By Alauddin Masood Finally, Pakistan and Iran have agreed to give a concrete shape to the $7.5 billion Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project with groundbreaking ceremony on March 11, this year. The presidents of both the countries will preside over the ceremony to be held at Gabd zero point on the Pakistan-Iran border. Pakistan and Iran commissioned, February 27th, 2013 a joint contracting company to begi ...

By Rida Zaheer According to ISPR, the 158th Corps Commanders’ Conference was held at General Headquarters on Thursday. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani chaired the meeting. Apart from professional military matters, the meeting under took a comprehensive review of internal and external security environment of the country. The meeting also discussed the law and order situation in Karach ...

Posted By Rida Zaheer Syrian rebels seized 21 U.N. peacekeepers from the Philippines on 6 MARCH 2013 in a bid to convince President Bashar al-Assad pull back from a rebel-held village near the Golan Heights. In a video posted to the Internet, a man claiming to be the spokesman for the rebel Martyrs of Yarmouk Brigades said that his men will hold the peacekeepers until Assad's forces withdraw from Jamlah, wh ...

By: Shamshad Ahmad In an unlettered society where one rarely comes across people genuinely into writing or reading and where books are sold not by content but by weight as a waste paper commodity and where book stores are disappearing fast getting converted into video shops or burger stands, the arrival of every single new book by a Pakistani author is freshening expression of a resolve not to give up the b ...

 Venezuelan nation will never forget  their leader  Hugo Chavez who put the country on track and always preferred to live with dignity and houner. His revolutionary steps really changed the life style of  the masses. The article "Hugo Chavez Frias, Rest in Power: Eres de los muertos que nunca mueren! " written by Daniel is posted here  for readers consumption .  (By Zaheerul Hassan) By Daniel Patrick Welch ...

Asif Haroon Raja While George W Bush led regime of neo-cons had initiated the insane war on the pretext of 9/11 attacks, Obama administration took no steps to wind down the war after taking over in January 2009 by which time the futility of war and hidden motives had been exposed. Rather, the Democrats accelerated the war and introduced drone war to further fuel terrorism. Under the cover of war on terror, ...

The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers are funding a project that uses crowdsourcing to improve how machines analyze our speech. Even more radical: Darpa wants to make systems so accurate, you’ll be able to easily record, transcribe and recall all the conversations you ever have. Analyzing speech and improving speech-to-text machines has been a hobby horse for Darpa in recent years. But this takes it a step fu ...

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER ‘The death toll rose to at least 37 in violence sparked by a controversial death sentence handed down against the head of an Islamic party for war crimes committed during the country's 1971 war of independence’, reported The Los Angeles Times on the first day of this March. The paper further says, ‘Tensions have been running high in recent weeks as verdicts were announced in the tria ...