The strategic partnership agreement signed by Afghanistan and India during Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visit to New Delhi has decisively puts India in the centre stage of the endgame in Afghanistan as it awaits the US and NATO to pull out of that...

Recently, Pentagon released the summary of an inquiry into the death of a US serviceman, Army Major Larry Bauguess, who was shot dead in an ugly incident at the Pak Afghan border on May 9, 2007. At that time, officials in the US military had claimed...

Mamoona Ali Kazmi Recently, Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs Jitendra Singh alleged that Pakistan’s spy agency, the ISI, has “reactivated” terror camps in Pakistani Kashmir with some 2,500 terrorists present there. He accused...

Momin Iftikhar National Interest and threat perception are the bedrock of national policies and form the basis of the diplomatic endeavors pursued by any nation. During last decade the threat scenario for Pakistan has undergone a major transformation...

Momin Iftikhar Pakistan is verily a gift of Allah to the Muslims of the subcontinent. It was not presented in a platter and owes its emergence to the sagacity, vision, and tenacity of a string of distinguished Muslim leaders coupled with the...

By Ishaal Zehra Pakistan as a country and Pakistani people as a nation are going through very tough times. John Kerry, the first American politician to visit Pakistan since Osama bin Laden was shot dead in the incident of unilateral action by the US...

It’s not Muslims, but Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activists who planned and executed the bomb blasts at Malegaon in 2006, on the Samjhauta Express in 2007, in Ajmer Sharif in 2007 and Mecca Masjid in 2007,” confessed Swami Aseemanand, the main...

The Russian capital Moscow’s busiest airport Domodedovo witnessed the first terrorist attack of the New Year 2011 on the 24th of January. At least 34 people were killed and more than 180 injured in the blast which occurred inside the...

There exist a misperception that Pakistan has not implemented the UNCIP resolutions of August 13, 1948 and January 5, 1949. Indeed, this is an allegation, taken as an excuse by Indian authorities for the non-implementation of these two famous...

English daily of a group known for anti-Zardari policies has published a story the other day that Zardari House in Dubai has managed to get 150 visas issued to Americans, Indians and Britons showing utter disregard to the policy that Pakistan embassies...