PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER A few days back, Chaudhry Aslam khan, the SSP CID Karachi said in an interview with a private TV channel that unless courts give a legal authenticity to the evidence of the police officials particularly in cases of terrorism, the giant of terrorism cannot be chained. It is a common complaint that [...]

http://www.awaztoday.com/playshow/19797/Islamabad-Tonight-9th-February-2012.aspx http://www.zemtv.com/2012/02/09/islamabad-tonight-9th-february-2012-latest/ http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/f247/islamabad-tonight-nadeem-malik-9th-february-2012-a-263612/ http://www.pakistanherald.com/Program/Islamabad-Tonight-February-09-2012-Nadeem-Malik-9635 ISLAMABAD TONIGHT WITH NADEEM MALIK 09-02-2012 TOPIC- POLITICAL SITUATION OF THE COUNTRY GUESTS- KHURRUM DASTGIR KHAN, BABAR SATTAR, NAYYAR BUKHARI, ANSAR ABBASI, MOEED YOUSUF KHURRUM DASTGIR KHAN OF PML-N said that executive of Pakistan is not abiding by the resolutions of the parliament or the decisions of the Supreme Court. He [...]

Mere days after sobering official ceremonies marked the end of the U.S. mission in Iraq, America’s most dubious partner – Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki – charged his Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi with aiding and abetting terrorism and sought to remove his Deputy Prime Minister, Saleh al-Mutlaq from office. In short order, sectarian violence spread [...]

One thing that bothers me about how Pakistan conducts its foreign policy is how narrowly it is focused on a few states. The four horsemen of Pakistan’s foreign policy are: the U.S., China, Saudi Arabia, and India. These states take an overwhelming and disproportionate level of our government’s interest, time, money, effort. Almost everything we [...]

LAHORE: As Pakistan strives to promote a ‘soft image’ of the country despite being mired in terrorism, the Punjab government took an innovative step in this direction by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google for promoting the province’s rich heritage on the internet. A statement issued by the public relations arm of the Government [...]

By Sajjad Shaukat US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who visited Islamabad on October 20 this year, succeeded in reducing the heat in Pak-US relationship, but she emphasised on Pakistan to “remove safe havens of militants in FATA and the continuing threats across the border to Afghans.” But on October 23, during a CNN interview, [...]

Mia Bloom is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and International Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her focus is on terrorism through her fellowship at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism and her work specializes in Middle Eastern conflicts as well as rape in war. Mia’s studies have been featured on numerous [...]

By Zaheerul Hassan Media is an instrument of war and peace, which is being exercised by every nations to mould the situations for the purpose of acquiring desired results, assist in revisions and making Foreign Policy, breaking status quo, making/changing the opinion of masses and protecting national and international interests. In regard to Pakistani media, [...]

Since 1990, planned and organized secessionist-terrorism has brutalized Kashmir, the valley of peace and exquisite beauty. Systematic efforts have been made to destroy its syncretic culture, traditions, and heritage, by an orgy of mindless violence fueled by religious fanaticism and extremism, aided and abetted from across India’s borders. Terrorism has taken the lives of more [...]

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 [...]

Shaukat Masood Zafar The vision of our founding fathers of a progressive, moderate and democratic nation committed to development of a modern Islamic state is now badly at stake. A deliberate attempt is underway in the West to defame Pakistan by questioning its credibility in war on terror. Slamming Islam and tracking Muslims have become [...]

If you thought that booking MNP misuse under terrorism act was enough of stupity from Senator Rehman you haven’t seen what brains we have in the opposition. Senator Pervez Rasheed of PML(N) who questioned the upcoming 3G and plus License Auctions process and most importantly the base price shared his views recently in Geo TVs [...]

2,500 years ago the warrior philosopher Sun Zsu said: “The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road to safety or to ruin. Therefore, it is a subject that must be thoroughly studied.” I start out with a quote from the old guy [...]

After the Nuclear Threat Initiative released its Nuclear Materials Security Index, the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis in New Delhi posted a rebuke of sorts by Dr. Ch. Viyyanna Sastry, a Research Fellow, and Rajiv Nayan, a Senior Research Associate, both at the IDSA. In it, Sastry and Nayan allege that the NTI index [...]