Letter to Editor
They say “Don’t celebrate the death of foes because even friends are not immortal”. This is not an attempt to celebrate the discomfort in which Americans, in general, and Raymond Allen Davis, in particular, finds himself entangled but writing a letter with such title is to serve a food for thought.
Posted in Have Your Say
By Bilal Zubair
Exclusive Article
On February 8, 2011 the United States rolled out its new National Military Strategy. The document based on the 2010 National Security Strategy (NSS) is the first revision of the National Military Strategy since 2004.
Posted in Articles, Opinions from Pakistan, US Affairs
By Asghar Ali Shad and Muhammad Nawaz Khan
On the occasion of SAARC session involving discussions among foreign secretaries of the member-states, the first week of February 2011 marked a meeting between foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan in Bhutan.
By Ayaz Ahmed Pirzada
The revolt in Libya which began on February 15 is fast reaching its conclusion though the embattled President Muammar Gaddafi has vowed to stay in power at any cost. Government forces and mercenaries attacked protesters with live arms on Friday (Feb 25,2011) killing dozens in and around Tripoli. A pitched battle is raging in the Libyan capital which in the entire country seems to be the only place where Qaddafi’s loyalist have some semblance of control.
Posted in Articles, Muslim World, Opinions from Pakistan
By Yahya Ahmad
The suicide attack in Khar, Bajaur Agency, on the 24th of December, 2010, killed at least 43 people, while injuring over a hundred. The suicide attack took place at a World Food Program distribution center, where people displaced from fighting and floods, had gathered to receive supplies. The attacker was identified as a women and Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) took responsibility of the incident.
Posted in Articles, Opinions from Pakistan, Social Issues
By Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan
Exclusive Article
Tripartite talks between Pakistan, US and Afghanistan, regarding the security and stability in Afghanistan, were primarily scheduled to be held in Washington, from 23-25 February, 2011.
By Ikramullah
Let us stop making the present political confusion worse confounded by preaching the philosophy of national reconciliation. PML-N has finally decided to part ways with PPP. As a first step towards implementing the new strategy,it has decided to drop the PPP ministers from the Punjab Assembly. This amounts to the formal burial of the much trumpeted Charter of Democracy (COD), as both parties continue to blame the other party for its demise.
By Khalid Iqbal
The contemporary world has witnessed new heights of coercive diplomacy. A public statement by President Barack Obama declaring Raymond Davis a diplomat and asking Pakistan for his repatriation was overkill; indeed it was a diplomatic faux pas. The American media was forbidden to mention the killer’s connection withthe CIA; therefore, the ‘free and fair’ media faithfully obliged the government, until the Pakistani paper The Nation spilled the beans, followed by the British media.
By Dr Haider Shah
The health indicators of the Pakistan economy have not been encouraging ever since signs of ill health became evident in 2007. Economic woes are, however, meshed with other socio-political problems of all sorts. On top of that, Pakistan has also been unlucky in experiencing both natural and man-made disasters.
By Sikander Amani
We have all read the (or at least one) story of partition. We have all read about how it came about — the Lahore Resolution, the growing tensions between the Muslim League and Congress, the instrumentalisation by both of their respective constituencies, the personal enmity between Jinnah and Nehru, especially after the failure of the Cabinet Mission Plan, the cowardice and outright partiality of the British, and in particular of their last Viceroy, Mountbatten.
Posted in Articles, History, Opinions from Pakistan
