Asif Haroon Raja The US obsession for North Waziristan (NW) started in early2010. It was described as the major problem area for the ISAF where supposedly theentire leadership of al-Qaeda including Osama bin Laden (OBL) was headquarteredand involved in cross border terrorism. After the emasculation of al-Qaeda anddeath of OBL, threat perception suddenly shifted towards Haqqani Network (HN).It was all ...

    By Sajjad Shaukat Famous political thinkers agree that a number of internal factors, system of government, geographical location, economic output etc. play a key role in formulating the foreign policy of a country, while national interest has primary importance. But this thesis is quite opposite to Pakistan’s political and religious parties which have always criticised the external policy of the country ...

Asif Haroon Raja War on terror initiated by the US in October 2001 is still continuing with no end in sight. In Afghanistan, the initiative is in the hands of the Taliban. The ISAF despite its massive superiority in men and material and in technology has become so vulnerable and fragile that it has decided to quit by end 2014. While ISAF under Gens McChrystal, Petraeus and Allen resorted to policy of brutal ...

  In today’s date suicide bombing is a curse familiar to all and is being used to terrorize people psychologically. Suicide bombing first originated as a political tool in the 1980s,in 1982, radical elements of the Shiite resistance in southern Lebanon joined together in the Bekka Valley to form Hezbollah. After that the trend picked up popularity among many terrorist groups as a way to achieve their m ...

[caption id="attachment_1950" align="alignright" width="133"] Nato Supply Routes through Pakistan[/caption] Amina Mazhar On the 4th of July 2012 the cabinet endorsed the decision of the DCC to reopen the NATO supplies that were closed for the last seven months when the US apologized for the Salala check post attack, which resulted in the martyrdom of our troops. This decision can have far reaching consequen ...

Zaheerul Hassan US coming elections are influencing Khaleeji politics and also pressurized to European allies to put embargo on Iranian oil shipment to the other countries. In this connection, European Union restriction on Iranian oil imports came into effect on First day of July 2012. In this response, the Iranian parliament drafted a bill to block oil shipments to countries cooperating in punitive sanctio ...

One of my Sikh readers sent me an email about the conspiracy going against Sikh nation while inducting RAW agents in the Sikh organization and also sending Sikh individuals in the neighbouring countries for subversive activities.   I am posting the same email for the readers’ consumption to know the RAW’ s motives against Sikh nation. Indian Infiltration of Sikh Organizations RAW agent Dr.Amarjit Singh The ...

  Beenish Javed (a TV Reporter) & Nasir Ahmad Waqif, (an Afghan Journalist) It is encouraging to note that the saner voices in Afghanistan do recognize the efforts being made by Pakistan as sincere and towards making a long-term peace paradigm in the region. A senior official of Pakistan foreign office said that Pakistan was willing to facilitate peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan, but ...