Pakistan’s leading militants have called on fighters to honor an agreement not to attack the Pakistani military in the most important sanctuary for the Taliban and al-Qaida along the Afghan border. Militants have long used the North Waziristan tribal area as a base to attack U.S.-led forces in neighboring Afghanistan. American officials have accused Pakistan [...]

Kashif. N. Chaudary Imran Khan is Pakistan’s sports superstar. His philanthropy is also admirable. This, however, does not mean I should not exercise my right to criticize Khan’s politics. Sadly,Imran Khan’s followers do not take criticism all that well. Anyone who calls him Taliban Khan is quickly ascribed a set of views and labeled a [...]

Mr. pro Taliban and Anti-Zionist is going for the sixer, telling an audience in Swabi about the Tsunami of change he will bring in to Pakistan. He is out of his mind, being idealist and hoping to extradite USA powers and players from the country. What someone needs to tell him is the PPP and [...]

The United States (US) Committee on Foreign Affairs is set to convene a congressional hearing on Wednesday (February 8), for an exclusive discussion on Balochistan. The extraordinary event has generated great interest among followers of Pakistan-US relations, as the allies’ mutual relationship seems to be deteriorating. The powerful House of Representatives committee oversees America’s foreign assistance [...]

http://www.facebook.com/nadeemmalik NADEEM MALIK Do You Think President Asif Zardari Should Enjoy Blanket Immunity? A Gallup poll shows 38% Pakistanis do not know about the President’s immunity, 37% believe that the President enjoys NO immunity whereas 25% believe that the President enjoys immunity provided to him by the constitution. NADEEM MALIK وزیراعظم سوئس عدالت کو خط [...]

The PTI leader is back to blaming everyone but himself over deaths caused in hospitals as a result of questionable drugs. He is backed my the ISI and Taliban, how dare he pretend to care over the deaths of innocents! Thank goodness his Facebook pages were hacked, Mr Khan your change is not something we [...]

By Nancy Birdall for Foreign Policy In the January/February 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs, Stanford political scientist Stephen Krasner claims that “current U.S. policy toward Pakistan has failed” and recommends that the United States take a radically different approach: credibly threaten to sever all forms of cooperation, including all U.S. aid – military and civilian [...]

There is a conventional wisdom out there — parroted often by the likes of Imran Khan — that the Taliban and their local affiliates act the way they do because they are solely and exclusively motivated by the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan, as well as Pakistan’s alliance with the U.S. By this logic, [...]

Image for representative purpose – Agencies Pakistani warplanes pounded militant hideouts in the northwestern tribal area before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least 20 Taliban insurgents, security officials said. The jets targeted hideouts in the tribal Orakzai district and at least four compounds were hit, they said, in the latest surge of fighting between government [...]

Political Future of Pervez Musharraf Brought to you by: Is there any political future for Musharaf in Pakistan? After several weeks of promises and plans at the waning end of 2011 and the new weeks of 2012, Pervez Musharraf cancelled what he had been hoping would be another coup; a successful return to Pakistan. The [...]

By Alee Paul I never want to criticize anything.  We the people beautifully give a comprehensive solution to the problems, and even the way we identify problem that jolts me. Ask anybody over a cup of tea what is this nation’s biggest problem, everybody will close argument by wrapping it in one word, Education, poverty, bureaucracy and [...]

As Reported by The BBC The Taliban in Afghanistan are being directly assisted by Pakistani security services, according to a secret Nato report seen by the BBC. The leaked report, derived from thousands of interrogations, claims the Taliban remain defiant and have wide support among the Afghan people. It alleges that Pakistan knows the locations [...]

CASUALTIES: 15 is the number of troops who were wounded while defending the Jogi check-post. PHOTO: AFP/FILE PESHAWAR:  Security forces repulsed a major Taliban attack on a strategic check-post in the Kurram tribal region, triggering bloody clashes that left 43 people, among them eight troops, dead and dozens others wounded, the military said on Tuesday. [...]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday acknowledged “tactical advantages” to US drone strikes on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, but appeared to shrug off the unexpected confirmation by Washington of attacks on its soil. The remarks from Pakistan’s foreign ministry came as President Barack Obama confirmed for the first time that drone aircraft had targeted militants in Pakistan’s [...]