“It is a twin-engined, twin-tailed aircraft….with four side windows, probably an eight-seater….it is flying at 3,000 ft AMSL. Request further instructions.” Flg Off Qais M Hussain, who had been scrambled from Mauripur Station to check a suspicious radar contact south-west of Bhuj, was reporting to the Ground Controlled Interception (GCI) controller at Badin’s FPS-20 radar.1…
Sahabzada Muhammad Yaqub Khan is part of that generation of the subcontinent that witnessed some of the most exciting events of the last seventy years. He was not only a witness but active participant in many events of these challenging times. Some events of his life seem to be the material for a novel rather…
A vast majority of people believe that Bhutto’s hanging was ‘judicial murder’, something that few would disagree with because of the controversial circumstances under which he was tried. The Supreme Court (SC) Bench that had heard the appeal gave a split verdict, yet Bhutto was executed. There are many who believe that Zardaris Presidential Reference…
No. I am not going to write about a song Brook Benton sang in the early 1960s and had the same title. I am writing about Pakistan’s relationship with the USA as far as Afghanistan goes. I do not believe that Pakistanis who dislike the US of A intensely want it to disappear from the…
The Islamophobes are making extensive use of electronic and print media especially the cyber space to unleash steams of propaganda based on half truths, creating more confusion by misrepresenting Islam also being done by the terrorists. These Islamophobes engage in “mental reservation” when they mention half- truths about Islam. Their methodology is to mix half-truths…
AbstractLeather tanneries is one of the 29 occupations that the government of Pakistan has listed in the worst forms of child labor and decided to free it from this men-ace. With the advent of the era of fast globalization, child labor drew equal attention from perpetrators as well as the protectors. In case of Leather…
Afghanistan is becoming another Vietnam for America. Since October10, 2001, the ravaged country, for consecutive nine years, has sucked the American and NATO troops and phenomenal resources, through consistently insane diplomacy. The resistance forces have not only succeeded in holding the aggressors, but have rather pushed them back on their heels. Seeing the momentum, the…
AbstractDimona nuclear reactor is purely a military facility situated in Negev desert near Dimona city of Israel and has covert nuclear program. In 1950s Israeli government received strategic and financial assistance from the U.S and France for the construction of this nuclear reactor. It is believed that this nuclear facilty has around 300 nuclear warheads….
The Past is Prelude‘Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it’.Anonymous In the last two hundred years, the remote and mysterious Afghanistan and its inhabitants catch international headlines in the context of internal power struggles and inevitable sucking in of outsiders. The context and cast of…
As the US Strategy Review on Afghanistan is nearing completion, divergent perceptions are being aired by statesmen, resistance leaders, think tanks, military organisations, eminent persons, lobbyists, well-wishers, spoilers etc. President Karzai spoke his heart out during an interview to the Washington Post. He has urged the United States to reduce the visibility and intensity of…
