Asif Haroon Raja [caption id="attachment_2798" align="alignright" width="245"] Map; North-Waziristan-Pakistan[/caption] After two years and seven months of sustained pressure, the US seems to have finally succeeded in cornering Pakistan and making it agree to launch an operation in North Waziristan (NW). Pak Army has been reluctant to do so because of its genuine constraints. Notwithstanding the numerous di ...

By Zahir Kazmi [caption id="attachment_2794" align="alignright" width="302"] Protest Against Indian Nuclear Security[/caption] In a September 1967 speech, V.C. Trivedi, the Indian Ambassador to an early UN arms control effort known as the Eighteen Nations Committee on Disarmament, said that developing countries could tolerate nuclear weapons apartheid, but not an atomic apartheid that prevented them from at ...

[caption id="attachment_2790" align="alignright" width="241"] Map of Pak-Afghanistan[/caption] By Brig (R) Sher Shah Mr Zahid Hussain’s, article “Conspiratorial Paranoia” in Dawn of August 28, is a good piece of reflection of our confused hypothesisation of internal threats. Mr Zahid has made three points; firstly, the retired army generals while on talk shows profess more of foreign hands in militant threa ...

[caption id="attachment_2765" align="alignright" width="224"] Mullah Omer[/caption] Letter to Editor As the UnitedStates has issued a warning to its citizens travelling to Pakistan in the wakeof possible terror threats in the country, the top American general, JohnAllen, who is commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in anarticle published on Tuesday that the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, wa ...

  [caption id="attachment_2756" align="alignright" width="254"] COAS -Pakistan Army[/caption]           By Sajjad Shaukat An article by Khaled Ahmed under the caption, “General Kayani’s War”, published in The Express Tribune on August 26, 2012 is no more than a fictitious story against Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. While showing illogical approach, the writer has tried to ...

 By James M. Dorsey [caption id="attachment_2714" align="alignright" width="169"] Tarir Square Egypt[/caption] Synopsis The rise of Islamist forces in the complicated post-revolt transition in the Middle East and North Africa may have an impact on post-Soviet states in Central Asia, that are still struggling with transition to democracy or have yet to experience popular revolts. Commentary Two years ago, th ...

PR Chari [caption id="attachment_2710" align="alignright" width="240"] Indian Nuclear Plants[/caption] Visiting Professor, IPCS email: ruhee.neog@ipcs.org Call it unintended irony. But India’s Foreign Minister and National Security Adviser using a forum to discuss the resurrected Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan and the Holy Grail of nuclear disarmament to emphasise India’s devotion to nuclear deterrence is surely ...

[caption id="attachment_2689" align="alignright" width="219"] Indina Poor Nuclear Security Danger to Globe[/caption]               By Sajjad Shaukat Overtly, US high officials state that they seek stability in Pakistan, but covertly, they continue to destabilise this country through multi-faceted subversive activities of the American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad. With the assistance of these secret ag ...