Elections 2013 is over. Post elections political heat is also going to cool. Dust of defeat and rigging is confronting in different parts of the country. PML-N Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif’s sher is roaring. Tehrik-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan’s tsunami has already hit the mountainous areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The new change has many prospects and…
“China and Pakistan have shaped a paradigm of neighbour-to-neighbour relations. Their time-tested friendship, described by some as “higher than the mountains and deeper than the oceans,” is not just a bunch of empty words,” a commentary in the state-run Xinhua news agency said as Premier Li Keqiang began his short visit to Pakistan on Wednesday,…
Lieutenant General Shah Rafi Alam – Addendum Lieutenant General Shah Rafi Alam was from 5th PMA course. In 1951, relations between India and Pakistan deteriorated and both countries moved troops to the borders; this was later known as ‘1951 Flap’. It was decided to shorten 5th PMA course by one term and pass them out…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Bomb BlastsAt least 45 persons were killed and another 70 were injured in a huge explosion that ripped through a Shia-majority neighbourhood in Karachi (Karachi District), the provincial capital of Sindh, on March 3, reports The News. Three relatives of Sindh Assembly Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza and several women and children…
The Nov 26, 2011 Salala incident when 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed on an attack by US Apache helicopters, an AC-130 gunship and two F- I5E fighter aircraft on two Pakistani border outposts capped a hard six months after Osama Bin Laden was disposed off in a US raid on his secret hideaway in Abbottabad…
Dear Readers,Not too long ago, former President Pervez Musharraf was called ‘America’s most important ally in the war on terrorism’ by the Bush administration. Since then many things have changed and for Musharraf it has been downhill all the way after his return to Pakistan from self exile. By ignoring pleas and warnings by his…
The US agenda with Pakistan pre-9/11 was, in order of priority viz (1) nuclear non-proliferation (2) terrorism and (3) drugs, with the Taliban government in Afghanistan figuring prominently in the last two issues. The reason for our nuclear assets and the means to deliver them is not complicated, we live in a very tough neighbourhood…
The phrase “may you live in interesting times” is a Chinese curse heaped on an enemy. Frederic Coudert quotes an unknown British diplomat in 1936, “no age has been fraught with more insecurity than our present time”, three years later the Second World War ravaged the world between 1939 and 1945. We in Pakistan have…
As opposed to the 15th of March (the Roman “Ides of March”), the entire month of March seems linked with Pakistan’s destiny. March 23 marks the 1940 Resolution for the muslims of South Asia aspiring for a separate homeland, the fateful Army action in Dhaka in 1971 started late evening of March 25. By early…
Afghanistan is passing through unfortunate times. Three streams of fragile transition are in progress; all in an indecent haste to meet the 2014 timeline. These are in security, political and economic domains. Though political transition holds the key to success; it is the patchiest of all. Transfer of power to President Karzai’s successor having enough…
