Asif Haroon Raja Afghanistan shares 1400 km border with Pakistan. Apart from geographic contiguity, 42% Pashtuns of 28 million population of Afghanistan share religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural ties with 15.2 million Pashtuns of 174 million population of Pakistan. Pashtuns living in close vicinity of Durand Line have blood relations and the border line has never acted as a barrier in their cross bor ...

Asif Haroon Raja   Historically Pak-US relationship has always been marked by convergence and divergence of national interests that kept on switching from friendship to friction. The US gained more during the times of convergence of interests but periods of divergence outweighed the former.  Although Pakistan earned the title of ‘most allied ally of USA’, it is also the most sanctioned country in the world. ...

Asif Haroon Raja Afghanistan shares 1400 km border with Pakistan. Apart from geographic contiguity, 42% Pashtuns of 28 million population of Afghanistan share religious, ethnic, linguistic and cultural ties with 15.2 million Pashtuns of 174 million population of Pakistan. Pashtuns living in close vicinity of Durand Line have blood relations and the border line has never acted as a barrier in their cross bor ...

By Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman [caption id="attachment_3445" align="alignright" width="450"] Hurricane destroyed U.S.[/caption] NEW YORK | Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:47am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm Sandy, which knocked out power to huge swathes of the nation's most densely populated region, ...

Hurricane Sandy cannot be attributed to climate change, but warming does mean there is more moisture in the atmosphere. As I write this, Hurricane Sandy's minimum central pressure has dropped to a stunning 940 millibars, meaning that air is rising in this storm in a way similar to a Category 4 hurricane. Sandy is strengthening as it approaches an East Coast landfall tonight—even as the storm also undergoes ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan [caption id="attachment_3433" align="alignright" width="355"] Golden Temple[/caption] 28 Years after the organized and systematic killing of Sikhs in India, Honorable Warren Entsch, an Australian Federal Member of Parliament will present a "Genocide Petition" before Australian Parliament. The "Genocide" petition will be tabled before the "House of Representatives" during Adjournmen ...

By Sajjad Shaukat [caption id="attachment_3428" align="alignright" width="349"] Malala Yousafzai-A Vicitim of TTP[/caption] Debate on the tragic incident of a 14-year-old girl Malala Yousafzai, a female child educator, who was brutally shot in Swat on October 9, reduced in Pakistan. But, under the cover of attack on Malala by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which claimed responsibility for this heinous ...

By Cdr (R) Abdul Lateef Saudi Navy [caption id="attachment_3409" align="alignright" width="170"]  Abdul Lateef Al-Mulhim (Retired commodore in the Saudi Navy)[/caption] Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war between the Arabs and Israel broke out. The war lasted only 20 days. The two sides were engaged in two other major wars, in 1948 and 1967. The 1967 War lasted only six days. But, th ...