Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan has been continuously advocating peace talks with Taliban and insisting upon finding a political solution, but Kabul regime and Washington preferred brute force in Afghanistan. Pakistan was also advised to follow suit and pressured to launch another major operation in North Waziristan (NW) and eliminate safe havens of Haqqani network. Pakistan has all along helped Hamid Karzai regi ...

Asif Haroon Raja The new regime has been handed down a huge mess and is at a loss where to start from and which problem to tackle first. All macroeconomic indicators are in negative, national kitty is empty and foreign investment has dried up. It has inherited bankrupt economy, an unmanageable energy crisis, massive debt, lawlessness and fraught security situation. The new leaders are heard saying that they ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat Besides other aspects of the recently released report of Abbottabad Commission which was constituted to probe Abbottabad tragedy in which Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011, the statement of the former Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha is of particular attention. Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha revealed that Gen. Pervez Musharraf had caved in s ...

By Zaheerul Hassan First batch of 24 lady officers of Pakistani Army led by Captain Sadia completed airborne course in Peshawar. Captain Kirn Ashraf lifted the shield and declared the best paratrooper. In an impressive ceremony held at Tarbella Major General Abid Rafique, General officer Commanding of Special Services Group awarded the Para wing (Insignia) to the successful ladies officers.  At this histori ...

Pro-freedom leaders’ march foiled BY FAZIL QAYOOM Srinagar, July 13 (GNS) Kashmir Valley Saturday observed a complete shutdown to remember the martyrs of July 13, 1931 while the government imposed restrictions in some parts of old Srinagar to foil the march called by pro-freedom leaders towards Martyrs Graveyard Naqshband Sahab Shrine. The strike was called by both factions of Hurriyat Conference to remembe ...

By Zaheerul Hassan Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head in October 2012 by the terrorists of TTP was given a standing ovation at the United Nations on 12 July, 2013. She was shot for speaking out against terrorists, who destroyed girls’ schools and deadly against promoting women education. The complete world community appreciated her bravery, passion, strength and courage of rising up a ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat Youme Shuhada-e-Kashmir (Martyrs’ Day) is observed on July 13 every year on both sides of the Line of Control and all over the world by the Kashmiris to pay homage to 22 Kashmiris who were martyred in 1931 to free Kashmir from the brutalities of despotic Dogra rulers. The day is reminder of Indian state terrorism which still continues in order to crush the Kashmiri struggle against its il ...

Posted by Rida Zaheer Historical event of Cricket between two Common Wealth countaries statrted on  on 10 July 2013 when, from 11am, England take on Australia at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, a moment eagerly anticipated by players and supporters alike, not least because it's been known for an entire series to be shaped by events on the first morning. Whether they will still be as enthusiastic by 7 January ne ...