By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Armed Forces have broken the backbone of the foreign-backed terrorists by the successful military operation Zarb-e-Azb which has also been extended to other provinces of the country. While, Pakistan’s law-enforcing agencies, especially primary intelligence agency, ISI has broken the network of these terrorist groups by capturing several militants, while thwarting a number of ter ...

BY YASMEEN AFTAB ALI No handouts, no whitewash! [caption id="attachment_15167" align="alignright" width="455"] Pakistani residents cast their votes at a polling station in Islamabad on May 11, 2013. Pakistanis queued up to vote in landmark elections, defying Taliban attacks to cast their ballots in polls marking a historic democratic transition for the nuclear-armed state. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo c ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai If we were to judge the UN based upon its history of involvement in efforts to resolve international conflicts, the simplest answer is that it has been an enormous failure. The UN of course is a far more complex organization whose work covers such a wide range of activities that conflict resolution is really only a small aspect of its work. Nevertheless, if we consider the fact that i ...

by Asif Haroon Raja The two leading US think tanks namely ‘Hudson Institute’ and the ‘Heritage Foundation’ have advised the Donald Trump administration to adopt tough measures against Pakistan. In their view Pakistan is not doing enough in controlling terrorism and is making its soil available for export of terrorism into Afghanistan, thereby threatening the US vital security interests in the region. They h ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Every year, the martyrdom anniversary of Muhammad Afzal Gur is being celebrated on the 9th of February to pay homage to him, as India secretly hanged him and buried inside the Tihar jail complex on February 9, 2013. His martyrdom resulted into protests in Kashmir and widespread condemnations from various political and human rights organisations. Afzal Guru was convicted in 2001 Parliament ...

Posted by Zaheerul Hassan Strategy teams are closeted in ‘war rooms’, hunched-hooked over computers Leading an army: Captain Amarinder Singh at a meeting in Bathinda on 30 th January 2017 (Monday). Poll strategist Prashant Kishor is in command of his campaign. 1. Sardar Manpreet Singh Badal seems looking surprisingly at the face of Captain Amarinder Singh keeping in view of and facing ‘THE POLL STRATEGIC-TA ...

By Sajjad Shaukat During and after the presidential election campaign, taking note of the US new President Donald Trump’s religious bigotry, racialism and extremist statements such as calling a “ban on Muslims entering the United States”, “Islam hate us”, opposition to the Muslim refugees, especially from Syria etc., some writers, researches and bloggers, including American politicians have called him a “cr ...

افغان حکومت اورحزبِ اسلامی کے معاہدے کے بعدپہلی مرتبہ حکمت یار باقاعدہ طورپرکابل آنے کی تیاریوں میں مصروف ہیں تاکہ وہاں بیٹھ کرآئندہ انتخابات میں حصہ لینے کیلئے اپنی سیاسی سرگرمیوں کاآغازکیاجاسکے جس کیلئے ان کی آمدسے قبل ان کی حفاظت کیلئے حزبِ اسلامی کے وفادارچارسوسے زائدکمانڈوزکی تربیت کاآغازکردیاگیاہے اوران میں سے ایک سو کمانڈوزحزبِ اسلامی کے سربراہ کی حفاظت کیلئےمامورہوں گے۔حزبِ اسلامی کے ماہراورپرانے فو ...