5 million files leaked by a whistle blower from an offshore company in Panama and published by a German newspaper has created ripples in the world. These are just the first batch released and many more are likely to be made public. Leaks are not a new phenomenon when seen in context with WikiLeaks and Snowden’s revelations. Nothing came out of the two earthshaking exposures and those ...

نغمہ حبیب طالبان، القائدہ، آئی ایس آئی ایس نجانے کون کونسے نام ہیں لیکن مقصد صرف ایک ہے فساد پھیلانا اور فساد کے نام پر اسلام کو بدنام کرنا ۔ ورنہ اسلام کیسے اجازت دے سکتا ہے کہ کسی انسان کا خون بہاؤ وہ بھی کسی غریب راہ چلتے مسلمان کو مار کر، کسی خاندان کو اجاڑ کر کسی کو یتیم اور کسی کو بے اولاد کر کے پھر بھی کوئی جنت کی توقع کرے۔ کیا خلافت کا دعویٰ کرنے والوں نے اسلام ،پیغمبرﷺ اور صحابہ رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ ...

[caption id="attachment_13989" align="alignright" width="500"] Pathankot: An armored vehicle moves near the Indian Air Force base that was attacked by militants in Pathankot, Punjab on Saturday. PTI Photo (PTI1_2_2016_000051B)[/caption] By Sajjad Shaukat Being a peace-loving country, Pakistan is determined to promote peace in its neighborhood and the entire region in particular and the whole world in genera ...

By Sajjad Shaukat A massive leak of secret documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which were released on April 3, this year by the International Consortium of Invistigative Journalists (ICIJ) and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung allegedly show prominent world leaders, politicians and celebrities who hided millions in secret offshore tax shelters and used offshore accounts to evade tax law ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Terrorism which is inhuman has enveloped almost entire world in general and South Asia in particular. Pakistan is a country subjected to terrorism itself. Present military and civilian leadership is determined to unearth and root out the menace from its soil, because the survival of the country itself is at stake and the entire nation shares this resolve. However, various developments have ...