[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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Washington, D.C. Tuesday, July 10, 2012 [caption id="attachment_2056" align="alignright" width="212"] KashmirI Lake[/caption] Saying goodbye is sometimes easy but sometimes a very difficult thing to do, particularly when I am saying goodbye, though temporarily, to freedom and to a mission that I have given my life to.  But the real goodbye is not the words that I have formed in my head b ...

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 ...

Eschmall Sardar, Pakistan and the US looked close to a breakthrough as the meeting of Defence Committee of Cabinet came to on the heels of overnight talks between top Pakistan and US officials to narrow down their differences. It was the second time in less than a week that the ISAF Commander, John Allen, landed in Pakistan to help break the impasse on restoration of NATO supplies. He, along with US deputy ...

  By Sajjad Shaukat In the last few weeks, conflicting are coming about the success of Pak-US negotiations in order to reach an agreement in connection with the reengagement of Pakistan with America as last year, Pakistan closed ground supply routes through its territory to Afghanistan to protest a cross-border NATO air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. [caption id="attachment_1751" align="alignrigh ...

Domestic political pressure on the government persists, and the possibility  remains that the prime minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, may be ousted. Government effectiveness is also low, and it could worsen further as a consequence of the current political uncertainty. The likelihood of an early general election has increased significantly (the poll does not have to be held until February 2013). The killing by U ...