Pakistan is writing a classic military history of the blow-by-blow fighting against insurgents. Military law enforcement operations in Waziristan, Swat, Dir, and recently in Tirah valley make an irrefutable case for where the laurels lay for the victories and where the blame lies for the retreats. Lack of Civil-military coordination and gap of communication or…
The newly formed government led by Muslim League (N) announced its first budget recently and as usual it rated it people, business and investment-friendly. On the other hand, the Opposition, business community and trades at large habitually labeled it anti-people, anti-business and anti-trade, etc. The tug of war about the merits and demerits of the…
IntroductionLove stories of army officers have often ended in tragedy but then whosoever wore the uniform he accepted the risk of being killed. Between January 1944 and March 1944, my battalion lost 8 officers (Lt Col ROUSE, Maj UWINS, Maj BURFIELD, Maj OAKES, Lt TAREEN, Lt BROWN, Lt GRAHAM and Lt TOWERS), the rest were…
IntroductionSomething that suggests the presence or existence of a fact, condition, or quality is called ‘sign’. Sign could also be in the form of miracle as evidence of the existence of a supernatural power or authority. Miracle is an extraordinary event attributed to a supernatural power. The ancient people considered Miracle as an event in…
Historical BackgroundThe Israelites while settling in the blessed land of Palestine ruled for a very long time and extended their kingdom to immeasurable boundaries. Allah, the Almighty had chosen many Prophets from among them and gave them a Holy Book, the Torah to follow. Hazrat Dawud and his son Hazrat Solomon were very famous and…
Vali Nasr’s latest work The Dispensable Nation is a tour of the back alleys of diplomacy with all the cat fights of bureaucracy as well as a broad review of U.S. policy and some prescriptions about the future course. Part of the book is based on his experience of working inside the tent, he was…
In the past decades, PAF aviators have regularly taken off for assigned duties – both combat and routine – with the knowledge that, if they bailed out, especially in hostile territory, their comrades would not hesitate to risk their own lives in an effort to rescue them. PAF has ample experiences of its own from…
As John Kerry circumvented Islamabad, Special Representative James Dobbins and Prime Minister David Cameron strived to wear his shoes. After a pro-India statement in New Delhi asking India to play a central role in Afghanistan, and with no tangible proposals with regard to Drone attacks, Kerry hardly had a chance of meaningful engagement with the…
Final countdown begins. The country to host World Expo 2020 will be decided in November 2013. All the four candidate cities i.e. Dubai (UAE), São Paulo (Brazil), Yekaterinburg (Russia) and Izmir (Turkey) have already submitted their final presentations/proposals to Bureau International des Expositions (BIE). Thailand has been disqualified by the BIE. The UAE’s strategic position…
Declaring a State of Emergency on Nov 3, 2007, Musharraf held the Constitution of Pakistan “in Abeyance.” Article 6, Clause (1) in effect on November 3rd, 2007 did not describe “holding the Constitution in Abeyance” as an “Act of High Treason”. This clause was substituted and “Abeyance” was inserted into the Constitution with the Eighteenth…
