By Zaheerul Hassan On 21 July 2012, Foreign Sponsored elements are hit a security checkpost located in Pishukan area of Gwadar. In this militant attack, six security personnel were killed and four others injured when unknown terrorists fired rockets at security.  The local administration and Levies personnel reached the scene and shifted the injured to hospital.  The security forces cordoned off the area af ...

[caption id="attachment_2158" align="alignright" width="640"] Haqqani Group of Taliban[/caption] Asif Haroon Raja Haqqani Network (HN) under Sirajuddin Haqqani based in North Waziristan (NW) was declared the most dangerous outfit when it hit military targets in Kabul several times with impunity on September 13, 2011. Murder of Burhanuddin Rabbani on September 20, 2011 blocked the peace effort. These attacks ...

Asif Haroon Raja No sooner Barack Obama sat in the seat of president he started to growl at Pakistan. He stated that US forces would carry out unilateral action inside FATA whenever actionable intelligence was available. Propaganda war was stepped up to malign Pakistan’s institutions and drone war accelerated to fuel terrorism. Besides the US media and think tanks, every second US official used foul languag ...

By Imran Malik In a blatant display of overwhelming power and clout, the US forced Pakistan’s hand in the nerve wrecking and vital battle of wits for the Nato supply routes and by implication the future of its Afghan campaign. The US pressure tactics included a double pincer movement of sorts, comprising a strategic and an economic prong targeting Pakistan’s obvious vulnerabilities. The [caption id="attachm ...

Asif Haroon Raja  The might of US military-NATO got bogged down in the swamp of Afghanistan, rather than making corrections at its end, Pentagon and CIA made Pakistan a scapegoat and blamed it for all their faults. Finding no explanation to offer for their dismal performance despite enjoying all the strategic and technical advantages, the US after playing up extremist threat to the integrity of Pakistan and ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Since the Supreme Court of Pakistan has been hearing the cases of the missing persons of Balochistan by taking notice of the deteriorating law and order situation, the province has perennial been in the limelight. [caption id="attachment_2111" align="alignright" width="109"] Love Pakistani Balochistan[/caption] While hearing a petition, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on July 12 o ...

Maimuna Ashraf Finally a decided decision has explicitly declared, NATO supply has been resumed since the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was ‘sorry’ for the loss of life in a botched air raid.  This sorry is being issued after seven months of the demise of twenty-four Pakistani soldiers, who lost their lives as a result of NATO attack on Pakistani military check post. The US [caption id="att ...

Asif Haroon Raja Obama worries about Pakistan’s disintegration and safety ofits nuclear warheads. In reality he and his team are least concerned aboutPakistan’s fragmentation since this has been among the many goals Washingtonhad perceived at the time of invading Afghanistan. Real concern is the nukesand not the fate of Pakistan. The US has already started seeing Pakistan as afailing state at the brink of c ...