Asif Haroon Raja Election fever which gripped the nation from April 21 subsided on May 11 after results were announced. Election results generated mixed feelings of joys and sorrows. The outright victors were overjoyed and celebrated their victory with heartiness. The losers mourned their loss and tried to lessen their grief by saying that elections were rigged and results manipulated. Partial victors rem ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The heavy mandate Nawaz Sharif’s rule came to an abrupt end after two years eight months as a result of military coup by Gen Musharraf on October 12, 1999. He was later on exiled for ten years. After 9/11, Musharraf was coerced and induced by the US and led to believe that partnership with USA would uplift Pakistan’s depressed fortunes and pave the way for prosperity. He was assured that ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The US sole worry is to ensure safe and smooth withdrawal of US-NATO troops. At the same time it wishes to ensure peaceful transition of power in Afghanistan and to leave behind stable Afghanistan under a US friendly regime. Another aspect which is yet to be decided is the size of residuary force that will be left behind after 2014. Kabul government has yet not given blanket diplomatic i ...

By Rajeesh  Left with only a few days of freedom, Sanjay Dutt reportedly feels “betrayed” by his co-stars. The Arnold Schwarzenegger of India has apparently vented his anger that Bollywood has let him down. The actor, who has been convicted for the illegal purchase of firearms from the culprits behind the 1993 Mumbai blasts, is going through a tough ordeal. He is reportedly busy these days wrapping up work ...

By Zaheerul Hassan and Sajjad Shaukat According to Israeli news agency, on May 7, 2013, Israel’s Ministry of Finance published a new austerity economic plan, with a view to reduce the country’s 11 billion U.S. dollars of budget deficit.  The Israeli cabinet will vote on the new budget, along with the Economic Arrangements Bill, which includes legislative changes as part of the economical policy. But focus o ...

China-India relations By Brigadier Arun Sahgal, PhD (Retd) In 2009, media was abuzz with a revelation that China had replicated the whole of Aksay Chin and a large part of disputed Indo-China border in a large sized sand model over area equivalent to the size of six cricket fields thousands of kilometers away in Huanyangton village near Yinchuan in Ningxia autonomous region (Northern China). The fundamental ...

By Sajjad Shaukat In the past few years, many serious crises erupted in Pakistan when leaders of some political parties and media anchors spread rumours that army will impose martial law in the country. But Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani acted upon the principle of non-interference in politics. While, people witnessed that the coalition government completed its tenure of five years. These int ...

Posted by Rida Zaheer According to reliable sources from Israel disclosed that their planes have launched a strike inside Syria from Lebanese air space. Their target was a shipment of arms destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah.  However, officials of both Israel and Syria have not yet commented on the strike.  Earlier, Israel launched a similar strike over Hezbollah-bound arms convoy in January this area. Meanwh ...